Example sentences of "the first fruits [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The first fruits of their mental endeavour are a sobering awareness of the likely complexities of the post-war Middle East and an unease about the meagre quantity of strategic thinking going on in other European and Arab capitals .
2 What are now her Remains were the First fruits of her Studies …
3 Recently , part of the Jackson operation was transferred to Japan , and the first fruits of this rearrangement include this , the model JIX4MR , known to its friends as the Infinity XL …
4 According to MacWeek , the development will be the first fruits of a planned family of multi-environment technologies that the company is calling Companion , which also involves plans for a thorough overhaul of the Macintosh interface over the next few years .
5 IBM Corp , Apple Computer Inc and Motorola Inc are months ahead of schedule in producing the first fruits of their PowerPC RISC alliance , Associated Press reports .
6 The first fruits of their labours is the Earth Data System , a solution for collecting and analysing critical geographically distributed environmental-impact data put together with NASA and several universities .
7 Mountain View , California-based , Pyramid Technology Corp has introduced Valence Cluster , the first fruits of its co-development with Oracle Corp ( UX No 423 ) , to provide clustering capabilities for its MIServer and ES range of servers supporting the Oracle 7 Parallel Server option database .
8 Stateside gossip has it that Hitachi Ltd will announce a ‘ Unix mainframe ’ within the next 30 days : possibilities are either OSF/1 on its existing M-series mainframes , or the first fruits of its efforts with Hewlett-Packard Co 's Precision Architecture RISC , which is said to be a RISC-based Unix co-processor for the IBM-compatible mainframes .
9 Although the first fruits of this decision took place in l982 , the writing had been on the wall , and read by us many years before that , and it took a period of some years to find a way of moving out of polythene , which was not only ICI 's own proud invention , but an area where we had been acknowledged world leaders for many years .
10 With many electricity supply contracts coming up for renewal at the end of March , the first fruits of the Government 's privatisation policy for the industry are ripening , much like the olives growing in the Department of Energy 's new atrium at the centre of its London offices .
11 But neither they nor an unreformed Exchequer could handle the large new sources of income brought into being by Henry VIII 's breach with Rome : the first fruits of bishoprics , the tenths of all ecclesiastical benefices , the revenue from the renting and sale of monastic lands .
12 An easy evening awaited him ; both he and Daalny were excused all service , for Rémy was to dine with the abbot and the earl , the first fruits of his campaign in search of place and status .
13 Now one of the first fruits of the partnership agreement with the Germans , is a successful initiative on joint training and education of officers and shop stewards funded from the E C fourth programme .
14 Even though only about 80 per cent fit , the first fruits of her new training regime were reaped when she outpaced a mediocre field to win in an unspectacular 53.38sec .
15 These are the first fruits of a beginning letter to all the London embassies .
16 Earlier this month in Tokyo , Unix International Inc demonstrated the first fruits from the publication one year ago of Edition 1 of its Unix System V Common Japanese Environment specifications .
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