Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [vb -s] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gary Stretch makes the first defence of his British light- middleweight championship against Rochdale 's Derek Wormald at the London Arena tonight , knowing it could lead to a lucrative world title eliminator against Leicester 's Chris Pyatt . |
| 2 | In this model , modelling land-use and transportation policies represents the first stage of this air quality simulation system ( Gross , 1982 ) . |
| 3 | Dr Haritos-Fatouros says the first rule for those selecting potential torturers is : do not hire a sadist . |
| 4 | The England star takes the first step towards his long-awaited comeback in an A-team game this afternoon , five months after suffering a career-threatening Achilles injury . |
| 5 | This week , Joy Francis investigates the first category of elder abuse : physical abuse and physical neglect ( see page 18 ) while Mervyn Eastman , recognised as the first social worker to highlight elder abuse , examines the problems of defining elder abuse ( see page 20 ) . |
| 6 | Philip Brannon 's charming drawing of the FORT AT PEVERIL POINT shows the first pier ( 1859 ) in the background . |
| 7 | If the Common Desktop Environment clears the first hurdle , other ideas for it include moving desktop icons between distributed systems using an object request broker . |
| 8 | Commenting on the company 's figures ( see opposite ) , AT&T Co chairman Robert Allen says the first quarter results , excluding the accounting changes , auger well for the rest of the year . |
| 9 | Mr McCann presents the first Bond to Chris Smith of Royal Insurance , watched by Bill Tubey , Manweb ; Richard Smith , Barclays ; Erica Duff , Brookside Productions and Frank Cogley , Liverpool 's Director of Education Picture : TONY KENWRIGHT |
| 10 | Inside Story ( BBC-1 9.30pm ) producer Tom Bower presents the first investigation into Rowland , unravelling his past , tracing the controversial path which earned his fortune and revealing those who have benefited and suffered under his single-minded dictat . |
| 11 | Yet Mrs Molina becomes the first Latino to sit on the county 's governing board since 1872 — and the first woman ever . |
| 12 | Despite his inexperience Andy wins the first race . |
| 13 | Boss Robin Miller says the first issue of computer games magazine Nintendo Magazine System sold a massive 150,000-plus copies . |
| 14 | Connie Franks recommends the first week in June as being early enough for putting out the bedding plants . |
| 15 | Brian Cervi leads the first XI , with Lloyd Edwards and Bernie Tutte looking after the second team . |
| 16 | Our new size Journal represents the first format change since 1976 when the former tabloid paper became an A4 magazine . |
| 17 | Tonight , Lord Scarman hears the first submissions to the independent enquiry into the future of Rover at Cowley . |
| 18 | What a pity the kangaroo had been discovered too late for Johnson s Dictionary : Captain Cook makes the first reference to it three years earlier , in his Journal for August 1770 . |
| 19 | Councillor Kate Wood lays the first wreath at Wallasey |
| 20 | CLARKE 'S CRACKER : Northern Ireland 's Colin Clarke blasts the first goal of the game — and his record 13th for the team . |
| 21 | To a backdrop of deserted stands , Andrew Hudson becomes the first South African to score a hundred on his Test debut : ( below ) Curtly Ambrose mops up on the final day , bowling Meyrick Pringle . |
| 22 | The ruler line indicates the first line indent by a break mark , ' I ‘ , at the 0.5″ point . |
| 23 | The choirs interpreter says the first part of the tour was fraught with problems . |
| 24 | Bedford , Massachusetts-based Progress Software Corp says the first products from its collaboration with Object Design Inc , Burlington , Massachusetts , will be available at the beginning of 1993 . |
| 25 | The appearance of this beautifully-produced book from the small New York publishing company Timken marks the first monograph on the Danish nineteenth-century artist Christen Købke . |
| 26 | In this way glycine becomes the first amino acid in the protein , being carried into position on the ribosome assembly line by its tRNA . |
| 27 | THE BEGINNING OF THE END Lord Young looks on as Paul Reichmann drives the first pile at Canary Wharf in 1987 . |
| 28 | The Chronicle C text puts the first attacks on Æthelred 's England under 980 , when Thanet and Cheshire were harried , and Southampton ravaged and most of its citizens killed or captured . |
| 29 | But , as vinyl hits its final downward path , Tokyo 's Finail Technology company introduces the first laser turntable for vinyl discs . |