Example sentences of "first of " in BNC.
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| 1 | First of all , he knew how to listen — which is very rare . |
| 2 | He is the first of a long line of distinguished French portrait sculptors . |
| 3 | First of all , outside the city , next to a growth of forest , there is Thrushcross Grange . |
| 4 | Salim leaves them , takes off on the first of a series of ‘ flights ’ , and treks to the interior , to a country which appears to be compounded of the Congo and of Uganda , in order to earn a living from a store which he has acquired from a man whose daughter he is expected to marry one day . |
| 5 | Charlie 's departure is the first of several , and this event is succeeded by the announcement of a further theme when the rabbi 's thunderings pass over the heads of his congregation and the writer notes : ‘ in later years I would wonder how different my life might have been if a few people , those closest to me , had been frightened — just a little . ’ |
| 6 | first of all I 'm absolutely against having the controlled entry into Equity . |
| 7 | One has to remember that well into the nineteenth century British identity was predicated first of all of the English . |
| 8 | The first of these incidents occurred with the attempt to introduce a law on adoption . |
| 9 | First of all , the pub is an establishment where particular kinds of activity take place — the most important of which is informal social drinking , particularly of beer , our national drink . |
| 10 | The Harvest Holiday , as the report suggested , would be introduced in late October and would be the first of a series of changes to age-hold British holiday customs . |
| 11 | In the first of a two-part series , Michael Edwards selects wines which break the Italian mould |
| 12 | In 1953 , he was voted best actor and director for his theatre work , this was also the year in which he directed NAGARIK ( THE CITIZEN ) , the first of the eight feature films that he completed . |
| 13 | In the first of a new series , Richard Jackson of Radio 5 's Morning Edition looks at the quirky side of gardening life |
| 14 | To reduce these figures , two major national screening programmes have been introduced — the first of their kind in the European Community . |
| 15 | The first of the few blocks that can be used in competition to be considered are the slapping blocks . |
| 16 | First of all , it is a thrusting and not a snapping kick . |
| 17 | Leonard was a natural choice for the first of the new series , both in bearing and background he represented , not merely McGill , but Canada itself ; he was accordingly approached . |
| 18 | First of all , there have been important advances in experimental methods : single cell recordings with exquisitely fine electrodes ; novel methods of imaging the internal structure of neurons and the connections between them ; cell culture techniques permitting the growth and development of nervous systems to be studied in great detail ; and sophisticated computational and statistical analysis of data permitting better mathematical modelling of large and small scale events in the nervous system and its functional connections . |
| 19 | First of all , ’ asserts Pancho Segura , ‘ Jimmy was number one in his mobility on the tennis court . |
| 20 | In the first of three articles that follow the progress of a chair making project , Steve Goulden explains how he designs a chair , looking for robustness , comfort and elegance |
| 21 | The first of the new style Age Concern Forums , proposed by the Chairman 's Working Party , will be held on 30th October and is open to all Governing Body members to attend . |
| 22 | In November the first of these digests for the months July , August and September , will be available . |
| 23 | In making a decision on the first of the three cases cited , the Commissioner communicated with the Chief Executive of the National Health Service Management Executive , asking him about a health authority 's duty to provide continuing nursing care which is assessed as being needed , and which is not otherwise available . |
| 24 | A far cry from the £2 tray meal handed out on the first of the Scenic Land Cruise trains eight years earlier , in a decade of special-train running where sophistication got its chance — and left behind many ordinary folk for whom the railway ‘ excursion ’ is now but a fading memory . |
| 25 | He aimed to increase off-peak travel in particular by enhancing the quality of travel and station environment by ‘ Operation Pride ’ , a name coined to launch the quality improvement drive , and by new and imaginative marketing exercises , one of the first of which was a ‘ Network Day ’ on 21 June when over 200,000 people took advantage of the special £3 ticket enabling them to travel all day anywhere . |
| 26 | The first of these now widespread services began , in the summer of 1984 , between Chester and Newport , run by Gylee Enterprises ( whose ‘ operating manager ’ was a former Travellers-Fare station catering manageress ) . |
| 27 | ( Opposite below ) The first of the Class 47s — or Brush Type 4s as they were known when D1500 appeared in 1962 — still hard at work rom Gateshead depot in 1987. here No 47401 , as it is now numbered and carrying the name North Eastern which it both received and lost during the 1980s , nears Greenfield on a Trans-Pennine service , the 17.03 Liverpool to Newcastle on 19 June 1987 . |
| 28 | These dancers were placed in the first of Noverre 's categories . |
| 29 | Japanese The first of Ashton 's ballets in oriental style was Madame Chrysanthème , in which he utilised many traditional japanese gestures made more fascinating by emphasis of his dainty ballerina 's footwork . |
| 30 | It was the first of a range of ‘ year beers ’ . |