Example sentences of "[vb -s] the first [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 And for my taste it fulfils the first law of festivals — it 's fun .
2 THE BEGINNING OF THE END Lord Young looks on as Paul Reichmann drives the first pile at Canary Wharf in 1987 .
3 The tellers look first at who receives the first preference on each ballot paper and put into each candidate 's box every ballot paper on which he is number one .
4 Together with Caedwalla 's grant of land in Battersea in Surrey , also to the monastery of Barking ( CS 87 : S 1246 ) , it constitutes the first sign of an extension of western Saxon influence north of the Thames and an indication of potential development .
5 ‘ I have spent the last six months investigating Free People , and what they have asked for constitutes the first stage of their long-term programme . ’
6 NEWTOWNABBEY mayor Alderman Arthur Kell will send a rocket into orbit this Saturday when he lights the first firework at the Valley Leisure Centre 's annual display .
7 Roger Pringle , director of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust , signs the first letter for the Stratford-on-Avon Group at their stall set up in the town centre .
8 New elements include Visual WorkBench , and AppWizard , which automates the first steps of using an application framework , which Microsoft says makes it easier to get started developing an application .
9 Cimflex Teknowledge Corp of Pittsburgh is selling the unit that represents the first part of its name , its Automated Factories Division , to Flexpack Corp , a wholly owned unit of Julius Capital Partners LP.The price includes assumption of some liabilities , about $160,000 in cash and potential royalty payments dependent on future Flexpack sales .
10 In this model , modelling land-use and transportation policies represents the first stage of this air quality simulation system ( Gross , 1982 ) .
11 This currently funded project represents the first stage of this research .
12 The Labour Party claims that this represents the first stage in a policy of full market rents .
13 This particular book Etchings Illustrative of Scottish Character and Scenery represents the first appearance of a deaf artist in pictorial literature .
14 It represents the first extinction of a British mammal since the wolf was hunted out in the mid-18th century .
15 Mankind 's failure to recognise with conviction that this basic source of ‘ goodness ’ represents the first premise from which to define God , would mean that the only way in which civilisation can prosper is barred , for there is no other identifiable source available .
16 The purchase of Ephron 's field and cave represents the first step towards Israel 's actual possession of the Promised Land .
17 It seems perfectly possible that the creation — or re-creation , if one accepts that Molla Edebali and Tursun Fakih were in some sense Muftis — of the office of Mufti to which Molla Fenari and Molla Yegan were appointed represents the first step in the creation of the office to which Fahreddin Acemi was appointed , a groping towards the concept which was fully realized in the office held by the latter .
18 The exhibition also represents the first showing of works by Olga Rozanova and reveals her as a very substantial painter who clearly made a crucial contribution to the Russian Avant-garde : the paintings are stunning , both in scale and conception , and the unusual colour contrasts are highly original .
19 Rather as you expected East wins the first trick with the ten of diamonds , and at trick two leads the four of spades .
20 Jesus wins the first round in the battle against evil ( Mark 1 : 21–28 ) .
21 ‘ That turns the first part of the system off , ’ she explained .
22 In a liberal democracy this needs to be scrutinized constantly , and herein lies the first problem for the researcher .
23 SGS-Thomson Microelectronics BV will get its second capital injection of $500m from its backers by the end of June , its French state shareholder CEA-Industrie says : it already has the first payment of $250m each from France and Italy .
24 The ticketholder of the first ticket drawn has the first choice of artwork .
25 There is one tablet from Knossos which lists several deities including Potnia and Enualios , a name which later was used as an alternative to Ares , the Greek war-god ; it also has the first part of Poseidon 's name , ‘ po-se-da- ’ , but the end is broken off .
26 Wales has the first claim on me , and there 's grave enough danger threatening Wales now ; God forbid I should do anything to add to it .
27 Morgan illustrates the first type of case and Tolson the other ; ( David Raymond ) Smith shows one type of approach in play , Phekoo the other .
28 The danger of adopting a systems approach uncritically is that it is assumed that it is sufficient to identify system structures and to portray the multitudinous variables involved in a particular system which then reinforces the first law of ecology as graphically described by Commoner ( 1972 ) that everything is connected to everything else .
29 Antony then concludes the first part of his speech with an impressive display of emotion .
30 The ‘ body part ’ sense of ‘ leg ’ allows the first suggestion to be accepted , but the other sense does not .
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