Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was her dimples that first attracted Vic to Marjorie twenty-five years ago , when she worked in the typing pool at Vanguard . |
| 2 | It was this case that first showed the considerable legal sanctions available against unions under the new legislation . |
| 3 | Saturday and Sunday Loch 10 , teams of three open , tickets from Dave Connell , tel — March 22 First day for trout fishing in Northumbrian region . |
| 4 | And then there is the hypothesis put to the A 's Tony La Russa , the lawyer-manager and quiet ringmaster of what can be a wild Oakland circus troupe : ‘ What do you do if Will Clark ( the Giants big-hitting first baseman ) comes to the plate with the bases loaded ? ’ |
| 5 | Sudden moves from the government can cause terrible trouble in the housing market , in this case fr first time buyers faced with bigger bills . |
| 6 | BANGOR finished with a flourish , but for an hour this First Trust Senior Cup tie was as dreary and depressing as the weather . |
| 7 | For me he 's been the best player on the field this first half . |
| 8 | For a moment I was right back in my bedroom that first time . |
| 9 | Ironically it was the vote from the United Kingdom jury in the contest that first put Ireland significantly in front in the competition . |
| 10 | Of all the most damned of coincidences ! she 'd thought , when Ari had told her what had happened in the canteen that first day at the Park . |
| 11 | This was an idea that appealed strongly to me , though Unamuno had not been thinking of some of the ‘ brothers in solitude ’ — the outcasts from social and sexual ‘ normality ’ — who were the brothers that first sprang to my mind on reading that sentence in Corsham . |
| 12 | It was an electric car that first broke the 100 km/h barrier , when it set a world speed record of 104 km/h in 1898 . |
| 13 | It was an aerial photograph that first drew my attention to the site — and not a very clear photograph at that . |
| 14 | Employment Training is a locally based programme that first helps you select people with the aptitude and commitment you 're looking for . |
| 15 | A routine scan when mum Lynette , 19 , was three months pregnant first alerted doctors to the baby 's problem . |
| 16 | He clawed at the broken wheel that first dragged him across , then pinned him to the road . |
| 17 | Even those of which we have evidence are very daunting creatures — and the most surprising descendants to have sprung from the simple little shells that first appeared 600 million years ago . |
| 18 | Ride to Langholm in Eskdale this first night , then lie up there over the morrow . |
| 19 | To pull this off , the government should keep in mind some first principles . |
| 20 | Recognition for Michael 's work has recently come in the form of a fifteen thousand pound joint first prize in the Jameson awards for environmental research . |
| 21 | Lowndes is expected to show a £17m pre-tax first half loss this week . |
| 22 | Jan. 17 First Iraqi Scud missiles hit Israel . |
| 23 | In the same way , an economy 's laws record a history of solutions to problems of monopoly and theft and then of solutions to the loopholes and opportunities those first laws opened . |
| 24 | At least I was able at future lectures to raise a laugh by pointing out that by printing chapter 15 first the Report provided an example of the pervasive influence of post-structuralism . |
| 25 | His study Musical First Editions ( 1934 ) is a classic for its lucid exposition of new ideas . |
| 26 | Er in the summer term particularly , at the end of the summer term those retirements thirty first of August because as you can appreciate they are sort of inundated applications at the end of the academic year . |
| 27 | Jan. 20 First Scuds against Riyadh launched . |
| 28 | The second major issue which I believe had been used against the new settlement as a an appropriate Greater York area , is that it 's inconsistent with erm current recent central government planning advice , and basically the argument is that the proposals for the new settlement are contrary to er planning policy guidance notes three and twelve , and draft er P P G thirteen , if I can deal with P P G thirteen first of all , and the observation of Mr Curtis that the new settlement is a last resort , erm now I could find no reference to that at all erm in P P G three , or even a sentiment that at planning policy er that a new settlement should be regarded erm as a policy of last resort . |
| 29 | In the case of the Mother and Child scheme , it was rather through withdrawal from the scene that first the politicians and later the churchmen avoided further trouble . |
| 30 | This puts a much more serious complexion on matters , for it was feet that first set Fergie 's heart racing and made her realise how deeply she was in love with Prince Andrew . |