Example sentences of "[noun pl] of the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which is more than can be said of the successors of the first Labour government , elected just when the Elmhirsts arrived at the bankrupt farms and derelict buildings of Dartington . |
| 2 | What the searchers ‘ found ’ were the papal letters mentioned by Lanfranc in 1072 , fortified with forged additions granting the primacy in perpetuity to the successors of the first archbishop of Canterbury . |
| 3 | What is less easy to explain is that all of these words seem to have been created as phonetic imitations of the first meaningful sound uttered by many babies . |
| 4 | It is an interesting reflection of the diversity of views and values in school that one of the readers of the first draft of this book commented on this letter : ‘ How sentimental ! |
| 5 | His address to the prospective readers of the first issue of Kingston 's Magazine in 1859 is significant : |
| 6 | Many readers of the first edition of The Birmingham Magazine have asked for more information about current courses ran by the University . |
| 7 | These have been possible because the portraits of Roman emperors of the first two centuries AD were , for the most part , strongly individualised and because portraits in the round have survived in large numbers — there are in some cases well over a hundred examples for each emperor . |
| 8 | The survival of the Stewart line now hung by the thread of a baby 's life , and not surprisingly Mary 's health was one of the major worries of the first year of the reign . |
| 9 | ‘ It sounds as if you want me to have a contract drawn up for signature by the parties of the first part . ’ |
| 10 | The tax remissions of the first half of the fifteenth century show that some of the villages which later disappeared were granted substantial reliefs , although this was not universal . |
| 11 | One of the attractions of the first book had been Minton 's delight in the shape of things — fish , bowls , tureens , vegetables , fruit , octopus , squid and elaborate sweets . |
| 12 | The backs of the heads of the first and second officer and engineer flashed on the video screens . |
| 13 | ( f ) Hold the card at about the same level as your shoulder , ie above the heads of the first row of students . |
| 14 | Authors of the first 100 replies received will be invited as guests to the forum on 1 October at the Savoy , London . |
| 15 | They are the authors of the first of five volumes which are expected to appear in quick succession in the next eighteen months and catalogue the complete work of Magritte , his paintings , collages , gouaches , drawings , objects and sculpture , but exclude his designs for advertising posters and other commercial activities . |
| 16 | The news for United 's vast following is less euphoric ; a subdued crowd of 26,698 , the backlash to the Derby defeat , saw them fail to add to the three goals of the first leg . |
| 17 | The goals of the first transition phase , the first series of internal tariff reductions and measures designed to reduce the differences in the external tariffs of the Six , had been achieved without too much hardship or dispute , and the Commission was looking forward with confidence to shortening the planned duration of the second transition phase . |
| 18 | Many of the immigrants were supporters of the First and Second Internationals and had considerable experience in the labour movements of their native countries . |
| 19 | The others followed close on the heels of the first . |
| 20 | It is hard to see how a minute understanding of the development of the Greek language from Homer to Demosthenes , or of the keys used by Brahms in the second subjects of the first movements of his sonatas can be fitted into the usual pattern of socially useful knowledge . |
| 21 | The subjects of the first year of this proposed course would be anatomy , physiology , conformation and external diseases ; in the second year , surgery , materia medica , pharmacy and botany as relating to veterinary medicine ; in the third year , pathology , epizootic diseases , treatment and prevention of disease , hospital practice and shoeing . |
| 22 | Nonetheless , theirs are the coarsest images of the first generation of LC TVs . |
| 23 | The committee was still discussing its response to crucial aspects of the first inspection when the next inspection process commenced in May this year . |
| 24 | They see the ‘ cunning ’ of the serpent in the Garden of Eden as the wiles of the first intellectual ( probably a theologian ) . |
| 25 | The tree was gleaming green with new foliage that had broken out from the charred branches of the first encounter between the English and the islanders . |
| 26 | The British commander , Brigadier Andrew Cumming , 45 , said : ‘ This is a great boost for morale as we enter the last few furlongs of the first Operation Grapple tour . ’ |
| 27 | There are few survivors of the first Holocaust because the Turks tried to kill them all and because age has now claimed most of the rest . |
| 28 | The founder and leader of the BUF , Sir Oswald Mosley , was a self-conscious political spokesman for the ‘ lost generation ’ and the survivors of the first World War . |
| 29 | As the movement and the significance of British fascism owed so much to Sir Oswald Mosley , and as he increasingly came to see himself as the political spokesman for the lost generation and the survivors of the First World War , it is the impact of that event I want to examine first . |
| 30 | Every day this week you can collect pictures of the first eight Grands Prix that Mansell won . |