Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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1 | There was a deal of euphoria after the first night , the success of the missions , a certain element of surprise , but I did say at that time that we 'd be foolish to lower our guard , because erm there was still a lot of work to do , and that is exactly what it 's turning out to be , and we 're going for his military installations , and he 's got a lot of them , and it 's a wearing down process . |
2 | One national newspaper is offering a bottle of champagne for the first reader who can give more information about Norma 's former boyfriend . |
3 | The Act stated that other schemes could be formed from the schedule of twelve by advancing or postponing the day of payment of the first instalment , provided that the first payment was not made sooner than the eleventh day , and that not more than one penny per pound was added to the interest for every thirteen days of such postponement . |
4 | Pressnell suggests that only a brilliant speech by Keynes prevented its rejection in the Lords.The loan was damaging to British pride , while among its terms the insistence on sterling convertibility within a year of payment of the first instalment was particularly ominous . |
5 | It 's no more astonishing than was the growth of industrialisation in the first place . |
6 | Time zero is the time of admission to the first hospital . |
7 | I was lucky to be given a great deal of freedom with the first draft . |
8 | Today the express coach has much the same sort of function In the first years of the century the number of interurbans grew rapidly . |
9 | THE regeneration of Drumchapel , one of Glasgow 's notorious peripheral housing estates , took a big step forward yesterday with the start of building on the first rented homes to be erected in the area for 35 years . |
10 | And , as his administration staggered through its winter of discontent in the first two months of 1979 , Callaghan 's famed skills as a crisis-manager seemed to desert him . |
11 | Cats ' alert : Fire caused at least £10,000 of damage to the first floor of a house in Pannal Avenue , Whinney Banks , Middlesbrough last night . |
12 | Even the bookmakers lost faith in the world champion who began the event without the status of favourite for the first time in three years . |
13 | Do so can not be replaced by a ‘ copy ’ of part of the first clause . |
14 | We 've seen that with the City technology colleges , which are nobody talks about , surprisingly enough , when we 've discovered that actually industry is n't remotely interested in them , and of course in the first year of an opted out school one might see a bit of palm crossing with silver . |
15 | ‘ A share is the interest of a shareholder in the company measured by a sum of money , for the purpose of liability in the first place , and of interest in the second , but also consisting of a series of mutual covenants entered into by all the shareholders inter se in accordance with [ section 14 ] . |
16 | BERNHARD LANGER , his golf as meticulous as his preparation , added the virtue of patience in the first round of the Masters at Augusta National yesterday . |
17 | Continuing buoyant fish feed demand should result in being ahead of budget in the first half year . |
18 | Even taking into account scene nine , the percentage difference between instances of hesitation in the first six scenes ( 43 instances ) and the last six ( 5 instances ) is 860 per cent , a figure which would suggest that the difference would be perceptible to the reader or audience . |
19 | really answer the first part of the Noble Lord 's question by saying that er er it is a question of future cost , er we are er we are already spending a great deal of money on the first part er of this er library and er we will have to examine the future cost very carefully and I put it to you to the Noble Lord that it would be a really sad reflection where the field of creative endeavour in which this country is m has most excelled over the centuries , in other words literature to have no single focus for celebration , preservation and active use , it really is er very important that this library continues , but may I remind Your Lordships also that we 're not talking about the s the library in this question , we 're talking about the u the site at present used by the builders . |
20 | Other cases have established the principle that a stronger case is needed to justify action to bring about the discontinuance of a use than would be needed to warrant a refusal of permission in the first instance . |
21 | And erm there 's a five day tour to Dunoon and the Cars of Bute on the first of March . |
22 | Besides Andy Adams , robbed by a broken leg of the winning ride on Party Politics , three other jockeys Anthony Tory ( Docklands Express ) , Adrian Maguire ( Cool Ground ) and Mark Perrett ( Rubika ) were painfully put out of action on the first two days . |
23 | First , an objector might try to press the fashionable distaste for the first-person perspective and say that the fact that I can not apply the theory to myself shows nothing except that one should not approach the philosophy of mind via the first person . |
24 | I have also mentioned the question of indictment after the first court appearance , and other hon. Members have suggested other means to tackle the problem . |
25 | For glutamine the rate of metabolism in the first hour was 5.1 ( 1.1 ) nmol/µg protein , 4.6 ( 2.2 ) nmol/h/ µg protein over two hours , and 4.3 ( 1.0 ) over three hours ( p<0.0001 for linearity test ) . |
26 | For example , you can form a curve in a stalk by positioning it in the required shape and then securing it with tiny pieces of tape for the first couple of days of pressing . |
27 | ‘ of innocence in the first degree . ’ |
28 | Debbie dropped out of college after the first year . ’ |
29 | That you 've acted out of altruism from the first ? |
30 | Whether jury after retirement should be allowed to hear tape recording of interview for the first time — practice |