Example sentences of "some [prep] the first " in BNC.
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1 | The tournaments have not only provided performance players ( 12–16 years of age ) , with realistic , intensive and challenging winter competition , they have also provided emerging new competitors aged 10 and 11 to the joys and pressures of competition , some for the first time . |
2 | The prospect of the full range being available in its entirety in Japan by the end of 1991 , has spurred new disc development , some for the first time incorporating graphics and sound . |
3 | This year he is revisiting those parts , and visiting some for the first time , for a series of regional bookselling reports for The Bookseller . |
4 | No matter how bad the weather , you can always find some sheltered stretches , and there is normally the bonus of seeing some of the first swallows and martins of the year as well . |
5 | With a dry wit and an infectious Brooklyn drawl , Karen , as part of the Flatbush-based Soulboys group of club-runners , was responsible for some of the first illegal parties in New York , as well as having the much-coveted job of doorperson at various Manhattan clubs . |
6 | When Spurgeon opened Pastor 's College in 1856 some of the first pupils were illiterate but he insisted that his aim was to equip ‘ a class of ministers who will not aim at lofty scholarship , but at the winning of souls — men of the people ’ . |
7 | Yet the same writer lamented that some of the first students ‘ in many cases alienated the more thoughtful minds from the denomination ’ . |
8 | Some of the first references are to a fulling mill , known during the latter part of the 17th century , as Fields Mill . |
9 | Some of the first life course sociologists assumed that this gradual ageing process was also socially unidirectional , towards ‘ disengagement ’ , as if in acceptance that life itself was ebbing away . |
10 | They were some of the first cars to be withdrawn when the fleet was modernised , and they were scrapped in 1934 . |
11 | To live in these courts must have been like living in perpetual gloom , thank goodness they were some of the first to go during the rehousing purge between the wars . |
12 | Thus , in some of my own research into theatre audiences , at a time when virtually nothing was known about who goes to the theatre , some of the first surveys I carried out were concerned with eliciting data on people 's age , education , social class , who they went with , how they heard about the play , and so on . |
13 | This school was to have been patronised by some of the first noblemen and gentlemen of the country , and Clark had the fullest assurance that the government would aid and support his venture . |
14 | As we drive from mine to exhausted mine I chat with some of the first group about doing geology . |
15 | Somewhere here were the contributions of Duroc 's ancestors : a series of articles co-written by Pierre Henri Duroc and Donatien Alphonse Francois , Marquis de Sade , speculating on the limits of the human mind when confronted with endless pain ; some transcripts from the meetings of Robespierre 's Committee of Public Safety , in which the fates of some of the first families of France were decided on a whim ; a suppressed account of certain discoveries in a pre-human city that came to light in 19th-century French Equatorial Africa before the cyclopean stones mysteriously sank into the soft jungle earth ; Cauchemar et Fils , Maitres des Mondes Perdues , an unpublished novel by M. Jules Verne that was purchased from the author by a Great-Great-Great-Uncle and consigned to obscurity because it described a steam-driven engine to open up a gateway to a world of dreams that bore a remarkable similarity to a device that the Duroc of the time had indeed developed . |
16 | [ since ] the aim of achieving a strong competitive position in international markets , or at least the concern not to be at a disadvantage in comparison with competitors in other countries was one of the chief arguments advanced by some of the first employers ' associations against proposals for social reforms through protective labour and social legislation . |
17 | Atrium Technologies Inc , Austin , Texas , the new start-up by Tivoli Systems founder Bob Fabbio ( UX No 419 , is going to preview its never-before-seen software packages this week at ComNet , some of the first stuff built for the Open Software Foundation 's Distributed Computing Environment , DCE . |
18 | Bull has already revealed details of its Integrated Systems Management effort , based around the Open Software Foundation 's Distributed Management Environment , and is now working on some of the first practical applications to run on top . |
19 | It is possible Minton also knew that the house was built on the site of former warehouses where some of the first slaves brought to Britain were unloaded and where many died . |
20 | In at least two of the areas I visited the regional health authority and some of the first wave fundholders were wrangling over the savings accrued during the first year . |
21 | ROGER GANN FASTENS HIS SEATBELT AND TESTS SOME OF THE FIRST 33MHz PCs TO STORM ONTO THE SCENE . |
22 | Some of the first newly-planned settlements were established by Victorian industrialists themselves , but a long process of government legislation culminated in the passing , between 1945 and 1950 , of comprehensive Town and Country Planning legislation , including provision for New Towns and National Parks but also a characteristically negative policy toward the expansion of cities themselves . |
23 | Some of the first of these were made by a pupil of McConnell 's , Allan Jacobson , in Los Angeles , who announced in 1965 that if he trained rats to approach the food dispenser of their cage when a light flashed or a clicking sound was made , then killed the animals , extracted the RNA from their brains and injected it into the gut cavity of untrained animals , these now tended to approach the dispenser when the appropriate stimulus — click or light — was given , even though the dispenser was now empty of food and the animals received no reward . |
24 | Although we have no record , the Magnolia Grandiflora from the United States that clothe the wall of the north wing of the house must have been some of the first plantings of magnolias at Lanhydrock ; I would guess that are now well inside their second century . |
25 | In 1898 , on the Torres Straits expedition , he performed some of the first experiments in cross-cultural psychology and also developed the genealogical method as a key to the study of social organization . |
26 | In the seventeenth century some of the first Fellows of the Royal Society had been interested in spirits and ghosts . |
27 | Since an earlier study ( Wing , 1988 ) had reported no improvement in client experience of some of the first people to move out of Darenth Park Hospital , in services which themselves turned out to replicate many of the organizational features of the hospital , it was decided to include some measures of the physical and social environment as well as of client experience . |
28 | Some of the first customers were the crew of aircraft carrier HMS Invincible on a courtesy visit to Hong Kong . |
29 | On examination , it appears that some of the first papers were published in specialist journals , none of which appears in the highly-ranked journal set . |
30 | Some of the first Lombard Scheme MBA graduates with the Institute 's President |