41.   The first of these was the connection between mining companies and the political elite.

42.   The first of these was wood engraving, done on the end-grain of boxwood with a burin rather than a knife.

43.   The great Frankish leader who unified the confederacy into a powerful entity was Clovis, first of the Merovingian kings.

44.   The Left-Hand Piano Concerto was the first of several works commissioned from distinguished composers.

45.   The report is the first of its kind and is the result of eighteen months of wide-ranging and intensive research and debate.

46.   The sixteenth edition was probably the first of the more recent editions to be widely accepted.

47.   The study is the first of its kind in Ireland.

48.   These babies are to be the first of a new kind of missile, powered by life.

49.   They moved on, following it up to the first of the ruined buildings.