Example sentences of "of [adj] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | OMAGH Town 's inability to get the ball into the net during half an hour of incessant first half pressure was cruelly punished by the deadly Billy Totten after 33 minutes at St. Julians Road this afternoon . |
| 2 | Fluticasone propionate is a potent topically active fluorinated corticosteroid with low systemic bioavailability after oral administration , partly because of malabsorption , and partly because of extensive first pass metabolism . |
| 3 | Since the Stockholm Conference of 1971 first highlighted the issues , the international community has been slow to develop appropriate diplomatic machinery to cope with what are increasingly international environmental problems . |
| 4 | For their part , the Western nuclear powers ( USA , UK and France ) have been reluctant to make any ‘ no first use ’ statements , not least because of their traditional reliance on the threat of possible first use as a means of compensating for their presumed disadvantages in the conventional military balance . |
| 5 | His death means that the American Gene Sarazen is the only survivor of that first Ryder Cup match 62 years ago . |
| 6 | The movement from the initial grandly imperative wish for a creative act , reviving an older myth , to the final mundane narrative of the beginning of another , much less magnificent revival of potential creativity promised by ‘ sal volatile/ And a glass of brandy neat ’ is a movement away from a first situation ( that of Ariadne on Naxos ) which we never see in itself ; the painting conjured up and the other parallels to this first situation are interpretations not just of each other , but also of that first situation which , because a ‘ myth ’ and so subject to constant reinterpretation , may never have happened in any of the ways presented , if indeed it ever took place at all . |
| 7 | Even of that first ecstatic experience with Mohammed in 1895 he would write much later , ‘ Every time since then that I have sought after pleasure , it is the memory of that night I have pursued ’ ( If It Die , 283 ) . |
| 8 | By the end of that first tour he was on the cover of Rolling Stone . |
| 9 | With all my heart I hope for the failure of that first book — no , volume , of mine , from beginning to end not trash , but heartless pretence . |
| 10 | By the end of that first day , Dot knew , despite her throbbing head , her painful neck and throat , that this was a good place . |
| 11 | The most important engagement of that first campaign was the fiercely contested battle at Freiburg against Bavarian forces . |
| 12 | In the old language andegari meant hawthorn , and a bush of that type probably at one time marked the external borders of the city of Mediolanum , although little or nothing is known of that first town . |
| 13 | I was obliged during the course of that first morning to go constantly in and out of the room , and so was unable to follow the proceedings at all fully . |
| 14 | My abiding memory of that first encounter is of a slight , pale yet exceedingly determined looking woman whose high pitched voice was that of a female George Formby . |
| 15 | From the time of that first evolutionary change , and onwards through the whole of the Second Period , that is , from the start of life to the dawn of civilisation , millions of evolutionary events took place which from the very beginning were moving towards the creation of an ever more sensitive , complex and capable physical being , and this being , ultimately to become man , was always at the head of the process no matter what had gone before . |
| 16 | The international flavour of that first prize-giving ceremony in 1989 was instantly established when the winners included General Motors , Toyota and Honda . |
| 17 | By the end of that first day , however , Charles already had under his command 1200 men and one horse , his troops ' first equine prisoner , the charger captured from Captain Scott . |
| 18 | Kelly had no more rides on whom she could expunge the memory of that first race . |
| 19 | He could remember every detail of that first meeting . |
| 20 | Looking back on it he was amazed both at his boldness and at the seeming inevitability and naturalness of that first encounter . |
| 21 | Below : The joy of that first flight with a self-made kite is a treasured memory . |
| 22 | Also , a hotel room would remind her of that first night they had spent together ; what happened then had been repeated by now many times . |
| 23 | The result of that first year ? |
| 24 | I thought I 'd thought of that first . ’ |
| 25 | Such was the popularity of film and such was the reforming zeal of that first decade or so of the twentieth century that there must have been every possibility that other agencies would take up the chance of producing , distributing , and exhibiting films in their own halls . |
| 26 | With the success of that first book , the Newsons were able to obtain funds for follow-up studies , but had by then lost contact with many of their original sample . |
| 27 | Even the weather collaborated on the day of that first FAMILY procession . |
| 28 | By the end of that first trip , our goal still seemed a long way off . |
| 29 | So the argument we have now reached seems to be a complex defence of the first part of that first sceptical argument . |
| 30 | Trust a woman to think of that first . |