Example sentences of "[vb pp] [noun] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | A clutch of companies involved in technology from the Soviet space programmes has been given permission for the first time to deal direct with foreigners . |
| 2 | Ramapithecus lasted for about 7 million years and may have then given rise to the first true hominid , Australopithecus , which has a similar dental structure . |
| 3 | The distinctive characteristic of these writers was their belief in progress : the belief , in particular , that the system of international relations that had given rise to the First World War was capable of being transformed into a fundamentally more peaceful and just world order ; that under the impact of the awakening of democracy , the growth of the ‘ international mind ’ , the development of the League of Nations , the good works of men of peace or the enlightenment spread by their own teachings , it was in fact being transformed ; and that their responsibility as students of international relations was to assist this march of progress to overcome the ignorance , the prejudices , the ill-will , and the sinister interests that stood in its way . |
| 4 | These measures , collectively known as the Tory Reaction , meant that by 1685 the opposition alliance which had given rise to the first Whig party had largely crumbled . |
| 5 | The concept of a constitutional amendment as a means of returning to fiscal probity had gathered momentum throughout the first half of 1992 . |
| 6 | On this occasion some of the Messerschmitts had carried bombs for the first time — not a new role for III/JG 27 , which had operated in this manner over the Balkans during the previous month . |
| 7 | The Democratic Convention also won the mayoralties of the important cities of Brasov , Constanta , Ploiesti , Sibiu and Arad ( having won Timisoara in the first round , with 64 per cent of votes ) . |
| 8 | Less publicity shy was Stephen Quinn , publishing director of Vogue , the fashion magazine , who had voted Conservative for the first time in his life . |
| 9 | When John Ryan became Welsh coach in 1988 , the shattering tour of New Zealand having instantly expunged memories of the first Welsh Triple Crown in nine years , he had no compunction about picking old-style tight forwards who , if they did nothing else , would scrummage till the cows came home . |
| 10 | It had been laid out some fifty years before by one of those famous Scottish golfers who had dominated golf in the first couple of decades of the century . |
| 11 | Something around fifteen per cent have mixed ability in the first three years . |
| 12 | There are still very few schools that have mixed ability groups in all of their first three years , but more and more schools are introducing some mixed ability groups in their first three years and about thirty per cent have mixed ability grouping in their first year now , something around fifteen per cent have mixed ability in the first three years . |
| 13 | I had n't officially stopped work till the first of September . |
| 14 | In the following month the Japanese Deputy Foreign Minister , Kunihiko Saito , had visited Moscow for the first working-level negotiations on the dispute since the termination of the Soviet Union . |
| 15 | Bill Filip , president of the Advanced Workstation Division says RS/6000 business has grown 50% in the first half of this year over the corresponding period last year , putting it right on course to achieve its target , he believes . |
| 16 | Sir Bryan had made par on the first hole by sinking a long putt and his tail was up . |
| 17 | Excavations carried out recently on behalf of the Cheltenham Museum have revealed structures from the first to the fourth centuries , an irregular street pattern and a ditch with fourth-century coins in the lower filling which may have been part of a defence system . |
| 18 | As he had also made birdies at the first and third , he was four under par , eclipsing even Raymond Floyd 's start . |
| 19 | In his History of the English Church and People , the eighth-century monk and historian , Bede , named Ella as the first ‘ High-King ( Bretwalda ) , of all the provinces south of the Humber ’ . |
| 20 | RUGBY LEAGUE : The Stones Bitter Premiership final at Old Trafford on Sunday , May 17 , is to be made all-ticket for the first time . |
| 21 | Statistics on the death penalty in the USSR have been made public for the first time since 1934 . |
| 22 | STATE school exam results tables will be made public for the first time this week in the biggest Government publishing exercise since ration books . |
| 23 | Near his Chalk Farm flat was an entrée to another social scene , the world of the small magazines , of Pete Brown , Mal Dean — who had done design for the first It and Robins was drawn towards it . |
| 24 | Uncle Vernon , goaded by the presence of the traveller with the skin grafts , had ruined the festive meal with recollections of his march across France and an encounter in a partially demolished farmhouse outside Lille with a white-haired woman of thirty who as a small child had suffered atrocities in the First World War . |
| 25 | Even though you 've got funding for the first time for this I do n't want to spend an awful lot on materials . |
| 26 | Many at all levels of the movement , who were too young to have had experience of the First World War , were nevertheless affected by its indirect effects . |
| 27 | I HAVE JUST bought Esquire for the first time . |
| 28 | The Italian car industry received its much needed boost in the first race when Messrs Monoia and Morandi beat off 76 other challengers to win in an Italian-made OM , who filled the first three places . |
| 29 | This is a split in two by the prominent crack of Scylla ( VS 4c ) — a fine , ever steepening line until a traverse left avoids the obvious direct finish ( E2 5c ) : one of only four lines on the crag to have used aid on the first ascent . |
| 30 | Jenny must have just got hold of the first . |