Example sentences of "to the first of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It led to the first of his nine England caps , mostly on tour , where his tubby enthusiasm and — from behind the ropes anyway — his seemingly unathletic , but jauntily optimistic matelot 's gait have endeared him to crowds . |
| 2 | A moving spectator caught her eye as she swung and she hooked into sand on her way to the first of three successive bogeys . |
| 3 | The next letter from Miller , dated 2 February 1756 , acknowledged three from Bartram and two boxes of plants and he added ‘ To the first of your letters , I returned an answer in September last , but for fear it may miscarry , I beg leave to repeat the substance of that here . ’ |
| 4 | A. W. McClellan , whose writings on this subject are indispensable reading , refers to the first of these approaches as ‘ logistic ’ and the second as ‘ bibliographical ’ . |
| 5 | a reference to the first of Sir Walter Scott 's Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft contributed to the first number of Murray 's Family Library ( 1830 ) . |
| 6 | Some astronomers have convincingly argued that a BL Lac object ( a clumsy terminology referring to the first of this class to be discovered ) is simply a quasar with one of its beams pointing straight at us . |
| 7 | He referred me to the first of several psychiatrists I was to visit for a year . |
| 8 | Here we come to the first of many possible variations , in that this change of gain may be continuously variable or switched between two different values . |
| 9 | Probyn is one of the few players on the international scene to have played the game at every level : from Old Albanians , Streatham and Croydon through Richmond and Wasps to the first of his 33 caps in 1988 . |
| 10 | In his manner of thought and sympathies , Anselm belonged to the first of these two periods , both with regard to the organization of the Church and the supremacy of the monastic foundations which had maintained the spiritual life of Europe for three or four hundred years . |
| 11 | The track continues west along the edge of the escarpment before turning left to the first of many little lakes — Parabaun . |
| 12 | As the answer to the first of these shows , the pair are closely linked ; for there appear to be two kinds of criteria for identifying the dominant instance of a society , which are more or less explicitly mentioned in Althusser 's work . |
| 13 | On May 17th a partial but telling answer to the first of these questions emerged when US West , one of America 's huge regional Bell telephone companies , said it would pay $1.5 billion for a 25% stake in Time Warner Entertainment ( TWE ) , the cable-TV and film subsidiary of the world 's biggest media conglomerate , whose stars include Mel Gibson ( pictured above ) . |
| 14 | So far , we have discussed evidence which is particularly relevant to the first of these issues , but which also has implications for the second . |
| 15 | We now come to the first of the simpler tests for irreducibility over Q[x] . |
| 16 | As to the first of these , the Report simply endorses Board of Education thinking on the educational value of English , and more particularly English literary works . |
| 17 | The last beach along here before you come to the first of the rocky headlands that are so prettily characteristic of Biarritz 's coastline , is called the Chambre d'Amour or Chamber of Love , after an old depression in the sand where two lovers are said to have put themselves well and truly on the map by being surprised in their amours by the Atlantic tide . |
| 18 | Their Lordships turn to the first of the orders under appeal , namely the order of Barnett J. refusing to overturn the decision of Judge Cameron not to grant a perpetual stay of the Barclays ( Asia ) prosecution . |
| 19 | As to the first of Mr. Collins ' propositions , I have no doubt that Lautro was and is obliged to exercise its powers fairly . |
| 20 | As to the first of those points , the ability of the courts to control the visitor by the prerogative writs has been established by many cases . |
| 21 | As we sat down to the first of many repetitive meals of salted fish and ground corn , I broached the question of finding a prahu which might carry us as far as Aru . |
| 22 | Many people would claim that the role of science is confined to the first of these and that theoretical physics will have achieved its goal when we have obtained a complete set of local physical laws . |
| 23 | He slowed as he came to the first of the two rows , leaning across the dashboard in order to be able to see up the slope . |
| 24 | They moved on , following it up to the first of the ruined buildings . |
| 25 | Do any specific cells or synapses show changes which correspond to the behavioural adaptation ? — a question , which , of course , relates to the first of my criteria above . |
| 26 | The present chapter gives further consideration to the first of these apparent inconsistencies . |
| 27 | The answer to the first of those three points is that the Home Secretary will shortly be publishing his promised and much looked forward to paper on criminal prevention . |
| 28 | Joshua Morris submitted himself to the first of the day 's body-searches . |
| 29 | Martin walked carefully along a narrow path that would tortuously between ancient graves and heavy , ornate tombstones until he came to the first of the family plots . |
| 30 | I filled the plastic detergent-bottle and primed the lighter , left it lying on the top of the bank most of the rabbit holes were in , then went back to the first of the blocked-up holes and lit the fuse with my disposable cigarette-lighter . |