Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [noun sg] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children from Whinfield Junior School deposited the first cans into the bank in the car park of the Gateway Foodmarket on Whinbush Way . |
| 2 | It could be implied in the operation code whether the first or second store address is to receive the result , but in practice any particular computer uses always the first address , or always the second address , as the destination : for example the SS ( two address ) format of the IBM 370 range uses the first address as the destination . |
| 3 | A HUNGARIAN shot putter last night became the first Paralympic Games competitor to fail a drugs test . |
| 4 | In the 74th minute Furlong forced Cherry to make the first serious save of the match , and soon afterwards the goalkeeper had to turn a shot from Flynn round a post . |
| 5 | I was there the night that Madame made the first move in what I now see was a careful campaign to prepare Boy for this romance or meeting . |
| 6 | It was his management at the end of last season that cost United the First Division title . |
| 7 | THE novelist VS Naipaul last night became the first winner of Britain 's biggest literary prize , worth £30,000 . |
| 8 | LABOUR LEADERS last night suffered the first setback of the Brighton conference when delegates overwhelmingly rejected pleas for unity by demanding heavy cuts in defence spending . |
| 9 | Hewlett-Packard Co last week launched the first interconnect board under its February agreement with IBM Corp under which the two committed to adapting fibre optic interconnection boards for linking computers to peripherals and computers to computers developed by IBM for the AS/400 and RS/6000 to meet the ANSI Fibre Channel standard . |
| 10 | Somalia is disintegrating into anarchy : Richard Dowden last week became the first outsider to visit the parts of Somalia controlled by anti-government guerrillas . |