Example sentences of "the first [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the failure of attempts to salvage the talks — the first between the two countries since May and originally scheduled for July — they were abandoned on Nov. 6 . |
| 2 | And it was the necessarily progressive movement of the dialectic that was to ensure the victory of the first over the second , the success of the revolution . |
| 3 | Let us note , too , that coming as Marx did to English economics after he had studied Hegel 's philosophy of history , he could come with a mind predisposed to fit the first into a grand dialectical scheme such as the second propounded . |
| 4 | As a woman 's teenage children leave home , she may interpret the loss of the first as a welcome freedom . |
| 5 | In fact patriarchy , class , and hierarchy all presupposed a law of gender difference which was at once divinely , naturally , and socially laid down , the law descending from the first through the second to the third . |
| 6 | The bravest man of the week has to be grand prix driver Martin Donnelly … he was back in a formula one car for the first since a near fatal crash in Spain … |
| 7 | THE FALL release their second Cog Sinister/Fontana LP ‘ Shiftwork ’ on April 22 , the first since the controversial departure of Marcia Schofield and Martin Bramah last summer . |
| 8 | The major political event of 1990-91 was the promulgation of the new Constitution , the first since the communist victory in 1975 . |
| 9 | Local elections ( the first since the military coup of 1983 ) were held in December 1990 [ see pp. 37908-09 ] . |
| 10 | The ruling National Front ( Barisan Nasional , BN ) coalition managed to retain the Jerai parliamentary seat , with a reduced majority , in a by-election in the northern state of Kedah on March 4 — the first since the 1990 general election . |
| 11 | McRae 's Subaru coughed like a grizzly bear , went sideways into the first of a thousand bends , spitting grit in lacerating force at a lot of spectators , as brave as the men they had come to admire then disappeared into the foreboding conifers of Grizedale Forest . |
| 12 | On May 28 , 1990 , his trial , the first of a former Pasok minister , began . |
| 13 | Earlier in the month , on Nov. 8 , Roh had attended a one-day meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa in Kyoto , in what was described as the first of a planned series of regular bilateral discussions . |
| 14 | In the first of a new series , Richard Jackson of Radio 5 's Morning Edition looks at the quirky side of gardening life |
| 15 | In the first of a new series problem-solver , Nigel Colborn , offers some planting solutions to garden hot-spots |
| 16 | Robinson was the first of a new generation of supporters of Paisleyism . |
| 17 | The first of a new family of drugs based on the leech has been developed thanks to a key piece of understanding provided by Huber 's team at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Germany . |
| 18 | Bottom : 641 — the first of a new generation — seen at Little Bispham in 1984 . |
| 19 | The first of a new series of annual reports on attitudes , values and beliefs , Social Attitudes in Northern Ireland is based on detailed interviews carried out with a large and representative sample of adults , and presents exacting analyses of their opinions on a wide range of issues — including national identity , law and order , discrimination , the role of women , morality , poverty and AIDS . |
| 20 | The monarchy had passed from the Bruces to the Stewarts and Robert was the first of a new and long lasting dynasty . |
| 21 | In the first of a new series , which considers the properties of various media , MARTIN CHILD examines the brands available and puts them to the test . |
| 22 | The first of a new generation of strong-motion seismic data-acquisition systems has been developed , and commissioned at Hunterston power station for Scottish Nuclear . |
| 23 | In the first of a new series on multi-activities Henry Druce gets high on paragliding |
| 24 | He was the first of a new generation of writers who sought to repair the post-Conquest destruction of earlier pieties and observances by steady persistence in re-creating the past . |
| 25 | In the first of a new series Peter Partington shows how to draw birds by looking for the essential scaffolding of shapes on which to build form and detail |
| 26 | Taking a leaf out of NCR Corp 's book of strategies , Unisys Corp will next week unveil the first of a new line of highly configurable Intel Corp and EISA-based personal computers that , with few if any changes , will magically turn into Unix-run workstations and entry-level servers early in the second quarter . |
| 27 | In the first of a new series Raymond Spurrier , still travelling hopefully , encounters some visual shocks in a trip down under |
| 28 | In the first of a new series Jane Stroud examines the opportunities offered to artists by the AOI |
| 29 | ‘ The 17m prototype , FAB 3 , is undergoing the most rigorous sea trials which will continue until we can be completely satisfied that she is in every way suitable to become the first of a new generation of fast All-weather lifeboats . |
| 30 | These babies are to be the first of a new kind of missile , powered by life . |