Example sentences of "[prep] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although a tentative date for the first democratic elections has been put forward , we are not yet , not yet there and our campaign for free and fair elections for a democratic constitution needs your urgent support . |
| 2 | Aims were defined , certain statutory regulations laid down and five officers elected for the first three-year term . |
| 3 | With corporal punishment abolished as a judicially imposed sentence , and capital punishment diverted , at least for a time , to a committee room in Whitehall , the decks were cleared for the first real post-war scrutiny of penal policy and methods . |
| 4 | I turn to face Crilly for the first real time . |
| 5 | The sailors face split into a grin for the first tame when Yanto handed him four pound notes . |
| 6 | These two dimensions provided the basis for the first coherent theories about the connections between the peoples of the world . |
| 7 | That shows that both the president 's National Party ( NP ) and the ANC intend to be prepared for the first non-racial elections for a constituent assembly ; it is also a clear sign that both of them are sure that they can convince the other parties that the path they have laid down is the one to follow . |
| 8 | After that , he flies to Paris for a meeting with the French President , then on to Germany for the first historic conference with the heads of all the NATO , European Community and Warsaw Pact countries . |
| 9 | BGS provided much of the logistical support for the first international conference arranged under the auspices of IGCP Project 294 , Very Low Grade Metamorphism , which was held at the University of Manchester , 5–6 July 1990 . |
| 10 | When I came back from Bletchley , I had agreed to tutor for the First Ordinary English class at Edinburgh University a Polish woman considerably older than myself . |
| 11 | Now is the time to prove them right by entering our Christmas literary quiz — and as an added incentive we are offering a bottle of Glenmorangie for the first correct entry drawn out of the hat . |
| 12 | I waited two years for the first substantive response to one article despite reminder letters to the editor . |
| 13 | The system was developed by the Reservoir Quality Prediction team at XTP Sunbury in response to the tough target , set by Breakthrough Management , for the first extended-reach well of the programme : it had to produce at 15,000 barrels-a-day . |
| 14 | We subsequently undertook an additional study of the records of 450 call outs of London police surgeons and are now conducting research for the first comprehensive national study of police surgeons . |
| 15 | Paul Stern , the vice-president of the Vienna Bridge Club , soon invited her to join the Austrian Ladies ' Team , which was preparing for the first European Women 's Teams Championship to be held in Brussels in 1935 . |
| 16 | The firebox and boiler of No. 3822 were equally packed out too , as WSR Driver Dave Williams and Fireman Gareth Winter had the engine just right for the first four-mile assault on Crowcombe Bank . |
| 17 | The forecast for the first relevant future RPI is determined from where RPI o = latest available RPI , = forecast of annual inflation rate , m = number of months between RPI o and RPI 1 . |
| 18 | Accountancy Television has announced the rates for the first annual subscriptions . |
| 19 | MUSIC students in Scotland and London are tuning up for the first annual LASMO Music Festival to be held in the theatre at Haddo House , Aberdeen , on 22 June . |
| 20 | He carries the Staff of the Patriarchs made for the first Supreme Patriarch Volans by the warrior mage Fredrick von Tarnus after the Great War against Chaos . |
| 21 | For all that , had she been right just to abandon him pitilessly for the first dashing knight to Pass her way ? |
| 22 | He is available for the first working party meeting on Monday 18th January , and I suggest it is held in Aberystwyth at 2pm . |
| 23 | This work resulted in a list of buildings which formed the basis for the first systematic protection established by the 1944 Town and Country Planning Act . |
| 24 | If you want to make a shape that is straight to the waist , then enter one program for the first straight section and knit to the instruction for cast off . |
| 25 | The world 's governments will meet in Rome this December for the first global food conference for nearly 20 years , and it is hoped that it will produce the nutritional blueprint for the next century . |
| 26 | The fact that I had not done so put me too high for the first available field , but with insufficient height for the next one . |
| 27 | Sam , without any hesitation had agreed knowing that to wait for the first available fireman would delay his train 's departure . |
| 28 | When the computer is trying to save a new file to a disc , it looks for the first available fragment of space , writes as much of the new file as will fit , then looks for another available fragment of space , writes a bit more , and so on until all the file is written somewhere on the disc . |
| 29 | The national selectors indicated before England 's unexpected success in the HDM international tournament at The Hague that they wanted to test other members of their squad before the team is announced for the first official internationals of the season , the Four Nation tournament at Crystal Palace in a month 's time . |
| 30 | St Albans wait to hear the draw for the first official European Club Indoor Championship at Amiens in March , when their rivals will include Amsterdam , Holywood ‘ 87 ( Ireland ) , MIM ( Scotland ) , Swansea and Rot-Weiss Cologne . |