Example sentences of "[noun sg] the first [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this level the first of the two chords is often chord V of a minor key , rather than chord I. The dénouement of Tancrè de contains three examples , each of which accompanies an allusion to Clorinda 's fate . |
| 2 | The ceremony at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum was for the presentation of an old Spitfire that had been hauled out of an English lake and identified as belonging to 71 Squadron the first of the Eagle squadrons formed from American volunteers back in 1940 . |
| 3 | Sunderland ultimately stole the spotlight with their cup final appearance the first by a club from the region since Liverpool licked Newcastle 3–0 in 1974 . |
| 4 | The players will train at Bradford next week and have three days together in Wales prior to the game the first between the countries since England won convincingly at Ebbw Vale eight years ago . |
| 5 | Tough tackling and controlled possession by Woodmill were the dominant features of extra time and no goals resulted , making the game the first of the tournament to go to penalties . |
| 6 | This was in a sense the first of the family of rare or inert gases to be discovered ; but in chemistry the discovery of an element requires also its isolation , and this did not happen until 1895 , when William Ramsay was in the process of finding the whole group of these gases . |
| 7 | This significant alteration in the nature of the Muftilik suggests the need for a reconsideration of the Turkish historical tradition regarding the establishment of the institution , to explore the possibility that Fahreddin Acemi was in a very real sense the first of the long line of Muftis . |
| 8 | Later in the year the first of a series of athletic matches between School and Stockport School was held , organized by the respective P.E . |
| 9 | During the raid the first of the twelve Boeing B–17s from the mainland arrived . |
| 10 | In the meantime the first of the warbird collection was two-seater Fury T.20S G–BCOW which had been bought from Doug Arnold at Blackbushe in 1976 and had previously been used in West Germany on contract to the Luftwaffe as a target tug . |
| 11 | A MAN 'S ecstasy-related death the first in the district provoked a stark warning from coroner Christopher Johnson yesterday . |
| 12 | The officers had grounds to suspect each appellant of having committed an offence by the time the first of the sales in which he was involved was transacted . |
| 13 | Seb and Christian had not found an opportunity to have their promised talk by the time the first of the local fairs came around . |
| 14 | Bengal was the first region in the Indian sub-continent to come under the British rule , and the Bengali middle class the first among the Asian intelligentsias to respond to the western presence . |
| 15 | They were in fact the first of the so-called Friendly Islands to be seen by Europeans : the Dutch navigators Willem Corneliszoon Schouten and Jacob LeMaire spotted them in April 1616 . |
| 16 | It is in fact the first of the great many spas you meet with in the Pyrenees , when coming from the Atlantic coast , good , so one aged guidebook has it , for ‘ nervous people , the neurasthenic , the scrofulous , the lymphatic , the dyspeptic , the rheumatic , the enfeebled , the asthmatic … |