Example sentences of "[pron] the first [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was now so cosmopolitan that Italian opera was composed by Handel , Hasse , Gluck ( until he defected to French opera , of which the first great master , Lully , had been a native of Italy ) , Haydn and , greatest of all , Mozart . |
| 2 | Some of the early sociologists regarded warfare as the means by which the first great step in social development — the expansion of human societies — was accomplished , while others have seen it as the principal factor in the formation of the state itself.4 It is evident that warfare has continued to be an important factor in these processes of expansion and consolidation of state power . |
| 3 | There is some reason to doubt that all the discrepancies can be eliminated by taking account of the short-term/long-term distinction : Lantz 's ( 1973 ) demonstration of superior latent inhibition with spaced trials came from a procedure in which the first conditioning trial followed the last trial of pre-exposure ; James ' ( 1971 ) demonstration of perfect retention used , in training , the interstimulus intervals typical of studies of short-term habituation . |
| 4 | The mean age of the patients was 48 years ( SD 13 years ) and the mean age at which the first duodenal ulcer had been diagnosed was 36 ( SD 13 ) years with a mean disease duration of 12 ( SD 10 ) years and 3 ( SD 2 ) ulcer relapses during the previous two years . |
| 5 | Of this amount , SDR24,400,000 ( $32,200,000 ) would be available under the first annual arrangement , of which the first semiannual loan of SDR9,150,000 ( $12,100,000 ) was made available for disbursement on June 15 , 1990 . |
| 6 | A similar effect is seen with the sequence ( AT ) 15 GG(AT) 6 ( Figure 2f ) in which the first ApT site on the 5'-side of the central GG is cut less well than most of the other ApT sites . |
| 7 | So it was that the agreement on which the first National Government was formed was ignored by the King , who granted a dissolution under conditions which broke both the letter and the spirit of the agreement . |
| 8 | Its the first new release of the expert system for more than two years and Perez promises updated versions every twelve months from now on . |
| 9 | Colin McRae and the prodrive team from Banbury … in the New Zealand rally they won by just 27 seconds … its the first British win in the championship since 1976 … and the first ever abroad … |
| 10 | Colin McRae and the prodrive team from Banbury … in the New Zealand rally they won by just 27 seconds … its the first British win in the championship since 1976 … and the first ever abroad … |
| 11 | It now reckons its the first national distribution company to get Part One accreditation . |
| 12 | ‘ I trust you 'll have no objections if I use whatever influence I have with the airlines to get you the first available seat ? ’ |
| 13 | I would be grateful if you could confirm your acceptance of this proposal , and I will take necessary steps here to pay you the first overseas royalty . |
| 14 | At Cannington itself the first informal session was so full that the inquiry organizers told us afterwards they were concerned that the balcony might not be able to sustain the weight . |
| 15 | It was announced at the same time that the UK Prime Minister , John Major , would travel to Beijing to sign the agreement , making him the first Western head of government to visit China since the crushing of the pro-democracy movement in June 1989 . |
| 16 | It was 10.35 and Brenda Pridmore , at the reception desk at the rear of the main hall of Hoggatt 's Laboratory , watched wide-eyed while Inspector Blakelock drew to-yards him the first labelled bag of exhibits from the clunch pit murder . |
| 17 | His reward came in July 1655 when Carvajal and his two sons were endenizened , thus making him the first English Jew , at least since the expulsion in 1290 . |
| 18 | He said afterwards that he had understood Terry had come out just to allow him to reach his goal , but it was an unfortunate end to a splendid innings , which made him the first English batsman since Barrington in 1967 to score three consecutive centuries in a series . |
| 19 | ( George 's conviction made him the first high-ranking member of the CIA ever to be convicted of felony offences while conducting official duties . ) |
| 20 | I well remember the long watches of the night when I and my baby struggled to overcome a physical incapability on my part , and I can not begin to tell you the relief on both sides when I strode out of the house , bought the largest tin of baby food I could find , and gave her the first square meal she had had since birth . |
| 21 | IBM Corp 's Distributed Relational Database Architecture is starting to pick up acolytes , and Informix Software Inc , Menlo Park has announced Informix-Gateway with DRDA , claiming that this makes it the first major Unix database vendor fully to support the IBM architecture . |
| 22 | IBM Corp 's Distributed Relational Database Architecture is starting to pick up acolytes , and Informix Software Inc , Menlo Park has announced Informix-Gateway with DRDA , claiming that this makes it the first major Unix database vendor fully to support the IBM architecture . |
| 23 | I remember waking with my face in it the first whole night we spent together . |
| 24 | Scotts Valley , California-based Microport Inc 's implementation of Unix System V.4 now supports Corollary Inc 's multiprocessor and XM multiprocessor hardware designs , saying it makes it the first independent software vendor to provide a shrink-wrapped multiprocessing version of the operating system . |
| 25 | Scotts Valley , California-based Microport Inc 's System V.4 now supports Corollary Inc 's multiprocessor and XM multiprocessor hardware designs , making it the first independent software vendor to provide a shrinkwrapped multiprocessing version of Unix SVR4 . |
| 26 | We had no way of knowing it , but those messages were to bring us the first concrete news of John for eighteen months . |
| 27 | For many years we sought access to him and the inner sanctum of his medieval palace , until in 1981 he finally gave us the first filmed interview ever granted by one of his line . |