Example sentences of "the first [noun] in [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first , the Assembly could not even decide upon its own agenda : it was only after the first session in 1949 that the Committee of Ministers agreed not to exercise its right to draw up the Assembly 's agenda . |
| 2 | The European champions , who host the first leg in 11 days ' time , have lost Ruud Gullit and Marco Van Basten and are struggling for form . |
| 3 | By June , new wireless sets had arrived , although the first consignment in one of the few supply errors , had no acid for their heavy ‘ wet ’ ( distilled water ) batteries . |
| 4 | Your conductors ' competitions brought on some new talent , beginning with the Finnish conductor Okko Kamu , who won the first competition in 1969 ; and you 've been a great help to most of the new generation of top conductors — Abbado , Ozawa , and so on . |
| 5 | A prospectus was drawn up and students with suitable qualifications were invited to attend the first course in 1977 . |
| 6 | Robert Julius Matson had guessed right : the first train had come through just nine years after the town was founded in 1858 , pulling behind it the fertiliser works , the com mill , the seed-com warehouse , and with them the quiet prosperity that spawned the first Masonic lodge in 1871 , a voluntary fire brigade in ‘ 75 , the telephone in ‘ 84 and the first sewer in 1920 . |
| 7 | The whole emphasis of the first Act in 1889 was on espionage and treason . |
| 8 | Working-class voters had already elected one Labour government in 1923 and following the General Strike they elected another one at the first opportunity in 1929 . |
| 9 | The council elections to be held in Chile in June will provide the first opportunity in 20 years for Chileans to vote against the ‘ eyes and ears ’ of the military dictatorship , according to Maria Antonieta Saa , the human rights activist and Chile 's only woman mayor . |
| 10 | The video , produced by Axel Ltd , is the first film in 77 years to be rejected by the board on the grounds of blasphemy . |
| 11 | Scott and a team including Chris Bonington made the first ascent in 1977 ; on the rock ridge of Shivling East Pillar ; Greg Child belayed on Lobsang Spire in the Karakoram — another first ascent for Scott in 1983 . |
| 12 | We were the first union in nineteen seventy six to come out with our policy on the then Race Relations Act it 's always been a trade union issue whether it was the trade unions in Germany in the twenties and thirties fighting Hitlerism and Nazi-ism or whether it was the trade unions fighting Moseley and his black shirts in Britain it has always been part of our ideals and principles . |
| 13 | The irony that Charlton finally got back to the First Division in 1986 , the year their exile from The Valley began , is n't lost on Ufton . |
| 14 | Seventeen years later , then Flight Lieutenant Reif , he flew as one of the first navigators in 2 Squadron Canberras when that unit deployed to South Vietnam in April 1967 . |
| 15 | Ever since the end of the First Crusade in 1100 and the unsuccessful conclusion of the Second in 1184 , the tiny Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem — Outremer or the Land Beyond the Sea — had maintained a slender toehold on the eastern seaboard of the Holy Land . |
| 16 | Since right up until the first census in 1801 the increase in population was not generally perceived , much contemporary comment was not qualified by this relationship . |
| 17 | Since the first publication in 1977 of his book on collecting modern first editions , Joseph Connolly has detected collectors becoming more enthusiastic in their pursuit of contemporary writers — to such an extent that a fine first of The Rachel Papers can now fetch £500 |
| 18 | But you would n't have C command , I mean that if you take the first structure in seven , that 's just the one in T three . |
| 19 | This did not get under way until 1943 , took in the first students in 1944 and produced its first teachers in 1946 . |
| 20 | The walkers leave John Street in Bradford at 10am ( the first race in 1903 started at 6.35am ) , then make their way to Ilkley via Shipley , Hollins Hill , Menston and Burley . |
| 21 | Ten teams took part in the first race in 1975 , and they all enjoyed themselves so they thought they would do it again the following year . |
| 22 | This is the 65th anniversary of the first race in 1928 , and almost 80 cars from that era are expected to take part in a nostalgic three lap run around the course on June 4 , starting at 7pm . |
| 23 | The details regarding the first pie in 1788 are few , but it was served and eaten by the villagers in Cliffe Stile Field . |
| 24 | By the early 1640s she had moved to London and begun a religious quest in pursuit of whose ends she became involved with the first Quakers in 1654 . |
| 25 | In 1984 , the first SCE Standard grade courses started to replace O grades in Scotland , with the first examinations in 1986 . |
| 26 | erm , erm feel like they 're getting the benefit again , again and again , you now make the costs of at every point they take another , they 've got more coming in , erm in terms of cash and er at every point I seem to loose , I loose the first case in ninety one and everything now seems to go against me , it seems as though I do n't stand a chance any more . |
| 27 | He was appointed to the state 's Superior Court in 1978 , to its Supreme Court in 1983 , and to the federal Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in 1990 . |
| 28 | DEEP PURPLE have a 27-track , triple-album collection , titled ‘ Anthology ’ , containing all the best tracks from their first formation in 1968 up until the first split in 1976 , released by EMI on March 18 . |
| 29 | The first attempts in 1953 were not very successful . |
| 30 | Jimmy and Gwenda Cornell 's ARC team has grown since the first event in 1986 . |