Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [adv] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Canterbury beat CD twice in the first half of the competition , first by three wickets on a dubious pitch in the initial first-class match at Burnside Park , Christchurch . |
| 2 | Rory Underwood 's try put England ahead for the first time in the match with just seven minutes to go after a spell of relentless pressure on the home side . |
| 3 | GEI International , the packaging machinery and special wire and cutting steels manufacturer , lifted profit again in the first half of the year . |
| 4 | Users contacted through the snowball sampling procedure were asked to provide the initials and sex of up to ten persons in their township who they knew to have used heroin regularly during the first prevalence period . |
| 5 | A major breakthrough in the continuing campaign for full integration between the able-bodied and the disabled will take place today with the first Special Olympics unified sports meeting in Britain . |
| 6 | ‘ I suppose being at an emotional low I did actually take heroin there for the first time , ’ he said . |
| 7 | In fact , as we shall see , this evidence has proved largely illusory , but the presentation of the gens stage as a real historical one presents Engels right from the first with the theoretical difficulties which were to plague Marxist anthropology afterwards . |
| 8 | DISCUSSIONS between management and representatives of the 1,300 striking manual workers at Yarrow took place yesterday for the first time since the dispute began 12 days ago . |
| 9 | These can be thought of as two separate systems with the non-metropolitan counties and metropolitan districts forming the core authorities ( see fig. 3.1 ) The first local councils under the 1972 Act were elected in 1973 and after a year of preparation , took office formally on the first day of April 1974 . |
| 10 | thinking in , in , in the context of our , of our mission , this town wide mission , well that 's Billy 's job , he 's better at it than I am , but its not his job , its my job as much as its his and its your job as much as its mine , we do not well to keep silent these men they were troubled by their sin of silence , perhaps you and I should be troubled by our sin of silence because the extension of that , and here 's the really great thing , as far as they were concerned , the ex the , the ongoing because they were troubled by their sin of silence and they did something about it , they were thrilled at the sight that they saw , as they see the city being delivered , and as they see starving men and women eating food perhaps for the first time in days or weeks , buying good wholesome food at a reasonable price , that was the sigh that thrilled them and you can imagine them , and I think they 'd be entitled to a little bit of pride that I 'm glad we told them , I 'm glad we went back and shared the news apart from any thing we could n't of coped with all ourselves , it would of been so wrong to of kept it , it would of been so wrong just to of eaten it ourselves , I 'm glad we went back and told them . |
| 11 | After Mironov and Chapman had twice exchanged penalties in the first half , Chapman 's smart 30-yard dropped goal five minutes after the break put Cornwall ahead for the first time while Mishakov was off the field with a shoulder injury . |
| 12 | As in previous years , the resolutions not to discuss business ( it carried the threat of a fine ) gave way early on the first evening . |
| 13 | Buffalo will know in the next couple of days whether Kelly will be fit to face Houston again in the first round of the play-offs next weekend . |
| 14 | The Green Party won representation locally for the first time with 14 seats ; and Sinn Féin won seven seats ( 10 in 1985 ) . |
| 15 | For all the increase , over 21,000 people left Sussex altogether in the first thirty years of the nineteenth century . |
| 16 | The cautions referred to had been given and he had been questioned months earlier on the first charges . |
| 17 | CAIRO ( Reuter ) — Libya 's leader , Muammar Gaddafi , will visit Egypt tomorrow for the first time in 16 years and hold talks with President Hosni Mubarak , Egyptian presidential sources said . |
| 18 | Perdita was in such a good mood that she and Daisy actually had supper together for the first time in months . |
| 19 | And bizarrely enough , the reason he began to take bottleneck seriously in the first place was due to a complete misunderstanding … |
| 20 | But the race was not stopped , and both Jackson and American Olympic silver medallist Tony Dees found themselves trailing McKoy badly by the first barrier . |
| 21 | But the race was not stopped , and both Jackson and American Olympic silver medallist , Tony Dees , found themselves trailing McKoy badly by the first barrier . |
| 22 | But the race was not stopped , and both Jackson and American Olympic silver medallist , Tony Dees , found themselves trailing McKoy badly by the first barrier . |