Example sentences of "and the first [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The force was virtually destroyed in its gallant endeavours at Mons and the First Battle of Ypres , with losses amounting to 95,654 by the end of 1914 . |
| 2 | He took part in the retreat from Mons and the first battle of Ypres . |
| 3 | Edward Pyatt 's Guinness Book of Mountains and Mountaineering ( Guinness 1980 ) , gives lists of first ascents — mostly by Coolidge and Almer — and a poor location map , but no bibliography ; and Doug Scott 's classic Big Wall Climbing ( Daye Ward , 1974 ) tells only of the feats of Zsigimondy and Diboma on the traverse of La Meije and the first ascent of the South Face respectively . |
| 4 | Although we think of it now as a packaging material and the ubiquitous polythene bag appears to be a major support of modern life , its primary contribution was in the impetus it gave to the plastic moulding industry and the first development of plastic buckets , sink bowls and so on . |
| 5 | The back-channel reports on DEA operations that he had transmitted twice a week from his arrival in Cyprus were on file in a classified computer data bank , codenamed EMERALD , at Bolling Airforce Base , near Washington , and the first order of business upon his return was a systematic debriefing at a hotel near Fort Meade to fill in the gaps . |
| 6 | Robert Julius Matson had guessed right : the first train had come through just nine years after the town was founded in 1858 , pulling behind it the fertiliser works , the com mill , the seed-com warehouse , and with them the quiet prosperity that spawned the first Masonic lodge in 1871 , a voluntary fire brigade in ‘ 75 , the telephone in ‘ 84 and the first sewer in 1920 . |
| 7 | and Mr. Mahmoud , and the first clause of that assignment is : |
| 8 | Thus a process which started in early 1988 will see the first holder of an HNC in Accounting emerge in the summer of 1991 , and the first holder of an HND in Accounting in 1992 . |
| 9 | Page 25 Car sales down : Some 171,730 cars were sold in September , a 10 per cent decline on a year ago and the first fall since April 1987 . |
| 10 | Latest figures showed parish church councils netted £237,571 in 1990 down £1,000 in real terms on 1989 and the first fall for 14 years . |
| 11 | In the darkness before morning and the first shock of discovering that Fiver was gone , Bigwig had been a comfort and a stand-by . |
| 12 | Adoption of workplans and the first call for proposals should follow soon after , and first contracts could be signed by November 1991 . |
| 13 | The fact that Blake was missing was not discovered until 7.20 p.m. and the first call to the police did not occur until 7.43 p.m. so Blake had roughly two hours ' start . |
| 14 | I flung open my double-glazed windows before I went to sleep and the first call to prayer of the Muslim day was a strident awakening . |
| 15 | There was the revulsion at the fluidity of life and the first tube of paint , the revulsion at the meticulousness of painting with a brush and the first pot of paint , the revulsion at the viscousness of paint and the first readymade , the revulsion at the arbitrariness of the readymades and the first use of glass . |
| 16 | It was like that endless moment , Sabine thought , between the lightning flash and the first crackle of thunder . |
| 17 | The Unitarian , L. P. Jacks , was Principal of Manchester College , Oxford , from 1903–1931 and the first editor of Hibbert 's Journal . |
| 18 | Also included are a Stravinsky symphony and the first suite of Ravel 's ‘ Daphnis and Chloe ’ . |
| 19 | With the Ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat , the seventeenth day of the seventh month and the waters went away and decreased until the tenth month and the first day of the tenth month , the tops of the mountains appeared , and after the end of forty days , Noah opened the window of the Ark , which he had made and sent forth a raven which went out , ever going and coming again until the waters were dried up upon the earth . |
| 20 | ’ — And the first law of all ? ’ |
| 21 | Anatoly Kornienko , first secretary of the Ukrainian Communist Party ( CP ) committee in Kiev city and the first speaker after Gorbachev , complained that the platform had no ideological foundation and gave the impression that " the central committee does not know which way to turn " . |
| 22 | It is assumed that the eigenvalues in unc ( and the corresponding eigenvectors in X ) are so ordered that unc has the eigenvalues unc in descending order of magnitude down the diagonal , so that 1 and the first vector in X define the fundamental frequency and mode . |
| 23 | Like all mammals , dolphins need air to live , and the first act of life of a newly-born dolphin is to find its way to the surface to breathe . |
| 24 | Building societies were legally recognized in 1812 , and the first Act of Parliament to regulate them was passed in 1836 , when some 150 societies were being formed every year . |
| 25 | Musically the interim was not unproductive : he compiled several keyboard concertos from other composers ' music collected in Paris and London , and made his first foray into vocal music , with a couple of Italian arias ; he composed a comedy in Latin for Salzburg university entitled Apollo et Hyacinthus , a piece of Passion music , and the first act of a sacred Singspiel , Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots , written in collaboration with Joseph Haydn 's younger brother Michael ( who since 1762 had been music director to the Archbishop of Salzburg ) and another local composer , Jacob Adlgasser . |
| 26 | That 's right , and , and the first act of the play is a rehearsal and it keeps stopping and the director keeps sort of straightening them out and they 're dealing with little problems , and when you 're actually rehearsing it you find yourself sort of repeating the play because it 's so ac Michael Frayn who wrote it has so accurately observed what happens er when you 're directing a play that er you find yourself re-enacting the play and , and suddenly find a discussion you 've just been having has part sounds as if it 's come out of the script . |
| 27 | Sponsored by the Friends of Covent Garden , ‘ The Fiery Angel ’ is a co-production with the Kirov Opera of St Petersburg and the first instalment of a collaboration between the two theatres which will be continued in 1995 with Prokofiev 's ‘ War and Peace ’ . |
| 28 | Women also sat on school boards ( which were responsible for state elementary schools prior to 1902 ) , and the first generation of such women — elected during the 1870s — was particularly active . |
| 29 | We developed and built the first spacecraft to soft-land on the moon , and the first satellite for geosynchronous orbit . |
| 30 | They learn to crawl and then to walk , and the first direction in which they are likely to move is away . |