Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] the first [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Legato Systems Inc intends making its Motif-based cross-platform backup and recovery software , Legato Networker , available for UnixWare around the first of the year . |
| 2 | Though O'Conor refers to Field as the first of the true piano romantics , he doubts if it is possible to define the major influences on Field 's development . |
| 3 | All the signs are that it will be a holding speech , waiting until December for the first of the combined spending and taxing Budgets , with , maybe , some radical tax reforms thrown in . |
| 4 | It is the general practice for players to receive all prizemonies on offer , so consider the example of Lancashire last July in the first of the two knockout finals when the players received over £1000 each for finishing second to Worcestershire . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , at the Old Museum Arts Centre , the Armada Festival begins on Monday with the first of six productions by young Irish companies . |
| 6 | This screen thriller , dramatised by Alma Cullen from the first of Joan Smith 's novels about them , ends with the two heroines happy in each other 's feminine company . |
| 7 | Immediately afterwards , during the first Test , Canterbury met ND in the first of two top-of-the-table clashes within a fortnight . |
| 8 | So it was back to Melbourne for the first of the final matches . |
| 9 | He said no bread would be baked this Sunday in the first of a series of one-day strikes if the 9,000 workers who produce nearly 80 per cent of loaves throw out the deal . |
| 10 | Vietnam — The country not the war is scheduled for 7.15pm on Sunday 24 November on BBC2 as the first of the new Natural World series . |
| 11 | The following century the Greek system of dating by successive Olympiads from the first in 776 BC was begun , either by the historian Timaeus of Sicily or by Eratosthenes , the famous librarian of the Museum in Alexandria and measurer of the earth , and later Greek chronology was based upon it . |
| 12 | A year so er from the first of March to the first of October you can use the but after |
| 13 | Now we 're off to America and the desert of southern California for the first of a four part series featuring the RAF 's parachute display team — the Falcons . |
| 14 | Final preparations for the shipment from France to Japan of the first of an estimated 30-40 tonnes of plutonium were reported on June 30 . |
| 15 | The 26-year-old right back , capped for the only time two years ago , increases to 26 the squad that manager Graham Taylor expects to fly out to Katowice next Thursday for the first of the Group Two qualifiers next Saturday . |
| 16 | Now yesterday Alison MacDonald looked at the lot of parents struggling around Glasgow in the first of her series on child friendly Scotland . |
| 17 | This was forcibly brought home to Churchill at the first of the conferences attended by Stalin as well as Roosevelt . |
| 18 | The University commissioned a new piece of music by Irish composer Elaine Agnew for the first of these concerts , which not only gave a young composer her first opportunity to write for a full orchestra but also provided an affectionate tribute to the former Chancellor 's memory . |
| 19 | She and her husband moved to Essex after the first of the three children was born , and have stayed in the same house since , Mary busying herself with a multitude of activities locally , and now caring for her husband since his stroke . |
| 20 | KIRSTY SPEAK and Sarah Burnell shared the lead with French challenger Delphine Bourson after the first of the two qualifying rounds for the Centenary women 's British Open golf amateur championship yesterday . |
| 21 | The other structures were dispersed to linger only in the imagination of designers ; in its place Conservative freedom provided London with the first of the giant company headquarters built in the style of Orwell 's Ministry of Truth — the Shell building ( 1958 ) . |
| 22 | We were caught on our last night at Dhundi by the first of seven days bad weather . |
| 23 | LLANELLI , the Schweppes Cup holders , have been drawn against Pontypridd in the first of the back-to-back semi-finals of the competition , to be played at the National Stadium on May 4 . |
| 24 | Nearer to home , the London Letter reported the elevation of Disraeli to the peerage ‘ for reasons of health ’ , also that ‘ the number of lunatics in England and Wales on the first of January last was 64,619 , being 1123 more than in the previous years . ’ |