Example sentences of "[art] first [noun sg] of [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the London Mercers ' Company presented a petition attacking clerical malpractice to the first session of that parliament , Henry allowed it to be transformed into three statutes , which curbed abuses in the areas of pluralism and non-residence , and in the exaction of probate and mortuary fees . |
| 2 | But Tudor Parliaments allowed indirect revenue to slip almost out of their grasp by granting tonnage and poundage , automatically it seems , to each Tudor monarch for life in the first session of each reign . |
| 3 | The cliffs near our cottage , we discovered on the first day of that holiday , were wild and forbidding : of ancient , dark volcanic rock . |
| 4 | ( 4 ) Subject to section 13(2) of this Act , if no application is made for the renewal of a licence at the quarterly meeting mentioned in subsection ( 3 ) above , the licence shall expire on the first day of that meeting . |
| 5 | Anyway , on the first day of that summer term , I remember sitting alone in the cafeteria , slowly drinking my cup of coffee , and listening as all around me people welcomed each other back from their holidays . |
| 6 | In my own survey of visitors to the British Museum in which teams of five interviewers worked for four separate weeks interviewing at the museum entrances I made sure that I was present for at least the first day of each survey and was available by phone during the rest of the time . |
| 7 | The first day of each survey was crucial in sorting out minor problems for the interviewers which only came to be recognized once the fieldwork was under way . |
| 8 | On the first day of each Workshop , participants will work through a series of case studies and discussion groups will consider the preparation of course documentation . |
| 9 | ( 2 ) A licensing board may adjourn any meeting held by virtue of subsection ( 1 ) above from time to time during the period of one month next following the first day of such meeting , but no longer . |
| 10 | BORN on the first day of this century — so we always know how old he is — George Singleton is a veteran of the golden age of cinema . |
| 11 | I had hoped to have had the privilege of catching your eye , Mr. Deputy Speaker , on the first day of this debate , when it is acknowledged to be a free-for-all and any subject can follow another . |
| 12 | When it is the first day , put your hands down while we 're ex while I 'm explaining this , when you say when it 's the first day of any month whether it 's the first of February or the first of April or the first of December , instead of say you say this word you say for the first of the month |
| 13 | The other guideline which was issued was namely that of capital , where the a accepted the general guidelines which appeared in the county papers and as far as this Committee was concerned , would mean the general acceptance of all those items which appear in that the first year of that capital programme , subject to the proviso that the revenue contemplated and the benefits of the capital programme will be considered by Policy Panel in its forthcoming meeting . |
| 14 | Each year the amount has gone up by inflation , and yet we see something approaching thirty thousand underspent on previous years , and here we are looking in the first year of this council to a , a , at least a five percent overspend and er , I wonder if we 've erm , excluded the time when there were n't many meetings at the beginning if we would n't have seen a considerably larger overspend . |
| 15 | Thousands of caribou perished in just the first year of this dam . |
| 16 | The first year of this course is also offered at Portadown College of Further Education and at Belfast College of Technology . |
| 17 | At the end of the first year of this course students may , subject to satisfactory performance , transfer to the second year of the BSc Hons/Ord Applied Computing at Magee College ( see page 160 ) . |
| 18 | In fact before the first year of this trial was completed , some 80 per cent of decision packages were approved almost automatically and resources were directed at the remaining 20 per cent of packages . |
| 19 | In the first year of this project , it is planned to prepare a machine-readable version of all the detailed tax indentures and rolls for subsequent analysis using the data retrieval system known as Personal Data System on the University of Oxford ICL 2988 computer . |
| 20 | The first exploration of this theme was made by Kummer ( 1968 ) in research on hamadryas in Ethiopia . |
| 21 | The Scottish club , trailing 1–0 after the first leg of this second round tie , had to wait only 13 minutes before levelling the scores . |
| 22 | Kaiserslautern , 3-1 up from the first leg of this second round tie , twice hit Trevor Francis 's team on the break in the second half . |
| 23 | I WILL by your kinda town ; I WILL host the first leg of this year 's most significant ‘ alternative ’ rock event , and I WILL send my splendid , scrubbed , windswept children to worship at the feet of its various missionaries . |
| 24 | For the first hour of that morning , from eight until nine , Coffin worked at home , drinking tea and making forays to the telephone . |
| 25 | George Oldham became the first chairman of any region to serve a second term of office . |
| 26 | An unused kitchen located on the first floor of this block , provided the necessary space for a new Staff Room , Kitchenette and Toilets , with supplementary Staff Toilets , Lockers and Resources Area being located in the link to the three storey block . |
| 27 | By remembering that , application of these criteria for equilibrium to equation ( 8.33 ) leads to the first derivative of that equation while the second derivative is where the subscript c denotes critical conditions . |
| 28 | DNA types were designated by the first initial of each family surname , and DNA subtypes by the addition of ‘ a ’ or ‘ b ’ ( Table I ) . |
| 29 | In the first generation of this project the user specifies spatial queries using system implementation concepts which are made comprehensible ( and refined through testing ) . |
| 30 | The rate ratio for admission was similar when only the first admission of each child was counted ( 27 vs 42 , rate ratio 0.65 [ 0.41–1.04 ] , p=0.09 ) . |