Example sentences of "the first [noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The details regarding the first pie in 1788 are few , but it was served and eaten by the villagers in Cliffe Stile Field . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Jimmy and Gwenda Cornell 's ARC team has grown since the first event in 1986 . |
| 26 | Karajan 's response to Honegger 's Symphonie liturgique and its near contemporary , Strauss 's Metamorphosen , of which he made the first recording in 1947 , provides specifically musical evidence of Karajan 's priorities and allegiances that I have yet to see considered by those who have become so concerned to analyse and recycle often erroneous information about his alleged political sympathies before and during the Second World War . |
| 27 | Emilie Candeille , opera singer , grande tragedienne and composeress , is represented by the first performance in 199 years of her Piano Concerto in D , Op2 . |
| 28 | Since becoming the first Scot in 35 years to win the Amateur title at Carnoustie last year , Dundas has known that he would be playing in the US Masters at Augusta and Open Championship at Royal St George 's , and now he has received an invitation to the US Open , to be played at Baltusrol , New Jersey , on 17-20 June . |
| 29 | Though they only opened the first supermarket in 1961 , there are over 40 today . |
| 30 | And between 1981–83 , when he was number one in the world rankings , he played in every United States match , helping them to win the trophy the first two years and even competing in their historic relegation match against Ireland in Dublin after they had lost to Argentina in the first round in 1983 . |