Example sentences of "the first [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By comparison with his three immediate predecessors — Kilwardby , Pecham and Winchelsey — he may well appear near illiterate , and , except for Hubert Walter in the 1190s , he was the first archbishop to combine the primacy with the chancellorship of the realm , which tended rather to compromise the first than the second office . |
| 2 | But , in support of the maternal depletion syndrome , perhaps contrary to popular belief , it appears from these data that a baby has better chances of being born alive to a woman in the 40–44 years age group if it is the first than the sixth or a higher order . |
| 3 | It was the first airedale I 'd seen for years , maybe the first since the two that shadowed my childhood . |
| 4 | With the exception of the war years , last year was the first since the Labour Government of the 1920s in which no new starts were made on council dwellings in Wakefield . |
| 5 | In the Land elections in Bavaria on Oct. 14 , the first since the death on Oct. 3 , 1988 , of the CSU 's charismatic leader Franz-Josef Strauss [ see p. 36496 ] , the CSU maintained its absolute majority . |
| 6 | An Israeli air raid on Feb. 20 , the first since the recent deployment of the Lebanese army , destroyed a building in Ezzi , close to the Lebanese-Syrian border . |
| 7 | The third summit of the Arab Maghreb Union ( AMU ) — the first since the Gulf crisis began in August 1990 — was held in Ras Lanuf , Libya , on March 10 . |
| 8 | The impending general election was the first since the launch of the opposition Democratic Party of the Left ( PDS — formerly the Communist Party ) [ see p. 37785-86 ] , the consequent foundation of the Communist Refoundation Party ( PRC ) [ see p. 38689 ] , and the rise of a number of regional autonomy parties [ see p. 38021 ] which had scored important successes in local elections . |
| 9 | The amendment — the first since the Constitution was adopted in 1978 — would allow EC citizens to stand in municipal elections . |
| 10 | The meeting of the chiefs of staff committee in Moscow was the first since the agreement on the structure of the CIS high command , which had been concluded by heads of state at their Moscow summit meeting on July 6 [ see pp. 39017-18 ] . |
| 11 | The sixth round was the longest to date and the first since the election of a new Labour government in Israel in June [ see p. 38945-47 ] . |
| 12 | The 14th congress of the Chinese Communist Party ( CCP ) , the first since the violent suppression of China 's pro-democracy movement in 1989 and the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union , was held in Beijing on Oct. 12-18 . |
| 13 | Refusing both the taxpayer 's applications , Mr Justice Harman said in respect of the first that the 30 day time limit prescribed by s 56(4) , TMA 1970 was mandatory . |
| 14 | This was the first that the community of professional scientists had heard about it , and it caused the pair much trouble during the subsequent months as it became clear that several of the claims were wrong . |
| 15 | unc It is apparent from the first that the vector elements are changing sign ; so we do not reduce a homologous element to unity ( though in general we might periodically remove a power of 10 ) . |
| 16 | The next move was to bring forward the draft of the new constitution : the first that the Secretary of State knew of this was when he read a report in The Times ( 20 May ) headed ‘ A Republic of Burma ’ . |
| 17 | He should have known from the first that the chasm which lay between them would not be so easy to cross . |
| 18 | In two recent cases , the first that the teachers involved knew about the accusation was when the police arrived at their homes without warning , searched the premises and took away quantities of personal possessions . |
| 19 | C : Aye , not the first nor the last you caused , neither . |
| 20 | NICRA was the best-known civil rights group but it was neither the first nor the only organisation to agitate on civil rights demands . |
| 21 | Although John Locke was neither the first nor the last philosopher to address a problem which artists and aestheticians as well as other philosophers constantly must face , he exerted a telling influence on its history . |
| 22 | This second problem is more dangerous than the first because the user may not realize that information is missing . |
| 23 | The courts upheld the method adopted and rejected both the alternatives suggested , the first because the shareholders were not ‘ part owners of the undertaking ’ and the second because the regulation implied that each holding was to be separately valued . |
| 24 | This is not , of course , the only or the first or the commonest use of the word ; we have borrowed it from people who believe in gods . |
| 25 | It would not be the first or the last time . |
| 26 | Newton was not the first or the only great scientific thinker of the time . |
| 27 | ( d ) Both operands are in accumulators and the result replaces the contents of one of the accumulators , whether the first or the second usually being fixed for a particular computer ( as with two-address instructions ) . |
| 28 | In none of these cases does either the first or the second element qualify as a semantic constituent : |
| 29 | As the view from its windows alters at sunset ‘ into a distant phantom ’ , so too will the house , ‘ not the first or the last of beautiful things that look so near and will so change ’ . |
| 30 | I think it 's the around about the first or the second of April . |