Example sentences of "the first [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first serial section from each block was stained by haematoxylin and eosin . |
| 2 | Blix , in Libya for the opening of the first Arab conference on the peaceful uses of atomic energy , visited Libya 's one declared nuclear reactor , the small Soviet-built Tajura research reactor outside Tripoli , and found that it had been shut down since June 1991 because spare parts were no longer available and most of the Soviet scientists who had worked there had gone home . |
| 3 | Birkwood Lock , the first mechanized lock with control tower and traffic light gantry . |
| 4 | The first criminal prosecution against nine Indian officials of the United States company Union Carbide , implicated in the Bhopal gas disaster of December 1984 [ see pp. 33647-48 ] , opened in Bhopal on July 17 . |
| 5 | It will be the first grand event after the Christmas and New Year celebrations , and I am determined to make it a success . |
| 6 | The artist 's impression of Ivan 's majestic features and lavish robes captures the awe inspired by the first Grand Prince to be crowned ‘ Tsar ’ . |
| 7 | It was not until 1903 that the famous rope of Ravanel , Giraud and Comte completed the first grand traverse of the Drus in the opposite direction . |
| 8 | THE FIRST GRAND HOTEL OF LONDON . |
| 9 | Although SVR4 MP was the first technical success for the UI technology committees , Price says SVR4.1 ES should be regarded as UI 's technological linchpin for the future . |
| 10 | Tony was the first Technical Adviser for the lager operation and ran the training programme for all the breweries that handled the brand in the 1960s at the beginning of the later boom . |
| 11 | The impact of the oil crisis and its associated inflation led to the first actual decline in income for OECD countries for over a quarter of a century . |
| 12 | As far as I know , the first actual record of an objective mechanical test , which had results of practical consequence , occurs in Pepys ' diary for 4 June 1662 . |
| 13 | It would be sad if ill-health were to deprive him of the chance to become the first democratically-elected president of South Africa . |
| 14 | Previously , the start was determined by a blind draw within the first seeding group of 15 . |
| 15 | THE PROSPECT of tax increases in next month 's Budget appeared to recede yesterday as the Chancellor , Norman Lamont , received the first good news in a year on Britain 's public spending . |
| 16 | Bivouac : the first good band from Derby |
| 17 | OK , THEN , the first good band from Derby . |
| 18 | The agreement , similar to one which President Alberto Keinya Fujimori had rejected in September 1990 [ see p.37708 ] , provided for US$34,900,000 in military equipment and training for the army and police force — the first such funding since the USA funded anti-guerrilla operations in 1965 — and $60,000,000 in economic aid ( expected to be increased in 1992 to $100,000,000 ) to assist coca growers to switch to other crops . |
| 19 | People buying shares in British Telecommunications Plc will be able to deal in shares by punching the keys on a normal push-button telephone : the retail investment company ShareLink Ltd said the service , the first such scheme in Europe , is being offered as part of the marketing campaign for BT3 , the UK government 's sale of a third tranche of British Telecom shares , marketing of which began yesterday ; the system will later be extended to cover other shares ; the government 's remaining shares are to be sold in July ; pricing and details of whether all the remaining 21.8% stake will be sold are due in June . |
| 20 | In 1880 Milne founded the Seismological Society of Japan , the first such society in the world . |
| 21 | Police in Northumbria believe it is the first such attack on a house . |
| 22 | It 's the first such attack in Gloucestershire , although other forces are investigating similar incidents . |
| 23 | On Sept. 15 , Egyptian radio had reported that members of the Kuwaiti resistance had assassinated an Iraqi Baa'th party official , Najib Khalaf , in Baghdad , the first such attack inside Iraqi territory . |
| 24 | The federal government on Nov. 6 , 1989 , announced its acceptance of a free-trade ruling against a Canadian fisheries practice concerning the processing of salmon and herring , the first such ruling under the panels procedure . |
| 25 | It 's the first such building to be bought by a new trust which has been set up to protect some of the country 's loveliest old places of worship . |
| 26 | The first such substance to be synthesised was 1-methyl-1,4-dihydro-4-oxo-3-quinolinecarboxylic acid ( 1 ) , which was obtained in 1949 by oxidising the alkaloids melicopine , melicopidine and melicopicine with concentrated nitric acid . |
| 27 | It is believed that this is the first such interchange to be arranged between a British or a European social research group and one in the People 's Republic of China . |
| 28 | President Roh Tae Woo made a three-day state visit to the United States beginning on July 1 , the first such trip by a South Korean leader for 26 years . |
| 29 | On Nov. 10 , 1989 , the British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) World Service accused China of " regular and severe " jamming of BBC broadcasts , the first such instance of systematic jamming . |
| 30 | In a general election on April 9 the Conservative Party , led by John Major as Prime Minister since November 1990 , won a fourth consecutive term of office — the first such instance since the early 19th century . |