Example sentences of "of the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the first group completed a training course to provide practical help in the home for a small number of people ill with HIV/AIDS . |
| 2 | He starts at a medieval Gothic window , a remnant of the first university in central Europe ( founded 1348 ) ; he pauses at the rebuilt Bethlehem Chapel , the site of where the Mass was first allowed in Czech , and Jan Hus preached before being burnt for heresy in 1413 ; he pays respects to the relics of the Jewish quarter with its ancient and crowded graveyard ; to cross the river he uses the Charles Bridge , lined with Baroque statues ( many between 1700 and 1720 ) , and climbs the hill to the Castle where art and architecture of all periods again further embellish the golden city of central Europe . |
| 3 | Charles is touchingly done — a frail unpublished poet kept going by his wife and son ( the wife is called Vivien , presumably by design , though she is no copy of the first Mrs Eliot ) , their household a breath of fresh air in the conniving , phrase-making milieu to which Charles clings . |
| 4 | In the fine and fairly straight title-story of the first collection , a well-to-do Jewish family expels a poor boy to whom they feel they have been ‘ nice ’ and who has repaid them by sleeping with their daughter . |
| 5 | The reaction of the first Dáil to successive attempts to introduce legislation for divorce was to change standing orders so that such a bill could not be introduced again . |
| 6 | It suggested that second marriages would substantially infringe the rights of inheritance of the members of the first family . |
| 7 | In the ensuing debate , Alan Shatter , TD of Fine Gael , author of a book on family law , pointed out the better provision being made under the projected divorce law for a first wife than existed at present , and that children of the first marriage would maintain their present rights , though they would have to share with children of the second marriage . |
| 8 | But now I see , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , that I must alter the emphasis of the first part . |
| 9 | Authors of the first 100 replies received will be invited as guests to the forum on 1 October at the Savoy , London . |
| 10 | ‘ I was one of the first chefs to put gastronomic vegetarian meals on the menu seven years ago . |
| 11 | It is actually entitled Speke , Porot and contains the following significant variants of the first three stanzas : |
| 12 | Her moment came at the end of the first course when , without any apparent signal , the parlourmaid came back into the room . |
| 13 | REMEMBRANCE was one of the first Film on Four projects . |
| 14 | A magical tale , which tells of man 's disrespect for the natural world around him , as seen through the eyes of an elderly recluse and two young children on the Isles of Scilly at the outbreak of the First World War . |
| 15 | You should gather seeds from the best plants only , if possible selecting and marking them early on and removing all but one or two of the first , fattest seed-heads to conserve as much energy as possible . |
| 16 | This is easier if you 've kept a note of the date of the first day of your last period . |
| 17 | For most people one of the first questions to answer is ‘ How am I going to pay for it ? ’ |
| 18 | As half of the first full-time two man drug squad in the North-East of England , I was tasked with defining and dealing with the new social aberration of ‘ flower power ’ , ‘ the counter culture ’ , and the ‘ psychedelic trip ’ . |
| 19 | He was one of the first to design TV campaigns : you know , the super-hero voice advising the daffy housewife how she can best clean his clothes ? |
| 20 | He has been so occupied since before his first book was published ; in season and out of season , through thick and thin , and always with the certitude that his views , his perceptions , would prevail : a catalyst and an agitator of the first order . |
| 21 | lumps of concrete had been found on the line in front of the first train |
| 22 | D J Mike Read and guest Cliff Richard will be on hand to capture the excitement of the first day and hopefully set the mood for a week of high quality tennis — and not a little fun ! |
| 23 | Looking back to the opening statement of the first article last month , we must remember that in the main we are thinking about these designs as decoration rather than as pure picture-making . |
| 24 | A more emphatic outline can be achieved by making a second cut round the outside of the first outline . |
| 25 | Copies of the first in the series , on Complaints , should reach Age Concern organisations by early December ; the next two ( Community Care Plans and Contracting ) should follow in the early part of 1992 . |
| 26 | The report draws on the experience of the first 14 Primary Care Development Fund Projects , which were established in 1989 . |
| 27 | Intensive road testing of the first ten Class 91s started in the spring of 1988 and the first public services with the new Mk 4 stock started between King 's Cross and Leeds in October 1989 . |
| 28 | By May 1990 — after delivery of the first ten sets of the new Mk 4 stock for the East Coast main line — the Great Western will receive an additional HST set and sufficient trailers to make all HST formations 2 + 8 . |
| 29 | Elsewhere on Southern Region ( where main-line passengers could see no prospect of new stock ) 1980 saw the introduction of the first refurbished 4-CEP ( Class 411 ) unit No 411506 . |
| 30 | 11 June saw the reopening of a station closed thirty-five years previously and the opening of the first new inner-London station for very many years : Hackney Central and Hackney Wick on the ‘ Cross Town Link Line ’ between North Woolwich and Camden Road , a promise of greater things to come . |