Example sentences of "in the first [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is well known that I disliked what was in the first three-year letter of intent , but I wholly approved of the principle . |
| 2 | Participation of over 80 per cent of the workforce was reported in some areas , in the first general strike in Italy since May 1989 . |
| 3 | wins its independence from South Africa ; SWAPO and other exiles return to take part in the first general election . |
| 4 | The Human Rights Protection Party ( HRPP ) , led by Prime Minister Tofilau Eti Alesana , was returned to power on April 5 in the first general election under the country 's recently introduced universal adult suffrage . |
| 5 | In the first general election to the Grand National Assembly , in November 1983 , ANAP , led by Özal , won a decisive victory over the Nationalist Democracy Party , which was backed by the military . |
| 6 | In the first practical sign of a cooling of passions , the old Soviet flag was restored as an interim measure to about 20 ships of the fleet , which on Wednesday had hoisted the Russian ensign of St Andrew . |
| 7 | In the mining region of Asturias , however , it developed into a full-scale revolt involving not only UGT workers but also , in the first practical manifestation of the ‘ Workers ’ Alliance' , the CNT and the Communists . |
| 8 | This was demonstrated in the first political crisis of wartime , a carry over from peacetime . |
| 9 | Our diagnostic efficiency is shown by a diagnostic yield in the first endoscopic session of 82% ; further sessions were needed in the rest of patients mainly because of non-removable blood clots . |
| 10 | In the first annual report of the medical superintendent it was reported that it had not been necessary to use the padded cell on any occasion , despite the fact that many patients had been admitted handcuffed , leg iron locked or bound with cords and chains . |
| 11 | The background to the Essex initiative is described in the first annual report for 1981–1982 ( Taylor , 1983 ) as follows : |
| 12 | There was , he pointed out , no such article in the first Soviet constitution , adopted in Lenin 's time . |
| 13 | There were , I found myself thinking , a hell of a lot of people called Roger in the First Spiritualist Church . |
| 14 | There is no order of hymns in the First Spiritualist Church . |
| 15 | Pike 's rug was a topic of endless fascination in the First Spiritualist Church . |
| 16 | Specific proposals will no doubt be contained in the first joint spending and budget announcement in late autumn . |
| 17 | Farming history was made when a bunch of 10 Charolais steers grossed £17,000 in the first satellite-television auction of prime meat on the hoof . |
| 18 | When she cried in the first therapeutic session , he could not move over to comfort her and was surprised when the therapist drew attention to this strong communication which he had ignored . |
| 19 | NEW YORK — The UN Secretary-General , Javier Perez de Cuellar , plans to send a 625-member peacekeeping force to Central America in the first serious test of the regional peace agreement signed in August . |
| 20 | In the first serious clash since the coup , the army , now given a broader mandate to destroy the Marxist Sendero Luminoso ( " Shining Path " ) guerrillas , on April 28 moved into the Raucana shanty town on the outskirts of the capital Lima , run as a " model " Sendero development ; one person was killed and over a dozen more seriously wounded . |
| 21 | STARS from both sporting and artistic worlds — including golfer Tony Jacklin , actress Maggie Smith , and Frank Bruno , the heavyweight boxer — rub shoulders with 22 heroes of the Lockerbie disaster in the first New Year 's Honours of the 1990s , published this morning . |
| 22 | and the resourceful Jeeves Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry find themselves back in New York in the first new episode of the new and final series of Jeeves and Wooster beginning on I T V this week . |
| 23 | By preventing segregation of chromosomes in the first mitotic division , diploidy is restored , which leads to the development of a parthenogenetic female . |
| 24 | He remembered how fondly Jane had said farewell after her anger had abated , and the memory made him lift his hand to see , in the first creeping light of dawn , the small smear of rouge that still remained on his forefinger . |
| 25 | In the first dark pool under the hollowed bank the steady , rolling eddies went placidly round and round , smooth as cream , their tension dimpling the centre into a slow , minor whirlpool . |
| 26 | They are based on notions of the future as envisioned in the first major exposition of the 1930s in America Chicago 's 1933 ‘ Century of Progress ’ . |
| 27 | Oil giant Shell UK appeared in court at Birkenhead , Merseyside yesterday charged with polluting the River Mersey in the first major case brought by the new pollution watchdog , the National Rivers Authority . |
| 28 | Sept. 13 : In the first major realignment within the EMS since 1987 the Italian lira is effectively devalued by 7 per cent . |
| 29 | NORTH-EAST politicians clashed yesterday over the health service in the first major debate of the election campaign . |
| 30 | In the first major interview since Conor Downey was convicted , The Belfast Telegraph spoke to the Reddan family at their remote home in Gweedore , Co Donegal . |