Example sentences of "[prep] the first [noun sg] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | so much for the Italian job Gloucester are back home training this week and getting themselves ready for the first league match of the season … that 's against wasps at Kingsholm on saturday ( 1 ) |
| 2 | A quick dust , to get rid of the cobwebs , and it 's off to the track , adrenalin pumping , because that time has come for the first track workout of the summer . |
| 3 | All problems resolved in one go because now for the first time question of optimum distance becomes an issue for the viewer . |
| 4 | The quality of consular services was improved in a number of cases , notably in Britain where a departmental committee of 1903 introduced for the first time recruitment of consuls by limited competition ( instead of as hitherto purely by nomination of the secretary of state for foreign affairs ) and a rationalised salary structure . |
| 5 | Indeed , for the first time computerization of a business it may well represent a better bet than the over-featured products such as Framework and Symphony . |
| 6 | Entering the church you can see that during the first building period of 1578–81 , the E end up to the crossing was constructed ; then the nave was continued in 1600–61 . |
| 7 | Described as the first encyclopedia handbook of plants that will survive water shortages . |
| 8 | Nucleation time , defined as the first appearance time of cholesterol monohydrate crystals , was measured as described by Holan et al with certain modifications . |
| 9 | After the first Education Act of 1870 and until the end of the nineteenth century , control of schools and their curricula was exercised through the enforcement of public education codes by regular inspectorial visits mainly for the purpose of testing pupils in prescribed activities . |
| 10 | Frame Technology Inc , San Jose , is right in there with FrameMaker 3.0 for Windows NT , needless to say claiming it to be the industry 's first document publishing application for Windows NT : it will be available customers within 30 days of the first customer ship of Windows NT at $800 . |
| 11 | In the records of the first Protectorate Parliament of 1654 Erle appears only on the committee of privileges , presumably because he refused to sign the Recognition , and he was not re-elected in 1656 , although approved at a preliminary gentry meeting . |
| 12 | Private Richard Downs , 19 , said he was serving as a bar steward in the officers ' mess of the First Battalion Duke of Wellington 's Regiment on election night — April 9 . |
| 13 | We 'll also be keeping you in touch with the second replay of the first qualifying round of the F A Cup which is taking place at Fort Meadow between Buckingham Town and Brackley Town ; it 's becoming a bit of a saga , the previous two matches ended one all draws . |
| 14 | Treaty in conjunction with the First Council Directive of 11 May 1960 for the implementation of article 67 of the E.E.C . |
| 15 | Treaty , I can deal relatively briefly with the question of their compatibility with the First Council Directive of 11 May 1960 for the implementation of article 67 of the E.E.C . |
| 16 | There he met with the first Dragon Prince of Caledor , Caledor Dragontamer , greatest of the High Mages of old . |
| 17 | This is often set at 21 days after the posting of the offer document , which coincides with the first closing date of the offer . |
| 18 | When you have altered the files in WORK enough to warrant another backup all you have to do is copy the whole directory into the first backup copy of the WORK directory . |
| 19 | Similarly , the delta form Skynasaur F36 , like the surviving Diamonds , now equipped with latest technology glass fibre rod spars and braces , comes into the first stage bracket of starter-stunters with honours . |
| 20 | From the first touring team of 1911 , featuring the great Daily Messenger , to 1963 , Great Britain was supreme . |
| 21 | Two days to go before the first home game of the season . |
| 22 | In some patients , there was four-fold increase in antibody response before the first sputum culture of P cepacia . |
| 23 | Before the first oil shock of 1973/4 when prices quadrupled — conservation was a seldom used word with little media appeal which meant curbing our voracious appetites for energy , to slow the depletion rate of finite and diminishing fossil fuel resources . |
| 24 | Science can try to understand what happened in the first half billionth of a second of the life of the universe . |
| 25 | INMATES of Risley remand centre have been invited to take part in the first recycling scheme of its kind in the country . |
| 26 | In the first quarter issue of Wood News we featured the Group 's activities in the Middle East . |
| 27 | In the first instance decision of Harvey [ 1988 ] Crim.L.R. 241 , a confession of murder made by a psychopathically disordered woman was , it is submitted , rightly excluded when it became apparent that she might have been motivated by a childlike desire to protect her lover , whom she had over-heard confessing to the same offence . |
| 28 | Hitler 's image , however , stood apart from this : ‘ For many of these young ones , the Führer is not the representative of the Party , but in the first instance Führer of the State and above all Supreme Commander of the Wehrmacht . ’ |
| 29 | Up to 40 fire engines , buses , coaches and lorries will snake around Darlington in the first vintage rally of its type to be held in the town . |
| 30 | To examine the evidence for using selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors instead of tricyclic antidepressants in the first line treatment of depression . |