Example sentences of "the first [prep] [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quality of finish was n't too good at many points on our test tractor , either , but we have to assume it was largely because our machine was one of the first off the production line . |
| 2 | O'Leary is the first off the production line . |
| 3 | The manuscript , to be published by 1994 , is the first of a three-volume catalogue of the museums 's 1,100 piece collection of Roman and Byzantine glass . |
| 4 | In operating partially without paper , the bank is the first of a pilot group of 10 Belgacom clients , which have been experimenting with the phone company 's as-yet-unannounced Electronic Data Interchange service for the last 18 months . |
| 5 | Golding 's Lord of the Flies ( 1954 ) is in the third person , though like Defoe 's most famous novel it is about an island marooning ; but Rites of Passage ( 1980 ) — the first of the Tarpaulin trilogy — is a memoir-novel , composed not just in the first person but in a pastiche of the English of the Napoleonic wars , especially in its sea-terms — a sort of ‘ sub-Jane Austen language ’ , as he has breezily put it . |
| 6 | I do n't think so love there 's the first of the money lender so only a big one , once |
| 7 | Akagi and Kaga were the first of the battle fleet to arrive home , on December 24 , they were welcomed as heroes , Japanese propaganda had made sure of that . |
| 8 | ‘ — Arnold Bros , the store here in Blackbury which was the first of the Arnold chain and the basis of the multi-million trad … ing group . |
| 9 | Sources say SunPics was ‘ dragged kicking and screaming ’ into the brand new Sun Microsystems Inc and Adobe Computer Systems Inc alliance , ( UX No 404 ) , orchestrated by SunSoft Inc president Ed Zander , one of the first of the Sun mafia to come to grips with the slippery notion of standards — prodded no doubt by the coming onslaught of Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT . |
| 10 | My right hon. Friend will be aware that HMS Norfolk — the first of the Duke class — has been accepted into the fleet and has been completing work-up at Portland . |
| 11 | In this respect Excel has always been the first of the Windows spreadsheet , and incorporated much of the ease of use that Windows offered . |
| 12 | She recollected it falling on the face and sightless seeing eyes of Michael , the first of the Scarabae household she had ever beheld . |
| 13 | Shooter , described in court as a salesman , was caught after a plain-clothes police officer posed as a courier taking the first of the blackmail money to a pick-up point at Edinburgh Airport . |
| 14 | In the first of the Planning Policy Guidance documents published in January 1988 the government stated that the planning system ‘ should be efficient , effective and simple in conception and operation to facilitate much needed development and to strike the right balance between that development and the interests of conservation . |
| 15 | In the meantime the first of the warbird collection was two-seater Fury T.20S G–BCOW which had been bought from Doug Arnold at Blackbushe in 1976 and had previously been used in West Germany on contract to the Luftwaffe as a target tug . |
| 16 | In 1874 Elliot became the first of the coal industry 's business leaders to receive a baronetcy . |
| 17 | Be sure to apply before the first of the calendar month when you want the rebate to start . |
| 18 | The battle orders ring out in the Swindon dressing room … this is the first match of the season … the first game as a premier league team … the first of the summer tour of Finland … |
| 19 | AND speaking of thespians , the magnificent Bill Owen will be downing some of the first of the summer wine in a York pub tonight in support of Labour candidate Hugh Bayley . |
| 20 | ASDA 's superstore in Rawtenstall , Lancashire is to become the first of the supermarket chain 's English stores to get Cashline , and , following lengthy negotiations , a terminal is to be installed in the Royal Victoria Shopping Centre in Tunbridge Wells . |
| 21 | The Rawtenstall store is the first of the supermarket chain 's English stores to get Cashline , and to celebrate the occasion staff from the town 's branch handed out carrier bags and keyrings to shoppers as well as answering account enquiries . |
| 22 | Hopefully , this car will be the first of the Centenary class , replacing the OMOs , and maintaining the regular service for many years to come ! |
| 23 | The first of the BCRS winter meetings was held at the Public Hall , Bishop 's Castle , on Friday , 6 October 1989 . |
| 24 | Informix is the first with a DRDA product , it introduced Informix-Gateway for DRDA last month ( UX No 428 ) . |
| 25 | Informix is the first with a DRDA product : it introduced Informix-Gateway for Distributed Relational Database Architecture last month . |
| 26 | The first on the village green is in the style of an Eleanor Cross , and dedicated to men from the estate who died during the First World War . |
| 27 | I love to go out dancing but you wo n't catch me being the first on the dance floor ! |
| 28 | In so doing it suggested a small but distinct improvement on that model : the party-list vote should be the first on the ballot paper , not the second as it is in West Germany , and the constituency vote should come second instead of first . |
| 29 | The fulling mills still survived on site , although Stratford Mill 's involvement in the cloth trade drew to a close around 1738 , the first on the Painswick Stream to do so . |
| 30 | The first for a Recycling Centre will open on the fifteenth of April , nineteen ninety-one , at Garden Place , Girton , when the Mayor Ivy Mission will launch the scheme at eleven o'clock , by breaking an empty champagne bottle on the front of the first glass recycling skip . |