Example sentences of "to the first [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this connection it is interesting to go back to William Smith , the father of stratigraphy , and to find him commenting in his memoir to the first geological map in 1815 : " The edges of the strata … are called their outcrops ; and the under edge of every stratum , being the top of the next , and that being generally the best defined , is represented by the fullest part of each colour " . |
| 2 | Or perhaps for a return to the first Great Awakening of the eighteenth century , when Jonathan Edwards thundered against the evils of the age . |
| 3 | Singing constantly from a prominent post or in flight , they show off their beautiful spring black , white , grey and buff spring plumage in the hope it will prove irresistible to the first passing female . |
| 4 | A large number of firms the Joint Monitoring Unit visited last year are failing to meet one or more of its criteria for good audit procedures , according to the first annual review of audit regulation . |
| 5 | THE new government had to draft in a hasty replacement to lead its delegation to the first annual meeting of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development following the election defeat of overseas development minister Lynda Chalker . |
| 6 | Mr Rawlins , 38 , has spent the past seven years working with the Lloyd 's insurance market and was once personal assistant to the first chief executive of that community , Ian Hay Davison . |
| 7 | Catherine reacted furiously to the first major attack on serfdom and autocracy , Journey from Petersburg to Moscow ( 1790 ) by A. D. Radishchev ( 1749–1802 ) . |
| 8 | As soon as we ask what faith is and what sort of mistreatment of faith causes doubt , we are led to the first major misconception about doubt — the idea that doubt is the opposite of faith and the same thing as unbelief . |
| 9 | Yet it is migration to and from rural areas that has been the main concern of rural geographers in the last century , and so attention is now turned to the first major theme of this chapter , rural population change . |
| 10 | These are linked to the first new component of the family , the OpenServer Directory Exchange Server , DXS , which provides a centralised repository of all user addresses on the network , and is responsible for propagating this information to the other electronic mail systems . |
| 11 | Walsh attributes his excellent form to the first real break he has had from year-round cricket : ‘ Being omitted from the World Cup squad was a blessing in disguise . |
| 12 | In a speech to the first extraordinary congress in its 69-year history of the ruling Mongolian People 's Revolutionary Party ( MPRP ) , held in the capital Ulan Bator on April 10-13 , general-secretary Gombojavyn Ochirbat called on the estimated 926 delegates to acknowledge the party 's previous mistakes and the shortcomings of its leadership which , he stated , had been " crucial in plunging society into its present crisis " [ see pp. 37317-18 for details and consequences of March unrest ] . |
| 13 | And the Press Council called senior editors to the first extraordinary meeting convened in its twenty-seven-year history to discuss the matter . |
| 14 | When the Civil Service proceeded to the first comprehensive retirement programme in the 1850s , the justification for imposing the cowardly administrative convenience of an age barrier was how invidious it would have been to attempt any form of assessment . |
| 15 | An idea of the complexity of this process can be gauged from the events which led to the first successful casting of iron cannon in Sussex , at Buxted in 1543 . |
| 16 | Her enterprise " led to the first Deaf Choir Festival which was held in St. Barnabas Church , Oxford , in 1976 . |
| 17 | Although the Act gives no protection to a dealer , it will give protection to the first private purchaser providing he was bona fide , etc . |
| 18 | For a word like ‘ button ’ , or ‘ bottle ’ , it would be necessary to add and to the first post-final set ; the argument would be extended to include the in ‘ Hungary ’ . |
| 19 | A terrific midwife hales them up and down stairs to the first antenatal session . |
| 20 | In 1578 he subscribed to the first unsuccessful colonizing voyage of Sir Humphrey Gilbert [ q.v . ] . |
| 21 | It was in 1851 that the Great Northern Railway established its locomotive works in Doncaster , and twelve years later the amalgamation of a number of railway companies led to the first regional monopoly , the North Eastern Railway , this business being engineered mainly by George Hudson , the ‘ Railway King ’ . |
| 22 | Elsewhere the 70 m ( 230 ft ) terrace is sometimes attributed to the first interglacial period . |
| 23 | The prize will be given to the first correct entry ( which should be sent to by ) and we 'll print the answers in the next issue . |
| 24 | The prize will be awarded to the first correct entry checked after the closing date . |
| 25 | Luke telephoned her early to tell her , tersely , what time he would fetch her that night , and although she put a frigid resentment into her voice Maria did n't demur , since it was in their public , professional capacities that the radio station 's personnel had been issued with complimentary tickets to the first Taiwanese appearance of a fairly famous American singer . |
| 26 | Calls will be linked automatically to the first available Samaritan volunteer , whatever part of the country they happen to be in . |
| 27 | Changes in intensity thus relate to the first spatial derivative of the refractive index . |
| 28 | According to North , it is not inconceivable that such an oscillating striking device , triggered at suitably chosen intervals by a hydraulic clock , pointed the way to the first mechanical escapement proper . |
| 29 | Today it is reached by the main road , up the valley of the Petite Nive , through Arnéguy , which is the French frontier post , to the first Spanish village of Valcarlos and then Roncesvalles or , in its more familiar French form , Roncevaux . |
| 30 | It originated probably with St Bernard in the late 1140s or early 1150s in his address to the first Cistercian pope , Eugenius III , whom he calls " vicar " and " vicar of Christ " , but it had only been employed domestically within papal circles before Innocent 's time . |