Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The claim to recovery of past payments was dismissed by Lord Wheatley and the First Division unanimously . |
| 2 | I missed out on the two games against Lyngby and the first leg against Leeds . |
| 3 | Mrs Nyirankusi-Munyaneza is Director of the Communication Department of the Protestant Council of Rwanda and the first woman to head the association . |
| 4 | PEACE talks between the Angolan government and the rebel Unita movement have been set for Friday and the first priority will be a ceasefire in the renewed civil war , a UN official said yesterday . |
| 5 | Until things collapsed , I had planned to hold a conference in either the last week in January or the first week in February because , as a result of discussions with the Shopping Hours Reform Council , SOS , the Union of Shop , Distributive and Allied Workers , the Keep Sunday Special campaign , the consumers and other groups , I am confident — |
| 6 | During the last week of July or the first week of August every year , the Provincial Exhibition was held in Regina — a gala display of all manner of farm products , poultry and livestock , coupled with an ‘ extravaganza ’ by way of a grandstand show and horse-racing . |
| 7 | G. A. Studdert Kennedy , by his Friends , 1929 ; Roy Fuller , ‘ Woodbine Willie ’ Lives ’ in Owls and Artificers , 1971 ; Gerald Studdert-Kennedy , Dog-Collar Democracy : the Industrial Christian Fellowship , 1919–1929 , 1982 ; Alan Wilkinson , The Church of England and the First World War , 1978 ; ‘ Woodbine Willie ’ ( centenary assessment ) in Church Times , vol. xxiv , part 6 , 1983 . ] |
| 8 | At Windscale , a MOX Demonstration Facility for manufacturing thermal MOX fuel for pressurised water reactors was completed in January and the first contract has been secured from the Swiss utility NOK . |
| 9 | Walter Hallstein , the West German representative at Messina and the first President of the EEC Commission , had earlier stressed the same point : ‘ We are not integrating economies , we are integrating politics . |
| 10 | Work began on the construction of the school in December and the first brick has already been laid . |
| 11 | The dates ( July and the first week of August ) were dictated by Val 's holiday times and Ed 's graduation from Lancaster University , which took place on July 7th . |
| 12 | I have fished all over Scotland but the first place that I came across this system , which is used to distribute available fishing fairly amongst guests , was at Scourie , and it works very well indeed . |
| 13 | More than 100 million barrels of oil have been produced by BP in Dorset since the first well at Kimmeridge came on stream in 1959 . |
| 14 | Durham Greens will be joining a national CND demonstration against Trident when the first submarine is named at Barrow-in-Furness at the end of the month . |
| 15 | He added that the phenol compounds were imported from Germany until the First World War cut off the supplies , whereupon Edison almost singlehandedly founded the US plastics industry . |
| 16 | The peer , whose ancestors include Sir Winston Churchill and the first Duke of Marlborough , victor of the Battle of Blenheim in 1704 , was taken to Kensington police station . |
| 17 | The South Downs Way runs from Queen Elizabeth Country Park , near Petersfield , to Alfriston in East Sussex and the first team will start at 6.30 a.m . |
| 18 | At least four other parties were recognized , or applied for recognition , in March and the first week of April . |
| 19 | It was at Binghampton that the first incident occurred . |
| 20 | But it was in Zurich that the first shot was fired . |
| 21 | The motorcyclists will be out on the grass track meeting at Kingston Bagpuize in Oxfordshire on Monday and the first round of the British Championship Kart Racing series comes to Shenington near Banbury . |
| 22 | Interestingly enough , the Monday after the first episode was shown , a film company rang us up to ask how the titles had been done . |
| 23 | [ E. E. Willoughby , A Printer of Shakespeare : the Books and Times of William Jaggard , 1934 ; F. P. Wilson , ‘ The Jaggards and the First Folio of Shakespeare ’ , Times Literary Supplement , 5 and 12 November 1925 . ] |
| 24 | Press Alt and the first letter of the menu option and the sub-menu will drop down . |
| 25 | The force was virtually destroyed in its gallant endeavours at Mons and the First Battle of Ypres , with losses amounting to 95,654 by the end of 1914 . |
| 26 | He took part in the retreat from Mons and the first battle of Ypres . |
| 27 | The series was the brainchild of publisher Allen Lane and architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner and the first volume appeared in 1953 . |
| 28 | Sponsored by the Friends of Covent Garden , ‘ The Fiery Angel ’ is a co-production with the Kirov Opera of St Petersburg and the first instalment of a collaboration between the two theatres which will be continued in 1995 with Prokofiev 's ‘ War and Peace ’ . |
| 29 | On the way to Whitby and the first hostel , we turned off at Skinningrove , a steel-producing town that looked exactly like a slice of Newcastle 's backstreets scooped up and set down on the rugged coastline . |
| 30 | The centre is also open to the public daily during June , July and August and the first week in September . |