Example sentences of "[noun prp] [num] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | And of course Oxford supporters do n't need reminding that last season they led Fulham 1-0 after the first leg and they lost 5-3 at home . |
| 2 | GREAT BRITAIN 'S team of Mark Petchey and Chris Wilkinson yesterday beat Czechoslovakia 2-1 in the first round of the European men 's team tennis championships in Trieste , Italy . |
| 3 | There is a minor triumph for British tennis when Jo Durie , Clare Wood and Anne Hobbs beat Indonesia 3-0 in the first round of the Federation Cup in Tokyo . |
| 4 | This was followed on 1 July 1893 by the first all-corridor trains in the UK : three new trains of six coaches each , used on the West Coast route to Scotland , two in service and one in reserve . |
| 5 | The Collective State Presidency , excluding the Slovene representative Janez Drnovsek , met on July 4 for the first time with Mesic as President [ see p. 38275 ] . |
| 6 | Such intervention was given its most potent fillip in July 1916 with the first National Conference on Old Age Pensions ( NCOAP ) . |
| 7 | Earlier , there had been fighting at Mannar on Aug. 1 as the LTTE attacked an advancing troop convoy ; naval artillery was used against rebel positions on Aug. 3 for the first time since the resumption of large-scale fighting on June 11 ; and a major clash took place on Aug. 4-5 , involving the repulsing of an unsuccessful rebel attack against the Jaffna fort . |
| 8 | More than 700 tickets were sold for York 's controversial allnight rave on the Knavesmire on July 3 on the first day of sale . |
| 9 | Multiparty elections to a 23-member constituent commission were held on July 23-26 for the first time since the 1977 coup , when Sir James Mancham was overthrown by France-Albert René [ see pp. 28485-86 ] . |
| 10 | Membership would entail the release of detailed information on the Soviet economy , and observers saw the publication of Gosbank ( Soviet State Bank ) accounts on July 16 for the first time since 1936 as the beginnings of this . |
| 11 | Savimbi returned to Luanda on Sept. 27 for the first time since the start of the 16-year civil war . |
| 12 | A ( Soviet ) DRA proposal at the Geneva talks in February 1987 for the first time made public a time frame for Soviet withdrawal , eighteen months , with no conditions attached to the process of ‘ national reconciliation ’ in Afghanistan . |
| 13 | With the prospects of breaking the stalemate fading , hopes rose following the announcement that the government and ANC representatives had held talks on July 28 for the first time since the ANC broke off contact on June 23 . |
| 14 | Under the system of rotating leadership Mesic was due to assume office on May 15 as the first non-communist president . |
| 15 | In 1955 also the idea of a Children 's Church on Sunday mornings was first suggested ( thought it did not start till November 1960 ) and in December 1955 for the first time there was a Christmas tree in church . |
| 16 | The ‘ Unification ’ of April 1937 , and the appointment in January 1938 of the first Nationalist cabinet , proved to be the first steps in the creation of the authoritarian regime which , following the Nationalist victory in 1939 , was to govern Spain for another 36 years . |
| 17 | De Klerk arrived in the United States on Sept. 24 for the first official visit by a South African government leader in 44 years . |
| 18 | The House will recall my Adjournment debate of 22 January 1991 following the publication in December 1990 for the first time of the annual report by Her Majesty 's inspector of constabulary , Mr. Geoffrey Dear . |
| 19 | Representatives of West Berlin , which is not a constituent part of the Federal Republic , in both the Bundestag and Bundesrat have since May 1990 for the first time had full voting rights in both bodies . |
| 20 | Goran Hadzic , leader of the Serbian enclave of Western Slavonia , was elected by 230 votes with six abstentions as Babic 's replacement in Borovo Selo on Feb. 26 at the first joint session of the assemblies of Serbian Krajina , the Autonomous Region of Western Slavonia , and the Serbian Region of Slavonia , Baranja and Western Srem . |
| 21 | Oct. 21 In the first of a spate of stabbings , a Palestinian labourer kills three Israelis in a West Jerusalem knife attack [ ibid . ] . |
| 22 | Hekmatyar 's most powerful rival in the mujaheddin , the northern-based Jamaat-e-Islami leader Ahmad Shah Massud ( known as the " Lion of Panjsher " for his victories over Soviet troops in the Panjsher Valley — see p. 36396 ) , visited Islamabad , the Pakistan capital , on Oct. 13 for the first time for more than 10 years , to meet other mujaheddin leaders and senior Pakistani civilian and military officials , including the Pakistani President , Ghulam Ishaq Khan , the Army Chief of Staff , Gen. Mirza Aslam Beg , and the ISI chief , Maj.-Gen. |
| 23 | The UN Security Council had reconvened on Feb. 13 for the first time since the outbreak of hostilities to review the progress of the conflict . |
| 24 | MARTIN DUGARD rode unbeaten on his home track as England outclassed Australia 73–35 in the first Test at Oxford last night . |
| 25 | The opposition failed to make an impact on Nov. 25 in the first multiparty elections since independence in 1960 , the ruling Parti démocratique de la Côte d'Ivoire ( PDCI ) retaining 163 of the 175 seats . |
| 26 | An Israeli trade delegation visited Beijing on Nov. 18-22 for the first official talks on establishing trade ties following a secret visit by Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Arens on Nov. 4-8 to discuss military co-operation and China 's arms sales to the Middle East . |
| 27 | Iraqi authorities lifted the night-time curfew on Nov. 23 for the first time since the Aug. 2 invasion [ see pp. 37632-35 ] . |
| 28 | As the Globe went to press , Kotoko had reached the quarter finals of the competition and lead Merekesh Club of Morocco 3–0 following the first leg of the round . |
| 29 | Drumaness Mills have not conceded a goal this season and they again recorded a blank sheet when beating Dunmurry Rec 3-0 in the first round of the Steel & Sons Cup at Ashley Park . |
| 30 | The BTO/BASF Garden Bird Survey started in September 1987 as the first ever , year-round study of garden birds . |