Example sentences of "and [noun] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 31 | British Commander-in-Chief in France and Flanders during the First World War . |
| 32 | Anxious children showed a slightly different pattern : there were often marked increases in fears and worries during the first year of life of the sibling . |
| 33 | It was only minutes before the Athletico gladiators took to the field that Chamden 's assistant manager , Frank Spanner , announced that owing to an outbreak of foot and mouth amongst the first team , they had been forced to include six second-team men in their squad at Billington Euphonia . |
| 34 | Their recommendation that capital grants are withdrawn from extended Section 43 areas depends heavily on the conviction of NP and LA Committees ( with often very strong agricultural representation ) to include all the relevant moor and heath in the first place . |
| 35 | The prefects and captains of the First Eleven , exercising terrific authority for the good of the school , are rewarded , not just with acquiescence but with — blind devotion . |
| 36 | A further promotion will be run on the Pedigree Chum and Whiskas calendars which will be sold through pet shops and supermarkets for the first time ever . |
| 37 | He thought of Hugo , who had revolutionised his own thinking , who had made him challenge and question for the first time . |
| 38 | The cost to the UN of the UN Protection Force ( UNPROFOR ) , whose mandate would be reviewed every six months , was estimated at between $400,000,000 and $635,000,000 for the first year . |
| 39 | UEFA 's appeals committee will hear Tbilisi deny that they tried to bribe the referee and linesmen before the first leg in Georgia three weeks ago . |
| 40 | Departures and connections in Reading are designed to develop the reading skills of elementary and pre-intermediate students of English , and are based on the structures and vocabulary of the first two levels of Streamline English . |
| 41 | CA thanked RBGE staff for their participation and assistance in the first year of the course . |
| 42 | It is the Spirit who leads the Antioch church to send out Saul and Barnabas on the first missionary journey ( 13:2,4 ) which enabled them to return and report that , ‘ The Lord has opened the door of faith to the Gentiles ’ ( 14:27 ) . |
| 43 | Armour and weapons from the First Crusade were closer in style to those of the Norman Conquest . |
| 44 | At Phaistos , some of the pithoi and store-rooms from the First Temple Period survive , projecting 5 metres further to the west than the storage area of the later temple , and extending under its West Court . |
| 45 | The remarkable feature of the Mark 3 is the fact that only one basic bodyshell was produced so that standard-class coaches have exactly the same external dimensions , window spacing and appearance as the first class . |
| 46 | The ladies ' K4 was significant not so much for the Germans and Hungarians in the first two places but for the Chinese who took the bronze , their first ever World medal . |
| 47 | Representatives of the Serbian Republic of Bosnia-Hercegovina and of the self-proclaimed Serbian Republic of Krajina ( RSK ) in Croatia met on Nov. 1 in the north Bosnian town of Prijedor to unite their territories politically , establishing a joint army , legal system and citizenship as the first step towards the unification of the whole Serbian nation [ see p. 39103 ] . |
| 48 | It will inform the recipient of the date , time and place of the first directions appointment or hearing , as appropriate . |
| 49 | Others are entitled to be notified of the date , time and place of the first hearing or directions appointment but are not automatically parties . |
| 50 | It was the main loser in both territory and population from the First World War . |
| 51 | In Mexico , the private sector was able to take advantage of the new seeds , but the peasants on ejido land , often unable to get credit and farming for the first three years without fertilisers were not so productive . |
| 52 | We have to go to Livy and to minor sources for evidence of the conflicts inside the Roman ruling class and between Romans and allies in the first half of the second century B.C. Polybius does not seem to have noticed the feuds inside Rome which accompanied what may appear to us the most uncontroversial aspect of the Roman expansion in Liguria and in Piedmont . |
| 53 | His son and heir by the first marriage , Richard , married Agnes , daughter of Thomas , first Baron Wharton , and was MP for Cumberland in 1547 and 1553 . |
| 54 | There were no stray leaves on the line to hold up the train and service in the first class was near-faultless . |
| 55 | The global commodity system was largely based on persuading the peoples of the non-industrial countries to produce the food and industrial raw materials that were necessary for the continuous growth of capitalism and industrialization in the First World . |
| 56 | Studies from the USA , Australia and the UK demonstrated a highly significant relationship between foetal exposure to lead and birth weight , head circumference and development during the first two years of life . |
| 57 | In Judaism the bereaved person must be surrounded with friends and relatives for the first week and cared for . |
| 58 | The students study language and literacy in the First School , which includes a review of literature for older children . |
| 59 | The Bank of Botswana reported a significant decline in revenue from the main exports of diamonds , copper-nickel and meat for the first quarter of 1990 . |
| 60 | It aimed to pull down the houses and buildings on the site , except for the Board of Control , and to ‘ build a wall in a line with the terrace of the Houses of Parliament , reclaiming about two acres from the River , and on this valuable site to erect Buildings , Streets and Terraces of the first class … |