Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [noun] the first " in BNC.
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1 | The 1909 Royal Commission on the Poor Laws found that for widows the first recommendation of 1871 was generally observed , some Boards of Guardians going further and insisting that the widow maintain two children by herself before any relief was given , while others refused relief to healthy able-bodied widows no matter how many children they had . |
2 | However the ETUC had begun to press the need for the development of an active social policy in the late 1960s , and in response the first Quadripartite Conference , involving representatives of the Commission , Ministers of Labour , employers and employees , was held in Luxembourg in 1970 . |
3 | In July 1992 , the Government finally produced its White Paper ‘ New Opportunities for the Railways ’ and in October the first consultation document ‘ The Franchising of Passenger Rail Services ’ appeared . |
4 | By September , I had been joined by a director of studies and in November the first draft of a Development Plan for Banbury was published . |
5 | The fact that the UK launch presentation attracted around 260 people from the Ministry of Defence and around 10 from commerce indicates the potential market , and in fact the first customers for the product come from the military . |
6 | The fact that the UK launch presentation attracted around 260 people from the Ministry of Defence and around 10 from commerce indicates the potential market , and in fact the first customers for the product come from the military . |
7 | Others can make a judgement that you should be spending less than that , and in fact the first budget we presented yesterday was at the level of three hundred and eleven point five million , which is further below the capped level . |
8 | In his time the year was usually indicated by the name of an official , for example at Athens the first archon and at Sparta the first ephor . |
9 | A meeting was set up in Stockton the same month , they decided to organise their own Meet in Richmond and by June the first ever North Yorkshire and South Durham Cyclists ' Meet was held . |
10 | But from October the first things should change . |
11 | There had been 169 executions in US states since the death penalty was restored by the Supreme Court in 1976 , most of them in conservative Southern states , but on April 6 Arizona had carried out its first execution for 29 years , while in March the first execution in Delaware since 1946 had been implemented . |
12 | These are given for illustration only , since in practice the first would almost certainly be classified under 624.151 along with all the other books on foundation soils and engineering geology . |