Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] the first of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plans for the first of the Italian journeys had been hatched in Vienna , and Leopold had obtained letters of recommendation from the Emperor , among others . |
| 2 | Ordered , That , at the sitting on Tuesday 4th February , the Motions in the name of Mr Francis Maude relating to Supplementary Estimates 1991-92 and Estimates 1992-93 ( Vote on Account ) may be proceeded with , though opposed , until half-past Eleven o'clock or for one and a half hours after the first of them has been entered upon , whichever is the later , at which time Mr. Speaker shall put the Questions necessary to dispose of them . |
| 3 | Ordered , That , at the sitting on Wednesday 5th February , notwithstanding the provisions of Standing Order No. 14 ( Exempted business ) , the Motions in the name of Mr. Secretary Hunt relating to Local Government Finance ( Wales ) may be proceeded with , though opposed , until half-past Eleven o'clock or the end of a period of one and a half hours after the first of them has been entered upon , whichever is the later , at which time Mr. Speaker shall put the Question necessary to dispose of them ; and those Questions may be decided after the expiry of the time for opposed business . |
| 4 | They are the authors of the first of five volumes which are expected to appear in quick succession in the next eighteen months and catalogue the complete work of Magritte , his paintings , collages , gouaches , drawings , objects and sculpture , but exclude his designs for advertising posters and other commercial activities . |
| 5 | The McCaw wit is as sharp as his memory and , to nobody 's surprise , George was asked to say a few words at the first of many parties to mark Lurgan 's Centenary . |
| 6 | The American Psychiatric Association has chosen eating disorders for the first of its series of detailed practice guidelines , derived from the literature and from a consensus of expert reviewers , to assist doctors in clinical decision making . |
| 7 | But I did also say to Mrs , that a new head would be appointed to take the imports from the first of September , that it might be better to discuss it with them after I 've discussed with Miss . |
| 8 | With players like Stephen Martin , Kenny Morris , Billy McConnell , Alan Roper , Geoff Clarke , Stephen Smyrl and Martin Deery all sidelined for various reasons , it seemed that Holywood would n't seriously test the visitors in the first of their three weekend games against leading Ulster opposition . |
| 9 | The audience were in their seats for the first of the two evening performances . |
| 10 | And , more importantly were to reveal a grossly unbalanced population , both in sex and age distribution , presaging problems which are with us still And yet , just six years after the first of the emigrant liners sailed from Stornoway , the social value of the croft was demonstrated in the most dramatic way possible . |
| 11 | You will understand then something of the climate prevailing around Darlington Hall by the time of my father 's fall in front of the summerhouse — this occurring as it did just two weeks before the first of the conference guests were likely to arrive — and what I mean when I say there was little room for any ‘ beating about the bush ’ . |
| 12 | Amazonas is the earliest score here : it dates from 1917 , five years before the first of Villa-Lobos 's sojourns in Paris , and it was there , in 1929 , that Amazonas was first performed . |
| 13 | Using Bury as a ‘ cross-cut ’ , we ensure we are over our ‘ line ’ from a readily identifiable series of sharp bends on the first of those roads , and the pattern of minor roads leading off it ( O ) , later by the pattern of the cross-roads beneath us on the A134 ( P ) plus the twin power-lines . |
| 14 | Guests on the first of what Sandra hopes will be a series of specials were Tom and Roseanne Arnold , Tom Jones , ‘ a bunch of supermodels ’ , and a drag queen called Lipsynca . |
| 15 | The situation there is that the , there 're , if you have double rooms as doubles then there would be , we do have a relatively low occupancy but the committee had decided to move towards double rooms being used as single occupancy only and on the , I 've got the latest figures for the first of January in front of me just by ch really just by chance |
| 16 | As might be expected , it is the possibility of this absolute otherness , and the ability to excise all violence in the relation with it , which Derrida questions in the first of his discussions of Levinas . |
| 17 | I mean , we can , we can start by we I mean we can get people set up for doing things from the first of March ca n't we ? |
| 18 | Japan Computer Corp says it will start marketing three R3000a-based X terminals on the first of September , and expects to sell 9,000 units in the first 12 months of sales : The top-of-the-line Global XC20 includes a 20-inch colour screen , the XC17 a 17-inch colour screen and the low-end XG a 17-inch gray-scale monitor . |
| 19 | No transfers fell under the defective provisions , and the amendments in the first of the 1993 Finance Bills will be effective from 17 July 1992 . |
| 20 | The Provos in the first of several warnings said the device had a 20-minute timer . |
| 21 | And do your exams on the first of our work in June . |
| 22 | Six people ( five Iraqis and a Jordanian ) were on May 19 sentenced by a martial law tribunal to prison terms of up to 15 years , having been convicted of collaboration with the Iraqi occupation forces in the first of a series of war trials [ see p. 38166 ] . |
| 23 | There were ecstatic and emotional scenes at the first of NME 's ‘ Viva Eight ’ gigs in conjunction with the Spastics Society at London 's Town & Country Club on Tuesday night , when headliner Nick Cave assembled the surviving members of his legendary former line-up for a short set that comprised the classics ‘ Dead Joe ’ , ‘ Wild World ’ and ‘ Nick The Stripper ’ . |
| 24 | Spencer coined the term ‘ survival of the fittest ’ and has been seen by some historians as the first of the ‘ social Darwinists ’ . |
| 25 | Their most ancient forebears were connections of the echinoderms , but their cousins , much more unexpectedly , became the ancestors of the first of the backboned animals , the vertebrates . |
| 26 | He looked no happier when the Kent innings resumed , playing and missing several times before getting a touch to a magnificent Marshall delivery and providing Bobby Parks with the first of two catches . |
| 27 | The Prophet sprinted from the alley exit scant seconds before the first of the police cars roared out of the fog and screeched to a halt at the dark gap he had just left . |
| 28 | Four Australians , for example , above a road to Three Spurs and halfway Up a steep hillside , once knocked out most of the men in the first of two trucks passing below the patrol . |
| 29 | Plain sailing YACHTING : New Zealand beat Japan 's Nippon by one minute 43 seconds in the first of the America 's Cup challengers ' semi-finals off San Diego , California . |
| 30 | Half the fleet had arrived by last night , including the joint services yacht Satquote British Defender , which was beaten for eighth place by only 37 minutes by the first of the three Finnish challengers , Martela OF . |