Example sentences of "the first [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Portland Group claims the compilers will be the first available for the Fujitsu micro-vector processor-Sparc architecture . |
| 2 | International fame was achieved after he joined the Marlborough Gallery in 1958 who were instrumental in organising the first retrospective at the Tate in 1962 , to be followed by major shows at the Grand Palais , Paris , in 1971 and the Tate in 1985 . |
| 3 | The dealer has also become something of a legend for his expertise in detecting the growing number of Basquiat fakes , an issue that is bound to attract further attention as the first retrospective of Basquiat 's entire career opens at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York this autumn . |
| 4 | The first retrospective of work by Niki de Saint Phalle , aged 63 , to reach the UK is an exhilarating revelation . |
| 5 | Of these , Busia was to make his mark later : an Oxford graduate , the first African to be taken into the Colonial Service ( in 1942 ) , he was exactly the type the British would have preferred . |
| 6 | ( For example , in channel flow with no variation of mean quantities in the x-direction , τ varies linearly across the channel as it does for laminar motion — the first integral of eqn ( 2.6 ) . ) |
| 7 | He was the first ex-professional to be so honoured . |
| 8 | Alan Shearer wore the number ten shirt with high hopes of scoring the goals in the first international since the retirement of Gary Lineker . |
| 9 | The first essential of healthy soil life is air , and this means good subsoil drainage and adequate inter-crumb pores . |
| 10 | The first essential of intensive fieldwork is that the fieldworker should be able to recognize everyone in his vicinity , not just as a set of individuals but as a set of individuals holding named titles to office who consider themselves to be related to one another in a particular way . |
| 11 | The first essential for a disciple is that he ( or she ) has met with the Lord and has chosen to follow Him . |
| 12 | The government has announced the opening of the first tender for exploration on its continental shelf . |
| 13 | BEFORE THE YEAR is out Paris should see the first sprouting of architect Jean Nouvel 's Tour Sans Fins . |
| 14 | He has not learned how to love properly , how to relate with a woman in a caring sense but , above all , he has not learned how to differentiate between an adolescent who is feeling the first stirring of her hormones and a fully-grown woman who is properly able to make her own emotional and sexual choices . |
| 15 | It was confirmed last night that Mr Lynch will work with Mr Bleasdale to plan the structure , budgets and contracts required for the ScotRail operating franchise — one of the first due to be set up under the privatisation plans . |
| 16 | This departure from high modernism can best be understood through examination of the historical avant-garde of the 1920s , which I think ( and shall argue ) was the first flourishing of postmodernist culture . |
| 17 | Sellafield 's Assistant Director , Projects and Decommissioning , , presented the prizes and paid tribute to organisers who had worked tirelessly from the first tee-off at 7.30 am to the presentation of the final raffle prize at 10.30 pm . |
| 18 | The election was also notable for the return of the first Communist to be elected since Shapurji Saklatvala lost Battersea North in 1929 . |
| 19 | In this election Phil Piratin secured election to Stepney borough council — the first Communist to be elected in the Metropolitan area since the " Labour-Communist " candidates of the early 1920s . |
| 20 | A second self expanding stent was inserted into the first stent in each case without longterm success , as obstruction occurred again after three months in both . |
| 21 | And so into the last , and smallest , of the three Basque provinces , La Soule , itself divisible into two parts , of the Upper and the Lower Soule , the first hard against the barrier of the high mountains to the south , the second relatively flat and bordering on Béarn . |
| 22 | There are spokespeople ( or speakers ) and individuals whose characters and strong views shape the movement : Sara Parkin , who lives in Lyons and is co-secretary of the co-ordinating body which links the European parties ; the Swiss Daniel Brélaz who , in 1979 , became the first Green to be elected to a national parliament ; Petra Kelly , the uncompromising driving force in the Fundi ( fundamentalist ) faction of Die Grünen , whose pragmatic factions , the Realos ( realistic reformers ) and Superrealos , seek to establish working relationships with the mainstream Left ; and a number , not very large number , of others . |
| 23 | I ca n't see that it matters , for the fact remains that it exemplifies the very finest and most elegant architecture which displays the first burgeoning of the English Renaissance . |
| 24 | The best cleavage is found at the central GpC ; all the ApT sites are cut at about 25% of this rate , except for the first ApT on the 5'-side which shows no detectable cleavage . |
| 25 | Pieter Coetzee , aged 62 , on Thursday became the first white to be hanged in the South African tribal homeland of Bophuthatswana , for a double murder in 1987. -Reuter . |
| 26 | Okay which says , er intr introducing our new product range of spring water available from May the first ready for the summer trade . |
| 27 | A SINGING Sikh is hoping to become the first Asian to be listed in the Guinness Book of Records — as a chartbuster . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , the first single to be released on Expo is ‘ Forfeit ’ by a band called Fuel — coming to a shop near you just about now . |
| 29 | The case had taken two weeks at the Old Bailey , the first devoted to legal argument before the jury was sworn . |
| 30 | The catalogue , containing essays by J. Patrice Marandel , Curator of European Sculpture at the Detroit Institute of Art ( and curator of the 1978 Chicago Show ) , Dianne Pitman , a Bazille scholar whose dissertation was the first devoted to his work , and François Daulte , author of the Bazille catalogue raisonné , is , remarkably , the first publication on Bazille in English . |