Example sentences of "[adj] the first [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Was this the first signs of a coalition in the making ?
2 Was this the first signs of narcissism ?
3 On Nov. 10-13 the first elements of the UN Advance Mission in Cambodia ( UNAMIC ) arrived in the country .
4 At the beginning of 1812 the first attacks on shearing frames by the Yorkshire croppers began .
5 Since , typically , unc it follows that not all the first minors of unc vanish , so that it is simply degenerate .
6 Was it not significant that — even following the Welsh songs and with the Welsh anthem to follow — when Her Royal Highness , The Princess of Wales , was introduced to the teams before the recent Wales versus France international the first lines of God Save the Queen were marred by an outbreak of hissing and booing ?
7 Thus , when in 1970 the first signs of the coming increase in oil prices appeared , France was in a position to decide , for economic and industrial reasons , to have 900-MWe pressurised-water reactors built under Westinghouse licence .
8 In 1951 the first sessions of the Accident Investigation Division of ICAO took place and each member State was entitled to appoint a delegate to the meeting .
9 In both the first stages of the African Mathematics Programmes and the Regional Programmes which followed it , very considerable investment was made in both initial and in-service teacher training and international ‘ Institutes ’ designed to promote a cadre of university staff , teacher trainers and inspectors capable of carrying the momentum of the project .
10 Towards the end of 1990 the first proofs of four 1:250 000 gravity maps were checked .
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