Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] of the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the late 1920s the nationalist government had achieved tariff autonomy and an agreement in principle to give up extraterritoriality , yet enclaves of foreign settlers , foreign interests and foreign troops ( nominally for protection of the first two ) remained . |
| 2 | A different or ‘ variant issue ’ can occur as part of the first edition when , after some copies have already been published , some alteration is made and even another title-page substituted . |
| 3 | The Leviathan was launched in Hamburg in 1913 but was subsequently sent to the United States as part of the First World War reparations , and eventually reached the ship-breaker 's yard in Rosyth in 1983 . |
| 4 | On Dec. 18 , as part of the first round of the CFE talks , the US Defence Department announced proposals to cut US forces by 55,000 , an increase of 22,000 on Bush 's initial proposals in July 1989 . |
| 5 | It was included as part of the first of the twice-annual Eurobarometer surveys . |
| 6 | The six will give their views as part of the first ever children 's museum of the year competition . |
| 7 | Eight properties have been completed as part of the first renovation phase . |
| 8 | documentation necessary for submission of the first outline course proposals under Batch 1 of the new , operational system ; |
| 9 | After consideration of the first set of results , it would be decided whether to abandon the material or to investigate further . |
| 10 | By May 1990 — after delivery of the first ten sets of the new Mk 4 stock for the East Coast main line — the Great Western will receive an additional HST set and sufficient trailers to make all HST formations 2 + 8 . |
| 11 | As an example of the geographical comparison of normal patterns we can compare the relative incidence of coins of the first two centuries AD in two different areas such as Britain and Italy . |
| 12 | The Act stated that other schemes could be formed from the schedule of twelve by advancing or postponing the day of payment of the first instalment , provided that the first payment was not made sooner than the eleventh day , and that not more than one penny per pound was added to the interest for every thirteen days of such postponement . |
| 13 | Pressnell suggests that only a brilliant speech by Keynes prevented its rejection in the Lords.The loan was damaging to British pride , while among its terms the insistence on sterling convertibility within a year of payment of the first instalment was particularly ominous . |
| 14 | Do so can not be replaced by a ‘ copy ’ of part of the first clause . |
| 15 | These include physical measures of word length and overall word shape ( e.g. details of ascending and descending characters ) , the accuracy of recognition of the first letters of words , and possible feedback from syntactic analysis . |
| 16 | The policy of diversification of the first foreign language should mean an expansion of German and Spanish teaching . |
| 17 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what is the expected date of commissioning of the first Trident nuclear submarine and the expected date of completion of the programme ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 18 | The most dramatic and explosive of these changes was the devastating impact upon the social and political fabric of Europe of the First World War . |
| 19 | The authors have obviously taken note of the thousands of users of the first release to bring you this wonderful educational program . |
| 20 | Thus one has to infer that the second statement here functions as some kind of explanation of the first statement in the passage , so that the failure of oil-bound paints on certain building materials is caused by the reaction of an acid and an alkali . |
| 21 | The centre of curvature of the first section lies above the saddle , whilst the centre of curvature of the second section lies below the saddle . |
| 22 | The general damages for conspiracy and the alternative damages for deceit are claimed to include the following : ( a ) moneys ‘ expended upon the C.M.C. ’ by the plaintiffs after the commencement of the company ; ( b ) legal costs in fighting B.M.T. ; ( c ) the stain and stigma of bankruptcy ; ( d ) loss of earnings by the plaintiffs ; ( e ) the effect upon the health of the first plaintiff ; ( f ) loss of reputation of the first plaintiff ; ( g ) distress and suffering ; ( h ) loss of opportunity to develop the centre ; and ( i ) other consequential loss . |
| 23 | The high level of marking of the first two occurrences ( " Martian " and " Mars ' ) can be explained by their foregrounded status in being located near the beginning of the schema instantiation . |
| 24 | Finally , over the devastated battlefield and the approach roads — the latter rendered quite chaotic by the even more viscous mud of the Woevre , and clogged with the moving gun-teams — it was impossible to bring up enough ammunition to sustain anything like the rate of fire of the first four days . |
| 25 | strong of er the er a number of firemen of the first er out . |
| 26 | The post was offered as somewhat grudging recognition that he had been a signal success as leader of the first European colony in South America , a village called Santa Maria de la Antigua , on the Atlantic coast of the Isthmus . |
| 27 | As head of the first Indian mission in Europe , Pillai laid the groundwork for the development of the Indian Foreign Service . |
| 28 | De Gaulle resigned after two months as head of the first Government of the Fourth Republic — a regime that had 25 governments in 12 years ( 1946–58 ) . |
| 29 | The special envoy of the UN Human Rights Commission , Reynaldo Galindo Pohl , arrived in Iran on Jan. 21 as head of the first UN delegation to visit the country to investigate alleged human rights abuses since the 1979 revolution . |
| 30 | I commend the order to the House to afford continued statutory protection to the very small number of teachers taking up new contracts of employment during any hiatus between the current date of expiry of the 1987 Act and the coming into force of the first pay and conditions order under the 1991 Act . |