Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [noun sg] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , if the three numbers beneath the Early Reply Bonus Seal match the first three numbers of your Early Reply Bonus Code , and you reply within 14 days , you will automatically qualify for the chance to double the £50,000 first prize to £100,000 . |
| 2 | In addition , should the three numbers beneath the Early Reply Bonus Seal match the first three numbers of the Early Reply Bonus code , the entrant will also be eligible to win an additional £50,000 , should they reply within 14 days , and win first prize . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Last week Harvard University Press published the first conspectus of myremecology since 1910 , by Dr Wilson and Dr Bert Holldobler ( a fellow Harvard professor ) . |
| 5 | Breaking the banner at Ryde Pier head to inaugurate the first run of the Eastleigh–refurbished ex–LT 1938 stock from Ryde Pier Head to Brading on 13 July 1989 , Class 483 unit No 001 looks particularly smart in a neater version of NSE livery . |
| 6 | In 1934/35 , Frank Fraser Darling made the first intensive study of deer , and his book A Herd of Red Deer is still a valuable source book . |
| 7 | Dr Howe … an Oxford graduate … had been a tutor in English at the Open University based at Foxcombe Hall in Oxford for the past two years … she 's recently published her first book … through Cambridge university Press called the First English Actresses … colleagues say she had a bright future . |
| 8 | An array of pooches and their owners from across the district gathered at Clacton 's Vista Road recreation ground to receive the first copies of the pack . |
| 9 | But , as vinyl hits its final downward path , Tokyo 's Finail Technology company introduces the first laser turntable for vinyl discs . |
| 10 | The following Christmas she beat Gaye Brief by a neck in a thrilling race at Kempton Park and three months later ( in the meantime winning the Wessel Cable Champion Hurdle at Leopardstown ) took advantage of his absence from the Champion Hurdle line-up to become the first mare to win the race since African Sister in 1939 , though she had to fight hard before scrambling home by three quarters of a length from Cima . |
| 11 | In 1931 the Polytechnic Touring Association organized the first air charter holiday , flying twenty-four passengers from Croydon , south of London , in a four-engined Heracles . |
| 12 | Last year The Mary Whitehouse Experience became the first TV programme to be reported to the Broadcasting Standards Council after a derogatory sketch about Going For Gold star Henry Kelly was shown . |
| 13 | Fourteen healthy adult subjects then collected urine specimens before and within an hour after their normal breakfast , to assess the fall in urine acid output accompanying the first meal of the day . |
| 14 | In 1972 the Local Government Act made the first major change in the local government system of England and Wales ( apart from the restructuring in London , which took place in 1963 ) , since the nineteenth century . |
| 15 | On the first day of the launch Manchester branch received the first Home Purchaser with a Bolt-on Critical Illness application from a Bolton Agent , on his own life . |
| 16 | ‘ LIKE A LITTLE bird , sweet and smooth ’ , was how a jubilant Dick Melton of Dick Melton Aviation described the first flight of Hurricane G-ORGI from a Hampshire airstrip on September 8 . |
| 17 | But if the first byte has a ( hexadecimal ) value of 9C , 9D , 9E , 9F , or B2 , then a 4-byte " 5 " format instruction is indicated , and in this format the operation code field occupies the first two bytes . |
| 18 | The Midland Railway Centre are not averse to diesel traction and 10 years ago in 1982 when the railway was first re-opened former Totton favourite Class 4 ‘ Peak ’ Great Gable owned by the Peak Loco Society became the first preserved diesel to be acquired . |
| 19 | Garston Snooker League are now approaching the half way stage with Woolton Village Club leading the first division with 23 points from eight games closely followed by Mossley Hill Legion ( 22 ) . |
| 20 | Sandra Bernhard MC 'd the first part of the show alongside American Vogue 's André Leon Talley , Daniel de la Falaise escorted Kylie Minogue down the runway , BodyMap 's David Holah and film-maker John Maybury appeared in drag , as did Pierre and Gilles dressed as bride and groom . |
| 21 | Further arrests were reported in the ensuing days , and on Dec. 30 the Cairo-based Middle East News Agency reported the first of a series of " intensive " police campaigns against " hotbeds of terrorism and extremism " in other areas of Cairo . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Paul Trollope the ex Swindon boy got the first which highlighted the holes in the Hereford defence . |
| 24 | Last year NEC Corp launched the first wireless PC . |
| 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 1956 , too , a Spaniard , albeit an exiled Republican Spaniard , Juan Ramón Jiménez , won the Nobel prize for literature and Spain was the protagonist of another , undoubtedly more popular , cultural event : on 13 June 1956 the Real Madrid football team won the first European Cup championship . |
| 27 | The former Northern Ireland champion won the first frame 71-45 but McCluskey took the second 57-37 and it seemed as though the Ulsterman was in for a tough fight . |
| 28 | Of the students in my time , one has since become an archbishop , John Aung Hla ; another , John Maung Pe became the first bishop of Akyab , and another who came for a short term of study and an even shorter curacy was John Richardson , the saintly schoolteacher , catechist , priest and bishop in turn of Car Nicobar , where under his influence the whole of the island population , including witch doctors , became Christian . |