Example sentences of "in [noun] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The discovery in Russian archives in Moscow of the first complete version of the diaries of Joseph Goebbels , Adolf Hitler 's Propaganda Minister , was reported on July 3 . |
| 2 | The result is a bucking of current trends with the growth in spending outstripping rises in income for the first time in three years . |
| 3 | The Roman bronze figure of Ajax seated in meditation from the first century BC is the only three-dimensional representation of the Greek hero to have survived ; it is thought by Ortiz to be the clue to the subject of the Belvedere torso in the Vatican Collection . |
| 4 | Among several groups , such as the weavers and combers of the south-western serge manufacture and the tailors , hatters and printers of London , there is clear evidence that organisations recognisable as trade unions were in existence by the first two decades of the eigh-teenth century . |
| 5 | Well the problem is , you see , the devil has blinded their eyes , he had blinded the eyes of men and women so that they think that they ca n't do this , but what has actual happened , Paul tells us , i i in , in Corinthians in the first er , in Two Corinthians in chapter four , and verse four , he says , the God of this world has blinded the eyes of the unbelieving that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ , who is the image of God . |
| 6 | In Sheffield in the first stage , when annuals and short-lived perennials move in , Oxford ragwort ( Senecio squalidus ) , knotgrass ( Polygonum aviculare ) , orache ( Atriplex hastata ) and fat-hen ( Chenopodium album ) are common . |
| 7 | He 'd been a prisoner-of-war in Germany during the First World War and as a result of his wartime experiences suffered constantly from a weak chest . |
| 8 | People do laugh in meetings of the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist . |
| 9 | This is true in 80% of the first related papers in Appendix 5 , where a total of 97 papers ( 30% ) appear to derive from field mapping . |
| 10 | This is true in 80% of the first related papers in Appendix 5 , where a total of 97 papers ( 30% ) appear to derive from field mapping . |
| 11 | Therefore it was supposed that payments practices , and other institutional arrangements which change only slowly over time , have more influence on the velocity of circulation than any temporary changes in M. Before the First World War there may have been a good deal of truth in this assumption because the financial system was relatively unsophisticated and financial innovation was taking place very slowly by today 's standards . |
| 12 | In response to the first task , 72 per cent of the pupils obtained an acceptable height measurement for the label but 44 per cent only cut out the label with acceptable accuracy . |
| 13 | Hence , even where force is used in self-defence in response to the first use of violence the employment of a greater degree of force than that used by the attacker , or the continued use of force beyond the point where the attacker is willing or unable to continue the attack would not be seen as legitimate in law . |
| 14 | In response to the first Nescafe Boycott , Nestle agreed to abide by the WHO/Unicef International Code of Marketing of Breast Milk Substitutes . |
| 15 | In response to the first cycle , dysphagia improved dramatically . |
| 16 | Labour 's Alan Milburn , in response to the first question , pledged to restore benefits for 16 and 17-year-olds unable to find work . |
| 17 | Goram , exceptional throughout his reintroduction to the side , was forced to muddy his tracksuit bottoms in response to the first of Amokachi 's many attacks on the break and the more Rangers pressed forward , the more gaps there were for the Belgian side to exploit from a midfield they dominated . |
| 18 | They are joined in Brighton for the first time by LONDON NEW MUSIC . |
| 19 | In preparation for the first National Assembly elections , scheduled for Dec. 21 [ see p. 38291 ] , the main opposition Democratic Progressive Party ( DPP ) at its fifth national congress on Oct. 13 announced a draft manifesto containing a new clause pledging to " build a Taiwanese republic with independent sovereignty " and to redefine the territory of Taiwan , subject to a national plebiscite . |
| 20 | WITH the two main floodlit tournaments in Junior Rugby just around the corner , many clubs are looking forward to the opportunity to sharpen their skills in preparation for the first batch of league matches . |
| 21 | Eurosatellite , an industrial consortium based in Munich , is building the French satellite , plus two others — one for West Germany and one that will act as a ‘ spare ’ in orbit for the first two . |
| 22 | The German propaganda machine — and Hitler himself in his speeches — continued , of course , to hammer home the theme that , in contrast to the First World War , Front and Heimat were indivisibly united , and the bonds between leadership and people unbreakable . |
| 23 | In contrast to the first sequence , the keynote here is one of simplicity and naturalness . |
| 24 | In contrast to the first group , relations are conducted at the Party to Party as well as State to State level . |
| 25 | In 1797 he published a second volume of designs which , in contrast to the first , included a significant proportion of executed projects , the product of this practice . |
| 26 | Anyway , nobody would be particularly interested in Connie after the first day . |
| 27 | Where a member of the Parliamentary Labour Party is representing this party in parliament for the first time the above ( normal ) procedure shall be set in motion not earlier than eighteen months after his or her election as Member of Parliament . |
| 28 | The loan was in support of the second annual arrangement for 1990 under a three-year structural adjustment facility for a total of SDR35,560,000 agreed with the IMF in August 1988 [ see also p. 36924 ] , of which Mali drew SDR10,160,000 in support of the first annual arrangement . |
| 29 | Up to SDR14,120,000 ( $20,000,000 could be drawn in support of the first annual programme for 1992/93 . |
| 30 | Fears of recession which heightened the perception of silver as an industrial metal and heavy over-supply over an extended period , caused prices to plummet to below $4.00 a troy ounce in mid-December for the first time in fifteen years . |