Example sentences of "[noun prp] and 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 | 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 . ] |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Work began on the construction of the school in December and the first brick has already been laid . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | At least four other parties were recognized , or applied for recognition , in March and the first week of April . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | [ 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 . ] |
| 15 | Press Alt and the first letter of the menu option and the sub-menu will drop down . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He took part in the retreat from Mons and the first battle of Ypres . |
| 18 | The series was the brainchild of publisher Allen Lane and architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner and the first volume appeared in 1953 . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The centre is also open to the public daily during June , July and August and the first week in September . |
| 22 | Because of the danger to cars on Marine Drive , the local council insists no climbing takes place between 9 am and 6 pm on bank holiday weekends , and throughout July , August and the first week of September . |
| 23 | As long ago as the 1960s the possibility of this form of cursor control was being looked at by the Stanford Research Institute in California and the first mouse was patented in 1970 . |
| 24 | The fieldwork for this study will be concentrated primarily in the counties of Devon and Cornwall and the first stage will be to plot the various points of contact between the providers of legal services and the populations they serve . |
| 25 | Subjects were eligible when the period between the last test result negative for HIV and the first test result positive for HIV-1 was no longer than six months . |
| 26 | On a timetable tentatively discussed , that might place the demonstration on Saturday 17 April and the first recall date Friday 23 . |
| 27 | Demonstrations throughout April and the first part of May organized by activists opposed to ( ex-Communist ) President Rakhmon Nabiyev 's regime culminated in the formation of a coalition government , announced on May 11 , in which eight of the 24 ministerial posts went to opposition members , while Nabiyev remained as President . |
| 28 | As the war in Europe neared its end in the last week of April and the first week of May 1945 , Allied armies were closing in on Austria from west , east and south . |
| 29 | ( 2 ) The USA and the First World War |
| 30 | Of the second here illustrated , the Moss Provence , Miller said that it had not long been known in London and the first time he saw it ‘ was in 1727 in the garden of Dr Boerhaave near Leyden who was so good as to give me one of the plants , but from where it came I could not learn . |