Example sentences of "the first [noun pl] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Ellen Wilkinson ( who in the 1920s had been among the first women in the Labour Party to support family allowances ) wrote in 1938 : ‘ what the Amery type want is to feed the existing and potential cannon-fodder with the greatest economy and lack of waste . |
| 2 | Perhaps I was one of the first women in the entire province of Parma to be ‘ liberated ’ in that sense . |
| 3 | One of the first houses in the goldfields was built to welcome them and the two children ; the roof was not on by the time they arrived but many miners joined in helping to complete it , the sight of two young Englishwoman being a delightful rarity . |
| 4 | The first lies in the extent to which all evidence adduced depends on guesswork . |
| 5 | The first lies in the discretion the court has under the sections as to the order it will make . |
| 6 | The first lies in the emergence of new social classes as vehicles , both of production and reception , for the new postmodernist cultural forms . |
| 7 | The first lies in the passages in Purcell 's own handwriting . |
| 8 | There were the first hints in the late 1950s of American balance of payments problems , and these strengthened the calls for higher tariffs . |
| 9 | The first of them is an appeal by the first defendants in the present action ( ‘ the appellants ’ ) against an order made by Judge Stockdale , sitting at the Watford County Court on 2 August 1991 , committing each appellant to prison for a term of four months by reason of their contempt . |
| 10 | One of the first initiatives in the programme was a workshop on ‘ Communication for Development ’ , organised in Angola in July this year for Portuguese-speaking countries . |
| 11 | His name was Dave Brown and he eventually went on to establish one of the first clubs in the country to be licensed as an openly gay establishment . |
| 12 | The alternative to the Protocols as a base to the conspiracy theory was the revival of the French counter-revolutionary tradition , which had been developed in the first articles in the ‘ Cause of World Unrest ’ disclosures in the Morning Post in July 1920 , and was handed down to posterity in more permanent form in Nesta Webster 's version of world history . |
| 13 | Teams from Knowsley , Liverpool , St Helens , Sefton and Wirral will compete at under-11 and under-14 level , the first games in the Bebington Sports Centre athletics ' arena kicking off at 10am . |
| 14 | The auditory word detectors are activated by input from a spoken word , and an essential aspect of the model is that this activation begins as soon as the first sounds in the word are heard . |
| 15 | A notice of his death in the Bristol Journal supports the view that had he lived he would have made an even greater mark as an engineer : ‘ The public have to deplore in him the loss of one of the first mechanics in the kingdom , whose early genius brought to perfection that long-wished-for desideratum , the applying the powers of the fire-engine to rotular movements . ’ |
| 16 | However , they are also the largest towns in Deeside , and so , by a process of macrodiffusion , would be the first towns in the area to experience outbreaks of heroin use . |
| 17 | Under most circumstances this is one of the first stages in the preparation of material for pipette analysis . |
| 18 | The pattern of two parallel systems of subject-based examinations ( that is , where passes in individual subjects could be achieved ) has persisted until 1988 , when the first examinations in the new CSE at 16+ were held . |
| 19 | The two cells first grow inward across the midline following a pathway pioneered earlier by the first neurons in the ganglion , Q 1 and Q2 . |
| 20 | We would have first bite at the cake : ours would be the first footprints in the snow . |
| 21 | Air refuelling has come a long way from the first attempts in the thirties where the co-pilot literally popped out and grabbed the hose . |
| 22 | Just turned forty , Frank is married to his job , his wife has left him for a colleague , and when he encounters the sexually predatory Helen ( Ellen Barkin ) he breaks one of the first rules in the book by falling for a suspect . |
| 23 | The foundation of the first colonies in the New World , on the east coast . |
| 24 | The fact that the first components in the structure are syllabuses for four individual subjects which have been placed in position before the other components ( subjects and cross-curricular themes ) have even been sketched out , confirms that the approach is ad hoc . |
| 25 | After the first splendid burst , from The Time Machine to The First Men in the Moon , the quality deteriorates . |
| 26 | The old zeks , the long-term men , they say that the first months in the camps are the hardest . |
| 27 | For most of the past two years , after the first cracks in the ice were heard , Eastern Europe 's future used to be seen something like this . |
| 28 | It is kin , often , who provide shelter during the first days in the town and who help the migrant build his/her own home . |
| 29 | The ‘ Unification ’ of April 1937 , and the appointment in January 1938 of the first Nationalist cabinet , proved to be the first steps in the creation of the authoritarian regime which , following the Nationalist victory in 1939 , was to govern Spain for another 36 years . |
| 30 | The first heroes in the battle to adapt to the damage are the referees at all levels who have sat down amongst themselves , worked out interpretations , decided what to ignore in the letter of the law ; and because the superior team can no longer launch sustained driving to sap the opposition , you find that inferior teams are still fresh as daisies at the end . |