Example sentences of "of [adj] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government came under heavy pressure from the Law Society of Scotland to retain the contributory band to ensure that applicants were not encouraged to waste police and court time by using legal aid procedures to delay an eventual plea of guilty on the first day in court . |
| 2 | Although conversion of each of the first three buildings considered was potentially viable , all three failed one or more tests of the practicality/viability analysis . |
| 3 | The table below , supplied by GRE , shows surrender values at the end of each of the first five years of the policy . |
| 4 | The tables below show the possible cash values of various premium levels for this 10 year endowment plan at the end of each of the first 5 years . |
| 5 | This exasperating weekday practice prevents us seeing at least 10 minutes of each of the first two sessions of paly . |
| 6 | I was never out of that for the first few years I was saved , I was always getting in there , confessing my sins . |
| 7 | Somewhere here were the contributions of Duroc 's ancestors : a series of articles co-written by Pierre Henri Duroc and Donatien Alphonse Francois , Marquis de Sade , speculating on the limits of the human mind when confronted with endless pain ; some transcripts from the meetings of Robespierre 's Committee of Public Safety , in which the fates of some of the first families of France were decided on a whim ; a suppressed account of certain discoveries in a pre-human city that came to light in 19th-century French Equatorial Africa before the cyclopean stones mysteriously sank into the soft jungle earth ; Cauchemar et Fils , Maitres des Mondes Perdues , an unpublished novel by M. Jules Verne that was purchased from the author by a Great-Great-Great-Uncle and consigned to obscurity because it described a steam-driven engine to open up a gateway to a world of dreams that bore a remarkable similarity to a device that the Duroc of the time had indeed developed . |
| 8 | Since an earlier study ( Wing , 1988 ) had reported no improvement in client experience of some of the first people to move out of Darenth Park Hospital , in services which themselves turned out to replicate many of the organizational features of the hospital , it was decided to include some measures of the physical and social environment as well as of client experience . |
| 9 | But the inter-relation of this to the first five public relations functions is sometimes overlooked by marketing departments in their desire to measure brand sales achievement directly to brand public relations tactical results . |
| 10 | Erm do , do the first one of this into the first one . |
| 11 | Hybrid Tea bush types After attending to the basics or primary aspects — removing completely all dead , diseased and feeble wood ( you wo n't find much of this in the first year ) — seek to prune to outward-pointing buds that will grow out along the line of growth , not sideways , so that this growth leads to an open cup or shuttlecock shape . |
| 12 | After only getting 7 points compared to my target of 10 from the first 6 games , the lads have come back with 14 from the next 6 . |
| 13 | ANDY GOODWAY and David Hobbs , two former Oldham forwards , were yesterday rehabilitated at international level when Malcolm Reilly named a squad of 21 for the first Test against New Zealand on Saturday week . |
| 14 | Now orders came from the , and also we had orders for th , e the falling target in the you know , of a , a rifle range where you had to er put up the frames you know with a target on it and er we made a lot of these during the First World War . |
| 15 | There 's a waiting list of three after the first ten and I do n't see why you should n't persuade Ryan to let you be No. 4 on that . |
| 16 | Of all of the First Spiritualists , he was the only one who seemed , in some way , to have been affected by this business with my dad . |
| 17 | Over the operational period the Teacher Placement Service has increased the levels of activity from an estimated 1,900 teachers into industry in 1989 to in excess of 20,000 in the first two years . |
| 18 | King drew first blood when he took the opening set 7-5 , thanks mainly to counts of 3 on the first and third ends , but Corsie 's reply was immediate : a 7-1 second-set triumph in five ends . |
| 19 | King drew first blood when he took the opening set 7-5 , thanks mainly to counts of 3 on the first and third ends , but Corsie 's reply was immediate : a 7-1 second-set triumph in five ends . |
| 20 | There were six of those in the first section of the compartment . |
| 21 | There are n't many of those in the First Church . |
| 22 | London 's International Stock Exchange said it would cut 350 people from its staff of 2,800 in the first stage of a big slimming campaign . |
| 23 | This assumption allows Lucas to measure as the deviation of actual real output , from the value predicted from a regression of on a constant and time ( where time might take the value of 1 in the first year of the data period , 2 in the second and so on ) . |
| 24 | Wireless World almost created civil war in the audio industry at about this time over its publication of one of the first RC-coupled amplifiers . |
| 25 | Boyd first came to Britain in the early Sixties as the organiser of one of the first package tours of blues and gospel musicians , featuring artists such as Muddy Waters and the Reverend Gary Davis . |
| 26 | Mark Twain ( 1835–1910 ) , author of one of the first popular travel books , in his car , 1907 |
| 27 | Robert Tisserand , a British practising aromatherapist , author and researcher , is the author of one of the first books in English on this hitherto rather elusive ( except in France ) therapy . |
| 28 | Exploration interest was boosted in 1979 by the results of one of the first deep wells drilled east of the Appalachian Front in West Virginia ( Fig. 1 ) . |
| 29 | A notice of his death in the Bristol Journal supports the view that had he lived he would have made an even greater mark as an engineer : ‘ The public have to deplore in him the loss of one of the first mechanics in the kingdom , whose early genius brought to perfection that long-wished-for desideratum , the applying the powers of the fire-engine to rotular movements . ’ |
| 30 | The Minister will be well aware of one of the first campaigns that Strathclyde regional council ever mounted . |