Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [vb -s] the first " in BNC.

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1 In a narrow sense my main interest is the period in which the Kaiser ruled over Germany , which of course includes the First World War .
2 It will be seen that the top line of activities repeats the first stage of the company strategic plan as it affects R&D .
3 The firm of Longman claims the first dust jacket , on Heath 's Keepsake for 1835 .
4 For a valid range of module issues the first version must be less than the last version .
5 For a valid range of module issues the first version must be less than the last version .
6 For a valid range of module issues the first version must be less than the last version .
7 For a valid range of module issues the first version must be less than the last version .
8 For a valid range of module issues the first version must be less than the last version .
9 Thus the Book of Daniel provides the first intimation of that apocalyptic interpretation of contemporary struggles which was to become an ordinary feature of the later rebellions of the Jews against foreign rule .
10 The King James translation of the Book of Genesis renders the first line as In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth , confident that prior to God there was nothing , that Yahweh created the universe ex nihilo .
11 The argument from analogy concedes the first half of this but denies the second , claiming that we have at least some evidence to the contrary .
12 Pivoting in P2/T2 gives the first two rows of P2/T3 .
13 In promotion campaigns the first six games and the last six games are vitally important .
14 TONIGHT The Royal Geographical Society in Kensington hosts the first in a series of lectures to promote the National Trust of Scotland in the south of England .
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