Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | For all the increase , over 21,000 people left Sussex altogether in the first thirty years of the nineteenth century . |
| 2 | In fact , as we shall see , this evidence has proved largely illusory , but the presentation of the gens stage as a real historical one presents Engels right from the first with the theoretical difficulties which were to plague Marxist anthropology afterwards . |
| 3 | Moving on to sport now and Oxford United face Reading at the Manor tonight in the first round , second leg of the Rumbelows League Cup , the of a one-goal advantage from the first leg at Elm Park ; covering the match this evening is Mickey Inotta who saw Oxford 's bubble burst on Saturday as they went down 3-1 to Nott 's County . |
| 4 | In Germany just after the First World War , for example , working class organisations were so far removed from both the objective interests of the class and the concern of its members that they were incapable of seizing the revolutionary opportunities open to them . |
| 5 | Shearer returns to The Dell for Blackburn tomorrow for the first time since his £3.6 million transfer in the summer , anxious to make life even more uneasy for Branfoot . |
| 6 | had staged the epochal exhibition ‘ Manet and the Post-Impressionists ’ at the Grafton Gallery , when the work of Paul Cézanne , Gauguin , and Vincent Van Gogh was seen in England virtually for the first time . |
| 7 | Rory Underwood 's try put England ahead for the first time in the match with just seven minutes to go after a spell of relentless pressure on the home side . |
| 8 | For example , in discussing his plan to publish Der Freitheitsucher shortly after the First World War he wrote to Benjamin R. Tucker ( in English , for Tucker did not read German ) : ‘ The prices for printing and paper here are abominable , and I am not sure yet , if I can fulfill my plan . |
| 9 | The fifteen hundred men who had set off north from the Forth directly after the first struggle with Siward and who must be less than two hours away at this moment , marching up Strathallan by the way he had come himself , passing Dunblane and Forteviot . |
| 10 | Meanwhile President Gorbachev has been booed and jeered out of Red Square today during the first May day parade not controlled by the Communist party . |
| 11 | The company actually sold five million dollars worth of ‘ green ’ products in Ontario alone during the first month . |
| 12 | Set in Austria just before the First World War the play revolves around Josephea , proprietress of the inn ; Leopold , the head waiter ; several well-to-do local businessmen and the Emperor of Austria who comes to stay at the Inn at the start of the shooting season . |
| 13 | CAIRO ( Reuter ) — Libya 's leader , Muammar Gaddafi , will visit Egypt tomorrow for the first time in 16 years and hold talks with President Hosni Mubarak , Egyptian presidential sources said . |
| 14 | ‘ It is interesting when I bring someone like Rodney Marsh here for the first time to see his reaction . |
| 15 | Timmy , 34 , and his Australian wife Lynda proudly show off five -week-old William Theodore Mallett here for the first time . |
| 16 | So I mean if you were to finish on the thirty first of August then on the first of September . |
| 17 | This explains very clearly why Matilda is far and away the most popular children 's book I have written and was bought by over half a million children in Britain alone in the first six months . |
| 18 | Radio started in Europe shortly after the First World War , and the BBC began broadcasting in 1922 . |
| 19 | After Mironov and Chapman had twice exchanged penalties in the first half , Chapman 's smart 30-yard dropped goal five minutes after the break put Cornwall ahead for the first time while Mishakov was off the field with a shoulder injury . |
| 20 | But the race was not stopped , and both Jackson and American Olympic silver medallist Tony Dees found themselves trailing McKoy badly by the first barrier . |
| 21 | But the race was not stopped , and both Jackson and American Olympic silver medallist , Tony Dees , found themselves trailing McKoy badly by the first barrier . |
| 22 | But the race was not stopped , and both Jackson and American Olympic silver medallist , Tony Dees , found themselves trailing McKoy badly by the first barrier . |
| 23 | The following example of horse jading happened in Suffolk just after the First World War . |
| 24 | Buffalo will know in the next couple of days whether Kelly will be fit to face Houston again in the first round of the play-offs next weekend . |
| 25 | THE new British motor racing season moves up a gear at Silverstone today with the first big meeting of the year — and five young Ulster drivers will be part of it . |
| 26 | He qualified at Bletchley by knocking down Hove 's Justin Murphy twice in the first round , forcing him to hold on so much that the referee disqualified the Southerner . |