Example sentences of "first [noun sg] [be] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first chart is of the consonant phonemes for one dialect of English . |
| 2 | Right , the first addition is on the last page under the erm the Royal Hall of Ministers and Elders to er remember their . |
| 3 | The Nicholson a double in the big meeting at Ascot … first winner was For the Grain and then good old Waterloo Boy won the major race of the day … |
| 4 | Is it within your power to draw the Prime Minister 's attention to the fact that his first responsibility is to the House of Commons , that there is a Prime Minister 's Question Time every Tuesday and Thursday and that we have a Foreign Secretary and a Secretary of State for Defence who are quite able to deal with international and defence commitments overseas ? |
| 5 | Her first responsibility was to the children , she acknowledged with a sigh . |
| 6 | Edward 's first responsibility was for the receipt and expenditure of the money assigned for the operations , a responsibility discharged through a special exchequer set up in 1246 , over which he presided . |
| 7 | My first sympathy is with the people that they 're in there because of , if you see what I mean ? |
| 8 | The first course was on the table when we went into the dining-room . |
| 9 | The first change was in the means test itself . |
| 10 | Given the government 's commitment to control public expenditure and reduce taxation , her main troubles in the first term were with the major spending departments and with ministers who favoured some further reflation to ease unemployment . |
| 11 | Because already the First Horseman is in the world of the Future . |
| 12 | His first question was about the time she was having , his first statement that the cat — and he — were doing fine . |
| 13 | The first type is within the parish and is significant but limited ; the second is across parish boundaries and is extremely difficult ! |
| 14 | The first requirement is for the terms to be written in grammatically correct English — errors of grammar may disguise or even distort the meaning of a term . |
| 15 | The first peculiarity is over the crossing , which has a stumpy octagonal tower and pointed roof with , on the inside , a dome built in a style similar to that of Sainte-Croix in Oloron , that is , with the ribs of the vault forming an eight-pointed star ( without artificial lighting you can see almost nothing of this decoration , and the artificial lighting comes expensive at L'Hôpital-Saint-Blaise ; you need ten-franc coins to work it ) . |
| 16 | There are two columns of measurements to enter , the first column being for the actual body measurements and the second for the amount of ease that you wish to add to each of the actual measurements . |
| 17 | whilst , if a privilege existed , it was up to the House to decide whether there had been a breach , the existence of the privilege in the first place was for the common law to decide and it was for the courts , and not the House , to declare the common law . |
| 18 | And so off I went then and me first job was at the Dye Works , but just at the shop delivering , as a delivery boy . |
| 19 | After winning the Enfield by-election in 1984 , his first job was in the whip 's office , followed by a stint as junior health minister . |
| 20 | ‘ I had just finished my university course , and my first job was in the south of France , very close to that little village where your house is . ’ |
| 21 | Bunter , whose first appearance was in the Magnet comic in 1908 , was last seen on television in the 1950s , with Gerald Campion in the title role . |
| 22 | Their first allegiance was to the Messiah whose embrace they eagerly awaited . |
| 23 | The first marketplace was on the site of Široká Street . |
| 24 | My very first race was at the White City Stadium . |
| 25 | First drink is on the house . |
| 26 | The first occasion was in the wake of the Czech crisis and the Munich agreement of 1938 . |
| 27 | The first occasion was in the early 1980s when it and the Stock Exchange spent three years trying to develop an automated settlements system for the gilts market before the Bank took over total responsibility for the project in 1985 to develop what has become the highly effective Central Gilts Office . |
| 28 | An interesting example of the choices made for this first volume is between the two poems to Octavia on the subject of marriage . |
| 29 | At this place the terrace was inaccessible , being several feet below the level of the room , and her first glimpse was of the back of a dark head down below . |
| 30 | Seona Dancing : First gig was in the bar of University College , London . |