Example sentences of "[noun] of [pron] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ HERE is the new Shorter Oxford Dictionary of which the first thing that can be said with confidence is that if you drop it on your foot you will never walk unaided again ’ — Commentator Bernard Levin . |
| 2 | Yet there are certain advantages with the modern orchestra ; the violin section , for example , which often fails in an ‘ authentic ’ set-up to do justice to the importance of what the first violins , in particular , have to say . |
| 3 | It was suggested that as principal it had knowledge of whatever the first bank did as its agent . |
| 4 | I did n't take much notice of it the first few years after I left school , but now I 've been gone , what , fifteen years or so , I find quite a lot of interest in what 's happened . |
| 5 | On the face of it the first SAS operation had been a total disaster . |