Example sentences of "have [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 31 | Many countries who received aid to introduce the Green Revolution had repressive regimes , whose policies had in the first place brought about the poverty . |
| 32 | I found it interesting to take one person , say the rector , Charles Henstock , and make him the chief character in one book and follow his fortunes , as I had in the first book about the great Mrs Curdle . |
| 33 | Fear of losing what we never had in the first place . |
| 34 | ‘ If we had stuck away some of the chances we had in the first half then we 'd have won it . ’ |
| 35 | The queen 's eldest son by her first husband , Thomas Grey , had in the first reign married the king 's niece Anne Holland , the daughter and heiress of Henry Holland duke of Exeter by Edward 's sister Anne . |
| 36 | The demands of Cold War politics prompted Aragon to go one step further and fabricate a fictional representation of Nizan 's treachery which had in the first instance itself been fabricated from Nizan " sown fictional productions . |
| 37 | Well I by good luck have had some copies of the petition sent down to me , so I started it , it immediately and I had in the first they made over one thousand one hundred and twenty five signatures . |
| 38 | Certainly a much better picture than the one we had in the first half of the year . |
| 39 | The queen 's eldest son by her first husband , Thomas Grey , had in the first reign married the king 's niece Anne Holland , the daughter and heiress of Henry Holland duke of Exeter by Edward 's sister Anne . |
| 40 | The best chance Town had in the first half came from this corner and it came from skipper Colin Calderwood . |
| 41 | He took the Canal Turn as fluently as he had on the first circuit , then swept towards Valentine 's Brook . |
| 42 | " Why are they doing all this work so early in the morning ? " she asked Captain Duro when he appeared on deck looking as spruce and polished as he had on the first day she met him . |
| 43 | The first secretary , Miss Coldharbour , Canon Wheeler 's immaculate conception , as Ian called her , had on the first day coolly returned Julia 's first batch of letters with mistakes marked in a soft shorthand pencil which proved difficult to eradicate cleanly with a rubber when the corrections had been made . |
| 44 | PAKISTANI authorities have for the first time begun arresting farmers in the North West Frontier Province who have been found planting opium for next year 's harvest . |
| 45 | South African authorities have for the first time permitted Mr Nelson Mandela to talk by telephone with exiled leaders of the African National Congress from the prison where he is held near Cape Town . |
| 46 | South Africa 's Muslims , rich in educational and managerial skills , now have for the first time a clear political objective of social justice . |
| 47 | For instance , we are well-used to integrating vocational assessments in care , but for the general SVQ we have for the first time found it necessary to set up meetings with colleagues delivering modules in numeracy , information technology and budget financing . |
| 48 | Scientists at La Jolla University , California , have for the first time established a link between nitrous oxide and the nylon industry . |
| 49 | Law was only giving credit where due when he said that these two groups ‘ have from the first been the main-props of the new National Free Church movement ’ . |
| 50 | They have in the first year written 30,000 plans with a total of £900 million sums assured recording £100 million in premium income . |
| 51 | The draw to decide which colour pieces the players have in the first of their 24 games ended with Kasparov gaining white — and so the opening move in the series which begins at London 's Savoy Theatre next Tuesday . |
| 52 | ‘ I just hope I can keep shooting birdies like I have in the first two rounds . ’ |