Example sentences of "the first [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Museums will have the first pick of a huge art mountain which has been allowed to accumulate over the years as the result of an income support scheme for artists which was stopped in 1984 . |
| 2 | In practice , the first session of the inter-governental conference will be attached to the Rome EC summit next December , although serious bargaining will only start some months later . |
| 3 | In practice , the first session of the inter-governmental conference will be attached to the Rome EC summit next December , although serious bargaining will only start some months later . |
| 4 | In 1549 , two years after the close of the first session of the Council of Trent — the Council whose stupendous achievements encompassed the comprehensive definition of Catholic doctrine and the unchallengeable assertion of papal power , and which has been described as the creator of the modern Catholic church — John Hamilton , archbishop of St Andrews since 1547 , held the first of his own reforming councils . |
| 5 | Board results of the strongest club match played this year : GM Hubner 1–0 GM Christiansen ; GM Yusupov 1–0 GM Lutz ; GM Ribli DRAW GM Hort ; GM Hertneck DRAW GM Vaganian ; GM Bonsch 0–1 GM Hickl ; GM Bischoff 1–0 GM Knaak ; IM Stangl 0–1 GM Vogt ; IM Schlosser DRAW IM Jackelen ; 4.5–3.5 England 's strongest league , the London League , was effectively decided on Tuesday when King 's Head , based at the pub of the same name in Moscow Road , Bayswater , achieved a 5–2 lead in the first session of play against Wood Green . |
| 6 | From May 16 — 29 , however , he will be hosting the first session of amatory writing courses at the European Centre for Holistic Studies on the Greek island of Skyros — very apt for someone preoccupied with sex , death and the Oedipus complex . |
| 7 | Mr Ashdown , campaigning in north Wales , raised the stakes on electoral reform by saying that his precondition for talks would be legislation to implement PR in the first session of Parliament . |
| 8 | They lead Bushbury , who have led for most of the season , 5–1 in their eight-game match after the first session of play . |
| 9 | Short , playing black , dominated the game throughout , and at the end of the first session of play on Tuesday he had a clear advantage in an endgame with superior pieces and a very strong passed pawn . |
| 10 | This week the hearing reached a milestone with the first session of full cross-examination — a baptism of fire for the Department of Energy , which surprised everyone by agreeing to be interrogated on the full gamut of Whitehall 's current thinking on energy policy . |
| 11 | At the first session of the court in January 1869 he gave judgement to James Sprinks , who had sued Harry Carroll for 7s 6d to be paid the full amount plus almost as much in costs , 6s 3d . |
| 12 | I hope that , in the first session of the next parliament , there will be less of the constant bickering and exchange of insults which marred the last sessions of the previous House of Commons . |
| 13 | The autumn of 1529 not only saw the fall from power of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey , who had dominated religious and political life in England for the previous fifteen years , but also the beginning of the first session of the Reformation Parliament . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | These meetings were a dress-rehearsal for the first session of the Council . |
| 16 | This was the issue that dominated the first session of the Council , the only one Pope John knew . |
| 17 | At the end of the first session of the 97th Congress , Helen Dewar reported in the Washington Post : Even one of Reagan 's severest critics , Tip O'Neill , the former Speaker of the House of Representatives , does not underestimate Reagan 's early achievements : ‘ ( He ) pushed through the greatest increase in defense spending in American history together with the greatest cutbacks in domestic programs and the largest tax cuts the country has ever seen . ’ |
| 18 | As the Congressional Quarterly Almanac concluded : ‘ In all , the first session of the 97th Congress was a great personal triumph for Reagan . |
| 19 | The 30 September also saw the first session of a specially created presidential Commission for Restitution . |
| 20 | Breaking down the results by session : the first session of nineteenth- and twentieth-century paintings totalled £556,930 ( $946,780 ) with 46.7% unsold by value ; the session of modern and contemporary Indian paintings , watercolours , drawings and sculpture totalled £125,750 ( $213,775 ) with 17.47% unsold by value ; the group of Indian and South-East Asian sculpture and works of art totalled £141,858 ( $241,158 ) with 56% unsold ; the Oriental and European ceramics , bronzes gold and silver totalled £194,315 ( $330,335 ) . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | At the end of the first session of interviews , there was inevitable frustration . |
| 23 | Labour 's 1983 election manifesto pledged the party to ‘ take action to abolish the undemocratic House of Lords as quickly as possible and , as an interim measure , introduce a bill in the first session of Parliament to remove its legislative powers — with the exception of those that relate to the life of a parliament ’ . |
| 24 | Once we have incorporated the Maastricht treaty into our law — presumably , as my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister said , in the first Session of the new Parliament — we must press on in the second half of 1992 , when we have the presidency of the Community , to set out more clearly our vision of a common European future . |
| 25 | The first session of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia ( CPCz ) central committee since the extraordinary party congress in December 1989 [ see p. 37107 ] was held in Prague on Jan. 6 . |
| 26 | The first session of the seventh NPC on April 8 , 1988 , elected Yang Shangkun as President in place of Li Xiannian . |
| 27 | A minor controversy arose briefly because the resignation of the outgoing Cabinet and the appointment of the new Cabinet had taken place before the closing of the first session of the new Federal Assembly on June 27 , contravening the Constitution . |
| 28 | On Oct. 4 the first session of the enlarged ( from 519 to 663 members ) Bundestag ( lower house of federal parliament ) was held in the Reichstag building . |
| 29 | The first session of the newly-constituted State Little Hural , or standing parliament [ see p. 37713 ] , ended on Oct. 5 with the confirmation of a 15-member Cabinet as stipulated in the Law on the Structure and Composition of the Mongolian Government [ ibid . ] . |
| 30 | Ten military officers , including Maj. Gideon Orkar , the apparent leader of the attempt , went on trial charged with treason at the first session of the military tribunal set up to deal with offenders on May 21 . |