Example sentences of "of the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , your Land Rover is one of the first right hand drive home market vehicles . |
| 2 | Thus , at one stage in the meetings of the first International ( September 1864 ) , the followers of the French socialist , Proudhon , opposed any movements for national independence on the grounds that the concept of the nation was already obsolete . |
| 3 | Merson was a member of Graham Taylor 's England squad in Sweden and wants to be part of the first international gathering in Spain early next month . |
| 4 | Geoff Cooke left him out of the first international squad gathering on the grounds that Skinner had dropped down a division to play with Blackheath and therefore was obviously not too bothered about his international prospects . |
| 5 | When the attack finally came Madrid withstood it , thanks in part to the courage of the left-wing militias and the ordinary people of the city , and in part to the stiffening effect of the first International Brigades — foreign volunteers organized by the Comintern , who arrived at the crucial moment . |
| 6 | As it is one of the first international environmental GIS , the CORINE experience will be valuable in stimulating other , similar , projects and in providing experience on which other projects can draw . |
| 7 | The sickening that I was making a mess of the first real pitch of the first real pitch of IV± , and that I 'd have to take my sack off if I was going to stay on , swept over me . |
| 8 | The sickening that I was making a mess of the first real pitch of the first real pitch of IV± , and that I 'd have to take my sack off if I was going to stay on , swept over me . |
| 9 | Bernie Grant , representing Tottenham in the borough of Haringey and one of the first black MPs , was unequivocal and unambiguous in his opposition from the very start . |
| 10 | So ended the reign of the first black sporting symbol of significant proportions . |
| 11 | This study shows that using a prognostic equation containing only three variables : encephalopathy , prothrombin time , and the number of blood units transfused within 72 hours , specific outcome ( survival or death as a result of liver failure or exsanguination ) within six weeks of the first variceal haemorrhage of cirrhotic patients could be predicted in at least 89% of the cases . |
| 12 | This suggests that , besides the residual liver function , the amount of the first variceal haemorrhage as reflected by the transfusion requirements for 72 hours after admission , is a key variable for estimating short term survival . |
| 13 | Roger Perks , head of Baverstock , one of the first inner-city schools to opt out , received the OBE in the New Year Honours . |
| 14 | In 1915 he exhibited six works in the ‘ invited to show ’ non-members ' section of the first Vorticist exhibition , held at the Doré Galleries in London . |
| 15 | The government has announced the opening of the first tender for exploration on its continental shelf . |
| 16 | BACK in the Gdansk shipyards , one of the first Western thrillers ever filmed in Poland , Eminent Domain , stars Donald Sutherland ( Kiefer 's dad ) and Anne Archer from Fatal Attraction |
| 17 | The term itself only began to be generally used in the early nineteenth century in Western Europe , and one of the first systematic discussions is to be found in the book by Lorenz von Stein , where the social movement is portrayed as a struggle for greater social independence culminating in the class struggle of the proletariat . |
| 18 | Born in what was now Inner Mongolia , Ulanhu became one of the first Mongol members of the CCP when he joined in 1925 . |
| 19 | The bus stopped to pick up a passenger off one of the first terraced streets of the town . |
| 20 | One of the first official visits of the then Prime Minister , Margaret Thatcher , was to France , where the nuclear industry was forging ahead with a massive programme of PWRs , which were reportedly being built with record efficiency , speed and economy . |
| 21 | Exploration interest was boosted in 1979 by the results of one of the first deep wells drilled east of the Appalachian Front in West Virginia ( Fig. 1 ) . |
| 22 | Digital Equipment Corp has confirmed that its November 10 announcement of the first Alpha-based machines will include five systems ranging in power from a desktop workstation to a mainframe-class machine . |
| 23 | Thus we are told that Brook Taylor , the author of the first major British work on perspective ( 1715 ) , was ‘ a professional Newtonian scientist ’ ( p. 287 ) . |
| 24 | Excursions : Zell am See is a marvellous base for many lovely coach tours of the Baroque city of Salzburg with its ancient fortress ; the Grossglockner , a climb up one of the first major Alpine highways ( opened in 1935 ) to see Austria 's highest mountain , set amidst the everlasting snows of the Pasterze glacier ; the Krimml waterfalls ; Vienna : Kaprun : St. Wolfgang and Hallstatt in the Salzkammergut , and even Venice . |
| 25 | One of the first major attractions was the Sir Hiram Maxim flying machine , opened in 1904 and still operating today ! |
| 26 | One of the first major pieces of legislation controlling what information went on packets was passed as recently as 1953 . |
| 27 | It is significant that one of the first major published attacks on Indirect Rule was written by a Northern Nigeria DO , Walter Crocker , whose animus against the system clearly arose not from disagreement with its basic principles but from the fact that DOs were allowed so little responsibility within it . |
| 28 | One of the first major changes to tram services , was to affect the Croydon area . |
| 29 | Mr Lawrence 's appointment was one of the first major changes to hit the organisation after its new corporate identity was launched in 1986 . |
| 30 | Roberta M. Olson Ottocento : romanticism and revolution in nineteenth-century Italian painting ( The American Federation of Arts and Centro Di , New York and Florence , 1992 ) 293pp. fully illustrated in b/w and col. $67.95 Catalogue of the first major exhibition on this topic to be seen by an American audience since 1949 ( see The Art Newspaper , No. 22 , November 1992 , p.11 ) . |