Example sentences of "[art] first [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All-party talks began on April 30 on the future of Northern Ireland , the first such meetings since the 1975 Constitutional Convention [ see pp. 27161-63 ] . |
| 2 | The first such coins were made from electrum from the rivers that flowed down from the Troilus Mountains , but advantage was soon taken of the different status in the traditional value system of the gold and silver components to separate them and use them for different denominations . |
| 3 | In 1856 he delivered a comprehensive course of lectures on the teeth at the Edinburgh medical school , the first such lectures to be held in Scotland . |
| 4 | Vietnam and China held talks in Beijing on Oct. 12-17 aimed at settling outstanding border and territorial disputes , the first such talks to be held since the normalization of relations in November 1991 . |
| 5 | The first such claims had been made in 1987 by Ivan Boesky , a United States arbitrageur , during federal investigations into allegations of insider dealing for which he was subsequently imprisoned [ see p. 36017 ] . |
| 6 | One lawyer cited one of the first such cases to be heard in Scotland : ‘ At one point the tribunal took the case by the scruff of the neck and told the claimants to put in their claim within 14 days and gave the other side the same amount of time for their defences . |
| 7 | Three others were imprisoned for life and 18 received lesser terms in two sedition trials , the first such cases under anti-terrorism legislation introduced in July [ see p. 39030 ] . |
| 8 | The first such questions arises over the specific status of the evolutionary sequence which is being put forward . |
| 9 | One of the first such dogs was Mrs Hall 's Stromhall Torrey CH CDex UDex TD . |
| 10 | The first such charts should be done early — at the end of the first day even , and then added to and/or modified day by day as more data is obtained . |
| 11 | They were the first such images she had seen — the Grimauds , like many Nîmois , were staunchly Protestant . |
| 12 | The first such stations were erected in 1978 across the Allan Hills concentration area . |
| 13 | Despite the protests , local elections for the country 's large provincial and metropolitan assemblies went ahead on June 20 as scheduled — the smaller assemblies having been elected in May , the first such elections in more than three decades . |
| 14 | The first such trips in the spring of 1980 represented a victory over the KGB . |
| 15 | One of the first such histories was written by the French writer and philosopher Montesquieu in the middle of the eighteenth century under the title The Spirit of the Laws . |
| 16 | The first such synapses to be identified in the mammalian brain were the excitatory connections made by perforant path fibres onto granule cells of the hippocampus , a cortical structure required for the formation of conscious memories in man . |
| 17 | July the first more members er in , in , in local authorities than er than we 've got in the whole of our union right and we 've got twenty five per cent of our membership in , in local authorities and we 're getting hammered and we 're also getting at the same time privatization , we 're seeing local authorities being broken up and we 're seeing a creation of large numbers of employers . |
| 18 | Had a good view of the first half chances , especially in the early period and despite the opportunities looking promising the finishing was really crap — the kop seemed to feel that we were never going to score and it was a relief that Deano actually managed to put it in the net from 6 yards . |
| 19 | In a research note on MTM , brokers Kleinwort Benson comment that ‘ the short term future of the company is dependent on support from its bankers , which partly explains why the first half figures have been audited . ’ |
| 20 | This was just in the first half kids . |
| 21 | The restructuring in Europe over 1991-92 has paid off , facilitating a better balance of resources and revenues , and producing a £1.2m operating profit , against the first half losses incurred in 1991 and 1992 . |
| 22 | Longman the least seasonally biased of the three struggled to break even in the first half and this removed the normal pattern of Longman 's half-year profits helping to offset the first half losses of the other two businesses but before we get too depressed er I point out that Addison Wesley s sales were up by eleven percent and the size of the first half loss reflects the company 's decision to gear up in advance er , for what we w believe will be a very strong er , second er , half performance . |
| 23 | Well , I think that I bore people endlessly by saying that erm , the first half results are not an indication of the year as a whole because we make the bulk of our pro profits in the second half and you know , that remains , that remains true . |
| 24 | If the engagement lasts several days , like this festival , the first half drags ; I find it a strain to have to talk to people again , I 'm haunted by the inevitably unfinished ‘ finished ’ work at home . |
| 25 | In the first division Oxford United were looking good in the first half thanks to a goal from defender Anton Rogan … |
| 26 | After the first few dates when he had kissed and cuddled her and only touched her breasts through her blouse , he had started slipping his hand inside . |
| 27 | On the first few dates or longer , some young couples are too embarrassed to talk about it , let alone go and do anything about it , and girls do n't want to be seen as anticipating sex and run the risk of being labelled as slags . |
| 28 | You will already be feeling fitter , healthier , and be starting to shed the first few pounds of excess weight . |
| 29 | Those whose entitlement is established , however , will find that not only the first few pounds of some other form of income they have may be disregarded , but the value of a house they own or occupy is not counted as part of their income . |
| 30 | The following year he beat both Sergio Casal and Emilio Sanchez in a 4–1 victory over Spain at Telford and said : ‘ I made a good start in the Cup so the first few matches will always stick in my mind . ’ |