Example sentences of "of [noun prp] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the East German trains pulled into the border station of Hof the first refugees , many of them in tears , were greeted with cheers , applause and a local youth group singing the Beatles song ‘ Let It Be ’ . |
| 2 | The Andes of Peru , for example , provided animals like the llama and alpaca which were domesticated approximately 7 kyr BP , and in the Tehuacán Valley of Mexico the first permanent agricultural systems of the Americas were developed c. 8 or 9 kyr BP . |
| 3 | ‘ The Castles of Edward the First ’ and ‘ Medieval Festivals ’ would take up the afternoon . |
| 4 | Within ten minutes you were in your bed , reading hand-outs on ‘ The Castles of Edward the First ’ and ‘ Medieval Festivals ’ . |
| 5 | The loss of Caledor the first was a grievous blow to the Elves . |
| 6 | I fell madly in love with this area of Scotland the first time I set eyes on it , and subsequently crawled all over it for years , marvelling at how many caves Bonnie Prince Charlie managed to occupy in his escape from the Redcoats . |
| 7 | At the end of May the first meeting of the London and South East branch of the S.D.R.R.S. was held in the Camden Irish Centre and it is hoped that this branch and its members will make a valuable contribution to the restoration effort . |
| 8 | By the end of October the first frosts have generally cleared away those devils , the colours are on the hill and the bellowing back in the glens . |
| 9 | At the end of August the first arbitration case was decided upon . |
| 10 | At the beginning of September the first official estimates suggested that insurance companies would have to pay up to $7,300 million in damage claims arising from Andrew , making it the most costly natural catastrophe in US history . |
| 11 | Sir Kenelm Digby , philosopher-scientist , soldier-diplomat , ardent royalist , lifelong friend and confidant of Charles the First 's widow , Queen Henrietta Maria , was born in 1603 and died in 1664 . |
| 12 | The guild hall has a statue of Charles the first , Charles the second and Queen Anne over the top . |
| 13 | All the same , what would you think of these reasons for inserting a piece of autobiography into the second defence of the English people , a defence of course for cutting off the head of Charles the First . |
| 14 | Novelist , Andrew Field , claims to have discovered the lost chronicle of Edward de Vere in a hidden compartment of a desk in Chipping Norton , and he 's written a convincing novel round the supposed documents , supporting the theory that de Vere was a diplomat scholar and soldier beloved of Elizabeth the first , that he in fact , wrote the plays and the sonnets . |
| 15 | Although he could trace his ancestors back to the reign of James the first , he had not been able to find a single man on that tree of immoralities — even to the bloodiest root — who had caused , either by his hand or hiring , what he , Estabrook , was out this midnight to contrive : the murder of his wife . |
| 16 | However , Microsoft says its projected sales of one million copies of NT the first twelve months it 's out are not highly dependent on Pentium . |
| 17 | Microsoft Corp says its projected sales of 1m copies of NT the first 12 months of sales are not highly dependent on Pentium . |