Example sentences of "['s] [noun] of the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul 's description of the first Gentile Christians scattered round the Mediterranean coastlands of the first century AD would be true of the family into which I was born : ‘ not many wise as men reckon wisdom , not many in positions of power or from noblest families , not many wealthy ’ ( 1 Corinthians 1:26 ) . |
| 2 | That this playboy prince-cum-amateur-soldier should have seen the writing on the wall before the professionals hardly enhances one 's admiration of the First War military mind . |
| 3 | So , similarly , in the First World War , we assumed proudly as an accolade of honour the Kaiser 's ridicule of the first British Expeditionary Force as that ‘ contemptible little army ’ . |
| 4 | The HSE 's review of the first year of COSHH concluded that most firms were aware of COSHH and had tried to comply with the regulations , though many had not gone beyond the collection of information about hazards . |
| 5 | The first five notes of Clemens 's bass are indeed those of the plainsong eighth-tone Magnificat , but his superius is identical with that of Sermisy 's ‘ C'est une dure despartie ’ except that it does not follow Sermisy 's repeat of the first two phrases and does repeat his last phrase . |
| 6 | However , the development that particularly interested Nicholson was Perkin 's discovery of the first aniline dyestuff in his home laboratory in the East End . |
| 7 | At yesterday 's opening of the first multi-party parliament in 26 years , the president said that the management of the country was the responsibility of Kenyans and no-one else , and promised that his government would present its own economic strategy . |
| 8 | Paul Piana 's presentation of the first free ascent of the Salathe Wall on E1 Cap will go down in history as one of the best ever . |
| 9 | He wonders at Mr Brooke 's advocacy of the first Reform Bill , for in Dagley 's view its purpose is ‘ to send you an ’ your likes a-scuttlin' ; an' wi' pretty strong-smellin' things too ’ . |
| 10 | I liked Thomson 's account of the First Symphony , too . |
| 11 | Only after Addington 's budgets of the first decade of the nineteenth century did direct taxation , albeit in a much altered form , begin to recover its share . |
| 12 | Cards on the table , Gavrilov 's reading of the first movement of the Seventh Sonata is one of the finest I 've heard — very nearly as fine as Pollini 's ( DG ) . |
| 13 | Arsenal 's mastery of the First Division was already making them the best-loved , best-hated club . |
| 14 | Sandy 's view of the First Pillar — the defence of the British Isles — was chillingly realistic : |
| 15 | The power of the Imperial illusion is only properly appreciated when we watch the last phase in the career of a politician 's politician of the first rank , Joseph Chamberlain . |
| 16 | Their fluency deceives and leads foreign language teachers to perceive their learners ' command of the first language as perfect by comparison with their knowledge of the foreign language . |
| 17 | Private Richard Downs , 19 , said he was serving as a bar steward in the officers ' mess of the First Battalion Duke of Wellington 's Regiment on election night — April 9 . |
| 18 | it is an artists ' book of the first order , the making of which has been managed from beginning to end by the artist herself , thereby satisfying her desire for creative control over every aspect of its production . |
| 19 | In 1915 he exhibited six works in the ‘ invited to show ’ non-members ' section of the first Vorticist exhibition , held at the Doré Galleries in London . |