Example sentences of "of first " in BNC.
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| 1 | A vital source of first hand information is generated by the many missions and research trips Amnesty sends to countries each year for on-the-spot investigations and to observe trials , meet prisoners and talk to government officials . |
| 2 | Folly of last words as of first , wrote Harsnet . |
| 3 | And this difference between them and such initially sympathetic Englishmen as Hewlett and Newbolt went very deep ; for ultimately it meant that , when the question arose whether the artist 's first responsibility was to his art ( his trade ) or to his society , Pound and Lewis and Ford would opt for the first alternative , Hewlett and Newbolt for the second — as indeed we soon see them doing when both of them answer the call of First World War patriotism by writing moralebuilding poems and stories . |
| 4 | The cost of first and second-class letters rises 1p today to 20p and 15p respectively . |
| 5 | With one round still to play in the Interpolis tournament in Tilburg , Holland , he is already sure of first place . |
| 6 | There is a tradition here , dating back to the days of ‘ Go-Go County ’ , of First Division embarrassment if not failure but Rangers survived the early onslaught and , before an all-ticket 5,997 crowd on a clear mild night , emerged as worthy winners on aggregate after a goalless draw . |
| 7 | LIN , which last month entered into a merger agreement with Bell South in an attempt to repel McCaw , has the right of first refusal on Metromedia 's stake , which would pre-empt the deal with McCaw . |
| 8 | Atkinson , matching his attacking partner goal for goal , belted in the fourth from 20 yards , and the only question remaining after the most one-sided of first halves was which of them would be first to his hat trick . |
| 9 | In my own university , for instance , the number of first year students of biology that we have been able to accept this year has been entirely constrained not by the quality of our applicants but the physical size of our teaching laboratories . |
| 10 | McCaw last week agreed to pay $1.9bn for Metromedia 's half of the licence , but that deal in turn hinged on whether LIN took up its right of first refusal on Metromedia 's stake . |
| 11 | As part of the deal he gave Wildenstein 's the right of first refusal on 15 of his paintings should his heirs seek to sell them . |
| 12 | Despite this , VP Singh 's enemies kept the issue alive with the help of George Maclean , a former managing director of First Trust . |
| 13 | All this means that , for Millett , Genet is ‘ the only living male writer of first class literary gifts to have transcended the sexual myths of our era ’ ( p. 22 ) . |
| 14 | Thus to have application to race the theories of Hegel and Freud must undergo radical critique and transformation ; with some of Freud 's followers , it is even the case of first having to discredit an overtly racist psychiatry ( see e.g. Black Skin , 63 , 138 , 151 — 2 , 220 ; Wretched of the Earth , 240 — 50 ) . |
| 15 | Ayrton Senna struck a cautiously conciliatory note in Phoenix last Thursday on the eve of first practice for the opening F1 race of the year . |
| 16 | The crews are mostly ‘ medical assistants , ’ which means possessing more than just a knowledge of first aid . |
| 17 | Diplomatic sources say that other South-east Asian countries which , like Hong Kong , have offered a port of first asylum to the fleeing Vietnamese , are closely watching the mandatory repatriation programme . |
| 18 | ‘ Nicholas Ridley ( far right ) hails opening of first Lada plant in Britain as beginning of renaissance of British industry . ’ |
| 19 | The situation is not dissimilar to that in England during the years of austerity in the Forties , when a number of First Division players were tempted to play in Bogota . |
| 20 | The Knoyle family were Roman Catholic , and strong supporters of first the Cavalier and then the Jacobite causes . |
| 21 | Ken Pitt : I have a very clear memory of first meeting David . |
| 22 | Equally puzzling is Santander 's promise not to take majority control of First Fidelity . |
| 23 | The Chancellor gradually retired from acting as judge of first instance , and reserved himself for the Court of Appeal in Chancery and for the House of Lords . |
| 24 | Recent legislation has had some effect in keeping rents within reasonable bounds , and in providing security of tenure for tenants against landlords ; and under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 many residential tenants now have a right of first refusal where the landlord proposes to dispose of his interest in the property . |
| 25 | Assuming sows and gilts remain in the service house until after the point of first return then there is a total requirement of 14 paddocks each containing two huts capable of holding eight to nine sows each . |
| 26 | Ari was exhausted by the sheer weight of first impressions of the city . |
| 27 | The telephone can be rather cold as a method of first contact , but very useful if it is used in conjunction with a letter or a visit . |
| 28 | Bruno Walter was there and afterwards I was offered the post of first kapellmeister ; but I had to say , frankly I am better off in Aachen . |
| 29 | It was not until 1963 that a reformist element was able to make itself heard , with the election to the position of first secretary of the Slovak party of Alexander Dubček . |
| 30 | The nature or our existence hides from us the knowledge of first beginnings which are born of the Nothing ; and the littleness of our being conceals from us the sight of the Infinite . |