Example sentences of "in the first [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In the first major demonstration since the May-June strike [ see pp. 38302-03 ] at least 5,000 people had gathered in Tirana 's Dinamo Stadium on Aug. 25 , when they were addressed on behalf of the opposition coalition by Azem Hajdari , a member of the Democratic Party ( DP ) executive committee . |
| 32 | In the first major labour conflict of Menem 's administration , bus drivers began a strike in Buenos Aires on Nov. 7 which spread to other cities on Nov. 8 . |
| 33 | Yet from the first the doctrinaire employment of recitative was tempered by occasional songs , dances , and instrumental pieces ; and in the first real masterpiece of the new genre , Monteverdi 's Orfeo of 1607 , the element of vocal melody — even virtuosity — bulked much more considerably . |
| 34 | MIDDLESBROUGH 'S dismal display in the first Super Challenge Cup could shock boss Lennie Lawrence into a last-minute move on the transfer market . |
| 35 | Earlier , in the first systematic exposition of his new conception , Marx ( Marx and Engels , 1845–6 ) indicated four stages of development in the division of labour and the forms of property , in European societies , from tribal property to the communal and state property of antiquity , then to feudal or estates property , and finally to modern capitalist property . |
| 36 | So ‘ Rasta ’ , ‘ Rusty ’ and ‘ Camley ’ featured in the first Roman Candle Their adventures were related in the first person , so giving a ‘ hume ’ character to the otherwise mute and very much stuffed fluffy playthings . |
| 37 | More direct if under-stated evidence comes from the retrospective questions posed in the first official birth control enquiry in 1946 ( Lewis-Faning 1949 ) ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 38 | On Sept. 25 , in the first official comment on the affair , Vellayati in New York denied the allegations currently gaining wide currency in the United States that Iran had negotiated with campaign officials of the Republican party to delay the release of the US diplomatic hostages on the eve of the 1980 presidential elections [ see pp. 38327-28 ] . |
| 39 | In the first official recognition of the extent of the outbreak , Dr Douglas Fleming , deputy director of the Birmingham research unit of the Royal College of General Practitioners , said there is now a ‘ substantial epidemic ’ which is likely to get worse . |
| 40 | Their inspirational demonstrations and innovative classes were long remembered by all those privileged to have been there , and resulted in the first regular Medau Adult Education class being established in Dagenham ESSEX in 1935 . |
| 41 | In the first legal case of it 's kind in an English court , a man 's been accused of raping his wife . |
| 42 | The analysis of maximum contributions determined during 1988–89 contained in the first Legal Aid Board Annual Report ( 1989–90 ) contains the following figures relating to all courts : |
| 43 | In the first legal definition , in the Crofter 's Holdings ( Scotland ) Act of 1886 , it was added that he resides on his holding , the annual rent of which does not exceed £30 in money , and which is situated in a ‘ crofting parish ’ . |
| 44 | In 1923 the Conservative Government once again introduced a subsidy scheme , under Neville Chamberlain , and the programme was developed in 1924 by John Wheatley , Minister of Health in the first Labour Government . |
| 45 | Would it be done in the first year of a Labour Government , in the first Labour Parliament , or in two or three terms , or will there be an exchange rate mechanism-type growing process whereby we get used to the idea over 10 or 15 years and the Scots can have it immediately because they are culturally and politically ready for it , but the people of the north , who are not that bothered , will have to wait 15 years until they see the advantages that will supposedly accrue to Scotland and then will mount the barricades and demand the same for themselves ? |
| 46 | In due course , she entered government as the wife of the President of the Board of Trade in the first Labour administration ( where her social background came in useful advising less elegantly born wives on ‘ clothes and curtseys ’ when visiting the Palace ) . |
| 47 | ‘ I might have died , you mean , ’ said Julia in the first lawyerly voice of her convalescence and then was sorry when she saw his face . |
| 48 | Celestial omens began to be used as portents on a considerable scale in the first Babylonian dynasty ( eighteenth to fifteenth centuries BC ) , although lunar eclipses may have been regarded as ominous previously . |
| 49 | Czechoslovakia goes to the polls this month in the first democratic election since 1946 . |
| 50 | ‘ My office is in the first sleeping car aft of the central dining car . ’ |
| 51 | example An essay pointing out that Shakespeare 's first sonnet ends with a comma in the first printed edition and arguing that this is because it is the first part of a larger poem including also the second sonnet . |
| 52 | Barbel Abela is competing in the first round-the-world air race in a fifty-year-old bomber . |
| 53 | As has been said , ‘ We love in as much as love was present in the first great affair of our lives ! ’ |
| 54 | Lara , who hit a brilliant century in the four-wicket win over Pakistan in the first one-day game , slammed 10 fours in his innings of 106 balls . |
| 55 | In the first comprehensive study of intestinal function in patients with diarrhoea caused by chronic radiation enteritis , we have shown a high prevalence of abnormalities in intestinal transit and absorption . |
| 56 | The simplest method of storage is to place a synonym in the first vacant record position following its home address . |
| 57 | Within a few years , she predicted , Christ 's kingdom would spread through Europe , and she warned the Dutch and Danes that in fighting England ( in the first Dutch war ) they were fighting God . |
| 58 | ‘ In the first split second you experience a feeling of numbness , of complete collapse within your chest and a cold wave of fright … the needles of the automatic printer drums and the monitoring instruments are swinging in all directions . ’ |
| 59 | And they took part in the first worldwide television broadcast , singing All You Need Is Love live to an estimated audience of 150 million . |
| 60 | The first letter of the word is stored simply as one of the rightmost 26 bits out of the 32 available in the first long integer . |