Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [coord] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it brought back the memories of bouquets and the first Miss World competition she won way back in 1911 . |
| 2 | There are no clear parallels between these contrasting uses of figures and the first and second instances of sequential affinity ( sections 1.1 and 1.2 , above ) . |
| 3 | His passionate compression , luxuriant sound , and eclectic mixture of Anglo-Saxon , Latinate , and Celtic diction have made him for many readers both the greatest of Victorians and the first of the moderns . |
| 4 | It has an impressive list of collaborators and the first year 's course has been fully subscribed . |
| 5 | Adoption of workplans and the first call for proposals should follow soon after , and first contracts could be signed by November 1991 . |
| 6 | He was the editor of the Review of Churches and the first tour which he organized was in 1893 when he took a party of 450 people to Rome for Easter . |
| 7 | The 1968 Act was to be a short , simple measure , a fresh start , free from technicalities and the first step towards codification of the criminal law . |
| 8 | The growth in fundholding poses problems for negotiations and the first moves in setting up the Grampian Association of Fundholding Practices are under way . |
| 9 | So , gratitude it has to be for the glimpse of a hornbeam 's golden rain of catkin pollen in a sheltered copse where , among primroses and the first bluebells , sorrel shows its delicate pink flowers and ( useful in salads ) triple leaflets , which Saint Patrick used to demonstrate the nature of the Trinity . |