Example sentences of "to the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I SUPPOSE a lot of people are waiting to greet the first cuckoo of spring , but I was looking forward to the first hedgehog of spring . |
| 2 | The Scarabee d'Or is based on the upcoming AX 4wd and , says Heuliez , is a homage to the first crossing of the Sahara , led by Andre Citroen in December 1922 . |
| 3 | We urge you to consider our request for a nursery to be attached to the first school to give the children a head start in their education . |
| 4 | Hughes , aged29 , has a remarkable record going back to the first women 's World Championships in 1980 including a world gold in 1986 , world bronze in 1987 and two European titles . |
| 5 | The Lancet 's sustained opposition to the first women doctors , the ‘ advance guard of the Amazonian army ’ as it dubbed them , was argued on the grounds that young ladies would be rendered indelicate , and by implication immoral , by attending lectures and dissections on human anatomy and pathology . |
| 6 | I shall refer to the first case as Mr. A. He wrote to me in March saying : |
| 7 | He was elected to the first Protectorate Parliament in 1654 for King 's Lynn , and again to the second in 1656 , this time on a double return which was rejected . |
| 8 | From this position he could not expect to be prominent going to the first bend , the clubhouse turn , and Shoemaker held him back in about eighth place , some four horses out from the rails , as the runners came past the stands . |
| 9 | The latest Williams-trained discovery , New Level , looks outstanding in the first heat of the Regal Puppy Trophy , having won his first three races and never being headed to the first bend . |
| 10 | What they 're saying in effect is that they 're not going to entrust their latest toy to their closest ally because we 'd flog it to the first Russian we came across . ’ |
| 11 | The resulting expert system was built from historical data from 15 boards and tested with the data from a further 3 examples and gave similar results to the first expert system built . |
| 12 | The first man cycled to the first mark and left the cycle and hurried on , on foot . |
| 13 | He only ever puts the gas on half-way to the first mark on the knob and in the winter keeps the central heating down to sixty degrees : " I sit with the blanket round me . " |
| 14 | Barthelsson was over the line at the start , put in his 720° turn and still beat Österlund to the first mark , a lead which he held until the end . |
| 15 | However , once the gun has gone they are not allowed to shut you out by sailing above the course to the first mark . |
| 16 | It used to be said that it was the attempt by the Seljuks to prevent Christians from reaching Jerusalem which led to the First Crusade . |
| 17 | Walk : if the pitcher throws four balls before a third strike , the batter is automatically ‘ walked ’ to the first base . |
| 18 | She stepped carefully from her platform to the first foothold and put her hand in his . |
| 19 | ( Note how one of these is identical to the first Tristan chord ( Example 102 ) , with the addition of the bass D. ) One peculiarity to be observed is the leap B-G from one substitution note to another in the melody . |
| 20 | Reintroduced foods should be fed in the morning , and again in the afternoon , if there was no reaction , or only a slight reaction , to the first feeding . |
| 21 | He quickly ran over to the first hangar . |
| 22 | We will assign any node j for which or is basic to the first generation and say that the parent of j is 1 , writing P(j) = 1 . |
| 23 | x 29 , x 41 , x 59 , x 87 and x 97 , then nodes 4 and 9 are assigned to the first generation and P(4) = P(9) = 1 . |
| 24 | Now for each node i assigned to the first generation , we assign any node j ( –1 ) , not already assigned , for which x i j or x j i is basic , to the second generation and set P(j) = i ( i is the parent of j ) . |
| 25 | As sport is popularly thought of as a leisure time distraction rather than a central life interest or a possible career , it would have held only a marginal interest to the first generation . |
| 26 | Where the revenue is given in lump-sum form to the first generation , the results are different . |
| 27 | The council later abandoned its plans to widen the highway and the reversion passed to the first defendants , who were not a highway authority . |
| 28 | By applying a 20p rate to the first £2,000 of taxable income , we have cut taxes for all 25 million taxpayers , and taken the four million on lowest incomes out of 25p tax altogether . |
| 29 | There are three different rates of income tax : the new 20 per cent rate introduced in the 1992 Budget which applies to the first £2,000 of your taxable income ; the 25 per cent basic rate tax which applies to the next slice of taxable income between £2,000 and £23,700 ; and the 40 per cent higher rate tax which is levied on all taxable income over £23,700 . |
| 30 | One ‘ sweetener ’ , deliberately leaked beforehand , is likely to be the widening of the 20 per cent income tax , which currently applies only to the first £2,000 of taxable income . |