Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] the first [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This became the first in a long line of medieval whodunnits featuring an unusual detective , a 12th-century Benedictine monk named Brother Cadfael : when he is n't tending his herb garden , Cadfael is using his knowledge to solve a seemingly endless series of murders and mysterious disappearances . |
| 2 | It is easier to define the first of these terms and lay out the implications of its consideration , than it is to deal with civil society per se or its relation to the state . |
| 3 | Karelia on Aug. 10 became the first of the Soviet Union 's 20 autonomous Soviet Socialist republics ( ASSRs ) to issue a sovereignty declaration . |
| 4 | He will forsake china production schedules for fine tuning the first of many travel itineraries planned for ‘ my new career of retirement ’ , as he put it . |
| 5 | Just before the Obair Report appeared we all heard the first of many announcements about the British government 's Making Belfast Work policy . |
| 6 | Todor Zhivkov on Feb. 25 became the first of Eastern Europe 's ousted communist leaders to go on public trial , 14 months after the " palace coup " which had ended his 35 years in power . |
| 7 | It is very important to distinguish the first from the subsequent bleeding episodes because associated mortality is different and this may lead to biases in studies when pooling the two types of episodes . |
| 8 | Er to answer the first answer the first of your two questions , erm , the greenbelt as defined in the greenbelt local plan is hard up , in many respects , against the edge of the built up area , excluding allocated sites , allocations above that within the Southern Ryedale area would in fact require redrawing green in a green belt boundaries . |
| 9 | e.g. fluvial and glacial exemplify the first of these stages , while deltas represent a second stage division of the former . |
| 10 | ‘ The 17m prototype , FAB 3 , is undergoing the most rigorous sea trials which will continue until we can be completely satisfied that she is in every way suitable to become the first of a new generation of fast All-weather lifeboats . |
| 11 | That ended the first on my piano . |
| 12 | In 1653 came the first of three books of Ayres and Dialogues by Henry Lawes ; the others followed in 1655 and 1658 , and beside them Playford 's Breefe Introduction to the Skill of Musick for Song and Viol ( 1654 ) and instrumental music . |
| 13 | The early 1860s saw the first of a whole series of underground organizations designed to spread populist propaganda and prepare for revolutionary action against the regime . |