Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely a policy decision should be taken soon , before we miss the opportunity and no longer have the funds to invest in a future first class tourist industry ? |
| 2 | After all , the walkers got to the top first . |
| 3 | ( c ) TRANSITION — intention to proceed with the outstanding first ministry . |
| 4 | After the Great War Sir Henry , an estate agent and former Mayor of Fulham , used his influence to get his club elected to the enlarged First Division , but Arsenal found it hard going , their best season being 1920–21 when they finished ninth . |
| 5 | Her love and zest for life comes out in her unique correspondence and notes made during the momentous first east-west crossing of the Atlantic of the Graf Zeppelin LZ.127 . |
| 6 | The pace bowlers capitalised during the abbreviated first day , even if the close catchers did n't . |
| 7 | Similar findings were recently reported for another muscle-specific gene ; a variant form of dystrophin mRNA containing the distal portion of native dystrophin preceded by an alternative first exon and encoding a 75 kDa protein was found widely distributed in non-muscle tissues ( 22 ) . |
| 8 | Any longer than an absolute maximum of six , he argued , would run the risk of not being able to recapture viewers lost to an unpopular first episode . |
| 9 | FRED COUPLES , who miraculously avoided a lake on his way to winning the U.S. Masters in April , did it again yesterday as America charged into a two-stroke first round lead in golf 's World Cup in Madrid . |
| 10 | The company recovered from a disastrous first half where business fell because of the Gulf war to deliver an operating profit of £21.3m against a loss of £114m in 1990 . |
| 11 | In fact the worst case comes from the low first measurement and is 12.7% variation . |
| 12 | The new League kicked off with a 25 per cent drop in attendances compared with the old First Division a year ago . |