Example sentences of "the first [noun] under " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first trial under the Witchcraft Act of 1563 was held in Chelmsford in 1566 , when Agnes Waterhouse was hanged largely on the evidence of a small child . |
| 2 | There is a very useful collection of 111 vessels of the first half of the first century under ‘ Belgic Verulamium ’ ; a group of 18 vessels from the filling of an unfinished well-shaft dated by a coin of Pius ( 145 — 161 ) ‘ lost in fair condition ’ , and a stamp of the samian potter GERMINVS who is also found on the Antonine Wall ( 142 — 163 ) ; a pit group ( Pit 6 , Insula V ) of 14 vessels with a coin of Pius ( 154 — 155 ) ; 9 vessels from Triangular Temple , from the filling between two floors of the courtyard ; there follows 9 more vessels , from different places , and 15 predating the S.E. gate , and finally , there are 7 from Pit 5 in building IV , considered as late fourth and possibly fifth century . |
| 3 | Following Taylor v Taylor [ 1938 ] KB 320 , the year in question was that from the first payment under the lease , and given that four such payments had already been made , the right to deduct tax was lost . |
| 4 | The operation of this 3% in three year rule is likely to be unduly restrictive when it first applies because of the expected need to grant substantial new options to sharesave scheme participants and at the same time allow for the first allocations under the proposed executive share option scheme . |
| 5 | He added that the decision marked the first nationalisation under a Thatcher government . |
| 6 | In 1886 Douglas Fox and James Brunlees [ q.v. ] were knighted on completion of the first tunnel under the Mersey which , along with the railway linking Birkenhead with Liverpool , they had jointly engineered . |
| 7 | The accumulated rights , earned on the basis of Peru 's performance under its IMF-monitored adjustment programme , would then be encashed as the first disbursement under a successor IMF-supported programme . |
| 8 | ‘ I can play better , but I was reasonably happy with my game and I 'm delighted to have got the first tie under my belt , ’ said McCann . |
| 9 | David had originally made a demo with John Hutchinson , a demo which had been taken to Philips who were releasing in this country for Mercury Records in America , and they all agreed that this would be the first single under that contract . ’ |
| 10 | Jude the Obscure was serialised in Harper 's New Monthly Magazine between December 1894 and November 1895 , the first part under the title The Simpletons , but subsequently as Hearts Insurgent . |
| 11 | It was the first performance under the name Depeche Mode , and also David Gahan 's debut . |
| 12 | That weekend had been more strained than usual because Frances Shand Kydd — Earl Spencer 's former wife , and mother of his four children — was for the first time under the same roof as Raine . |
| 13 | The CNT — not for the first time under the Republic — was driven virtually underground and most of the UGT executive imprisoned . |
| 14 | American soldiers will serve for the first time under a non-American chief , a Turk . |
| 15 | Soviet military inspectors , acting for the first time under the CFE Treaty , completed inspections of French and UK military sites ( the latter in Germany ) on Sept. 20 and 21 [ for Soviet inspections under INF treaty see p. 38217 ] . |
| 16 | Our local PFA Inspector Pat Barker kept a keen eye on our progress , monitoring our workmanship at all the recognised stages throughout the build , and on 8 March this year , Midge 's propeller turned for the first time under her own engine power , being a Monday , I naturally had the day as holiday ! |
| 17 | Labour Party members had taken part in government for the first time under the wartime coalition of Lloyd George and with the support of the party 's National Executive Committee . |
| 18 | In June 1984 , small businesses were also required to provide security for the first time under the scheme , which obviously deterred many potential entrepreneurs and damaged the usefulness of the scheme . |
| 19 | ‘ In the first paddock under the gum trees . |
| 20 | This welcome volume , edited as was Volume II by Sheriff Irvine Smith , completes the project of the Stair Society of publishing a selection of the Justiciary Cases 1624–50 , the inception of which was signalised by the publication in 1953 of the first volume under the editorship of Sheriff Stair A. Gillon . |
| 21 | THE FIRST challenge under powers to appeal against judges ' decisions to ban the press and public from court failed in the Appeal Court yesterday . |
| 22 | For instance , two-note groups being constantly played with a heavy first note and a curtained second one , or the first note under each slur produced with an accent . |
| 23 | In the first appeal under consideration the company entered into four separate agreements with four separate persons between 1982 and 1985 . |
| 24 | The matter will therefore drag on for another month until the next management committee meeting , while Ferguson has to continue his return to the first team under awkward circumstances . |
| 25 | The Concertgebouw Orchestra played Brahms — the First Symphony under its regular conductor Edouard van Beinum , and the Third Symphony under a guest , George Szell , Ernest Ansermet conducted the Suisse Romande Orchestra in Debussy 's Nocturnes and Ravel 's Rapsodie espagnole . |
| 26 | The first Visitation under the new Headmaster took place between 19th and 21st June , 1848 ; present from Stockport were the Rev. C. K. Prescot and the Rev. J. Taylor , the Mayor , Mr. Newton , Mr. Sykes , and Mr. Marsland. 105 boys were enrolled in six classes , the numbers in each being 8 , 15,28 , 20 , 15 , and 19 . |
| 27 | There were lots more , there were even one or two who , like Albert ‘ Bertie ’ Gomes , had more than just a tentative grasp of the deadly art of Trinidadian politics and finally there was Uriah Butler , who in 1946 — ten years after he had instigated the oil field demonstrations — led the most successful campaign in the first elections under universal suffrage . |
| 28 | These were created or taken over by the state at various times since the first examples under the 1906–14 Liberal Government , but the largest group of Nationalization Acts covering coal , road and rail services , gas , electricity and iron and steel came under the 1945 — 51 Labour Government . |
| 29 | Should it be so decided , the first thing under review will be the road system which just about copes with the present traffic . |
| 30 | Observers believed that the ruling opened the way for the first prosecution under the UK War Crimes Act approved in May 1991 [ see p. 38219 ] , and that 30 members of a former Lithuanian police battalion living in the UK could soon be charged with the killing of thousands of civilians and Jews in eastern Europe during the Second World War . |