Example sentences of "[conj] the first [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But it soon seemed natural for one man to be held first among equals ; or the first prominent convert in a city , like Stephanas at Corinth ( 1 Cor. 16 : 15–16 ) , might form a community round his household . |
| 2 | Add to that the probability of either Britain 's first black Tory MP , or the first Liberal Democrat gain of election night and it 's easy to see why Cheltenham has grabbed the imagination of the political pundits . |
| 3 | The traditional bloom process was still capable of meeting all needs , for a negligible outlay ; the exotic indirect process had been introduced as an act of state policy simply in order to make cannons , the need for which had been proved by the effectiveness of French artillery — against the English themselves — in the wars of the fifteenth century ; Newbridge , where the first successful gun had been cast in 1509 , was Crown property . |
| 4 | After infection , the egg hatches in the small intestine and the L2 travels to the liver , where the first parasitic moult takes place . |
| 5 | The origins of English Christianity can be found in Glastonbury Abbey , where the first Christian sanctuary in the British Isles was established and where , according to legend , King Arthur was buried . |
| 6 | And Russia is , after all , where the first English joint-stock company , of the sort whose shares we would recognise on the market today , got off the ground . |
| 7 | Robert Olivier suggests that the first tame elephants may have been orphaned calves reared as pets . |
| 8 | Coincidentally , it was in the same year that the first supersonic airliner took flight and the first channel hover-ferry service was inaugurated — quite a year for fast machines — quite rightly dubbed then , as being new ! |
| 9 | In the event , the two sides made heavy weather of them ; it was in Geneva that the first unsuccessful attempt was made , followed by another , no more fruitful , in New York , the two sides ' disagreement extending to their respective versions of what occurred during their talks . |
| 10 | The UN-IAEA commission on Iraq [ see pp. 38165 ; 38211 ] announced on Dec. 11 that the first combined chemical and biological weapons inspections team to Iraq had reported the discovery of chemical bomb-making equipment at a sugar factory in Mosul . |
| 11 | For the rest of the decade they shone only on training sessions and ground maintenance work , and it was not until 1951 , some twenty years after Chapman 's enthusiastic advocacy , that the first official floodlit match was held , between Southampton and Tottenham reserves at the Dell . |
| 12 | Bulmer ( 1987 ) observes that the first official use of the term was in 1957 and was related to the field of mental illness . |
| 13 | It was no coincidence that the first official title of the Free French movement 's executive — a title which de Gaulle had suggested to Churchill as early as July 1940 — was the Conseil de Défense de l'Empire . |
| 14 | Most economists expect that the first real signs of an upturn will not appear until second-quarter figures are available . |
| 15 | will largely be seen after the New Year 's Day holiday so essentially you could still that the first regional survey to have been largely compiled of the results drawn er er from the beginning of this year and , and the , and the , and you know you see some reference in the press release to estimates based o on our survey of manufacturing employment er er for the regions , those figures are consistent with our national figures on , on the trend in manufacturing employment and our short term forecast which as a matter of fact was publ published at the end of last month so results . |
| 16 | This echoed earlier comments by Mandela that the first non-racial government would be a coalition . |
| 17 | Still , there can be no doubt that the first great emigration wave of our period ( 1845–54 ) was essentially a flight from hunger or pressure of population on land , basically in Ireland and Germany , which supplied 80 per cent of all transatlantic migrants in these years . |
| 18 | It is appropriate that the first great English opera of modern times should be so deeply English in tone , and should derive from the art which the English have always excelled at — poetry . |
| 19 | It was in this period , very roughly between 1050 and 1150 , that we can most readily discern the revival of many independent cities ; and it was in the 1150s that the first serious challenge to their independence was mounted by the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa . |
| 20 | It was a tragic irony for the Byzantines , and for Christian Europe , that the first Ottoman incursion into Europe , in 1345 , should have been at the invitation of one of the rulers of Constantinople . |
| 21 | Indeed , evidence already exists that the first meiotic metaphase is as susceptible as the second ( Development in Mammals , vol 1 , p 145 ) . |
| 22 | When her first attempt to sustain a local nursing service failed , she decided that the first essential was a national organization to provide loans , train nurses , and monitor standards . |
| 23 | Though sites around the Scottish coast could be used for any plans by oil companies to adopt the technique for UK waters , he predicted that the first deep-water application of the method would be in the Norwegian sector and Brazilian waters . |
| 24 | Few practical results followed , and it was not until 1889 that the first Technical Instruction Act was passed . |
| 25 | It is a matter of months only before a learned historian unearths evidence which proves that the first sole normande was simply a mixture of fish boiled in a bucket of seawater on board the ship which took William of Normandy to Hastings . |
| 26 | It would be a basic mistake to assume that the first correct answer is the only one that exists , so the scientist will conduct further experiments , trying all the time to prove the hypothesis wrong . |
| 27 | It is unlikely , though , that a bridge existed here in pre-Roman times , since it is usually argued that the first Roman crossing at the famous battle of the Medway took place further upstream towards Maidstone . |
| 28 | THERE WERE fears last night that the first substantial cracks had opened in the facade of the European Community 's ‘ Project 1992 ’ after finance ministers appeared to concede that the deadline for creating a truly seamless marketplace for traders can not be met . |
| 29 | Equally , however , there are respected industry commentators who are certain that the first agreed takeover of a building society is just around the corner . |
| 30 | If it becomes obvious that the first private prison at Wolds , which is to be run by Group 4 , is a success , I hope that the burden on the prison system will be further lightened by the extension of private prison building and private prison management , certainly for remand prisoners as there can be no sensible objection to treating unconvicted prisoners better than convicted prisoners . |