Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | My actual first thatching was done at Chessington Zoo on the ladies ' loos when we were helping out a fellow franchisee with whom Eric had trained . |
| 2 | The sight of a word processor so terrifies me that I 've stuck rigidly to scissors and adhesive tape , while a genius of a lady in Twickenham makes sense of my appalling first drafts . |
| 3 | Let me tell you , when those dubbin-lickers at Whaddon go on their knees and beg me to bring my United first team squad to ‘ The Tip ’ to put a few quid in their ailing coffers , I shall take great delight in treading on Ken Mentle 's fingers , provided he survives last week 's heart attack , and raising two toes in a defiant ‘ get lost ’ gesture . |
| 4 | Rangers manager Gerry Francis , disappointed that his side failed to capitalise on their outstanding first half display conceded : ‘ Barnes was the difference , not just by the way he played , but more by his sheer presence . ’ |
| 5 | Kilmarnock manager Jim Fleeting and part-time assistant Jim McSherry have resigned following Saturday 's defeat by Partick which ended their Scottish first division promotion hopes . |
| 6 | The expectation was that IBM Corp would throw everything including the kitchen sink into its fiscal first quarter figures in order to give Louis Gerstner as clean a platform as possible on which to build — but the company unaccountably dressed the figures up a little , by taking a $95m tax credit in the quarter , without which the net loss would have been $380m ; interest charges in the first quarter declined by 12.5% to $305m . |
| 7 | After reporting a $260.5m net loss for its fiscal first quarter , chief executive Robert Palmer declared that ‘ Digital will change . |
| 8 | Hewlett-Packard Co accompanied news that it had made $261m net profit for its fiscal first quarter ( a decline of 21% before a big accounting charge last time ) with news that it cut 1,700 jobs worldwide during the period . |
| 9 | At Edgehill , the science department was divided into biological and environmental sciences , instead of the traditional biology , physics and chemistry ; the head teacher was a conscious advocate of innovation in comprehensive schooling ; in the third school , Meadowvale , the science department had decided to redraft its entire first and second year science curriculum , in part because of the children 's response to the VISTA visits organized by GIST . |
| 10 | She had promised a wealth of experience on their exploratory first date . |
| 11 | Accordingly , first up were East Village , Heavenly 's wild card from early on , when their timeless swoonings and groomings were seen as making some case for the plurality of the dance scene from which Heavenly first hatched . |
| 12 | Chopin was only four when the second concerto had its premiere — listening to its long-spun lines , its confident forays into high registers and its complex first movement harmonic excursions , one might more readily place Field as a companion of the virtuoso 's old age . |
| 13 | But his enthusiasm is far more apparent when he speaks about Christopher — who has a non-verbal IQ of between 40 and 70 — and their extraordinary first meeting . |
| 14 | Once they had sealed their leader 's fate , after her poor first ballot in the 1990 leadership contest , Mr Garel-Jones declared his support for Douglas Hurd . |
| 15 | He said : ‘ Last September the county council took a key decision about what its preferred first phase would be . |
| 16 | Serum from Crohn 's disease probands and their healthy first degree relatives may contain antibodies to gut epithelial cells , and peripheral blood lymphocytes from Crohn 's disease patients may be cytotoxic to these cells . |
| 17 | At his instigation , she formed a close but unresolved relationship with Frend , which formed the substance of her scandalous first novel Memoirs of Emma Courtney ( 1796 ) . |
| 18 | More babies were surviving their precarious first twelve months . |
| 19 | That was the last of the major rows which seemed to haunt the Production Office throughout its formative first year , but it was a sad indictment that Doctor Who never won full respectability as a serious drama programme within the Corporation . |
| 20 | These officer cadets have been at the Academy since early May and are now well into their fourteen-week first term . |
| 21 | This money will now go to Linfield and the eventual pay-out could reach six figures in bonuses , gate receipts and television rights from their forthcoming first round encounter with FC Copenhagen . |
| 22 | Diana had made an effort and put up with the ‘ Highgrove set ’ during her heady first months with Prince Charles . |
| 23 | After their successful first record , they can go into the studio without proper preparation . |
| 24 | One day , he would get to the bottom of Maggie 's behaviour , although he knew he might have to get her drunk first and she was even wary of sipping wine . |
| 25 | On Aug. 6 , the RCP had replaced its hardline first secretary Ivan Polozkov by the moderate Valentin Kuptsov , who had promised to co-operate with Gorbachev and Yeltsin . |
| 26 | After her disastrous first year at the academy , it was something of a miracle that Mildred was returning there at all . |
| 27 | This particularly affected Penguin substantially increasing its spec i its expected first half loss . |
| 28 | Capriati showed a little bit of rust from an eight-week lay-off , but her big first serve consistently registered 100mph and she said : ‘ I felt a lot better in the second set , I got into it a lot more . ’ |
| 29 | They disowned their food and their language and in some cases even their Indian first names . |
| 30 | Until the introduction of deflationary measures in July 1966 ( Brown wanted devaluation as an alternative , and lost to Wilson and to Callaghan at the Treasury ) , the DEA and its mercurial First Secretary did present the Cabinet with an alternative voice and , in the shape of the 1965 National Plan , a growth strategy , an emphasis on production to counter the Treasury 's obsession with finance . |