Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] to the first [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 RESTORE followed by a parameter sets the data pointer to the first item of data in the specified line ( or the next line containing a DATA statement if the specified line does not contain data ) .
2 Viscount Northcliffe , the prominent journalist , offered a handsome Cash prize to the first person to fly across the English Channel which resulted in a Frenchman , M. Bleriot , flying from Calais to Dover in 1909 , which was the year in which Sir A. V. Roe began aircraft manufacture .
3 Motivated by the lure of the finish , the riot police team ploughed through 40 miles of mangrove swamp to the first sight of the Pacific Ocean at Porto Juminez .
4 HQ switch : The headquarters base of Middlesbrough council 's housing and community services department switches on April 6 from the 16th and 17th floors of Corporation House to the first floor .
5 Leaving Fraser to deal with the occupants of the vaulted basement chambers Douglas and Ramsay raced up the twisting turnpike stairway to the first floor , where would be the great hall , followed by fifty or so mosstroopers .
6 But please hurry — remember , you have just 14 days to qualify for a chance to add the £15,000 Bonus to the First Prize … and win a grand total of £125,000 !
7 The question then is whether a State party to the first treaty can prevent another treaty party from entering into a later treaty from which it is excluded , but which would conflict with the first treaty .
8 Watford2 Blackburn1 TWO goals by Darren Bazeley gave Watford their sixth win in seven games and further dented Blackburn 's hopes of an automatic promotion spot to the First Division .
9 because you can go down in your first line move to the first letter o , after the number , hit the tab key and you 've actually lined up the first line along with the rest of your paragraph .
10 the first coupon payment , which consists of the interest accrued from the settlement date to the first payment date , .
11 In 1895 Bridgeman married Caroline , elder daughter of Cecil Parker , land agent to the first Duke of Westminster , and second son of Thomas Wolstenholme , sixth Earl of Macclesfield .
12 There is a fine oak carved overmantel and an old door opens onto the curved stone stair to the first floor .
13 This is not truly a third party claim , as the basis for the claim of material breach is party status to the first treaty ; it is only with respect to the subsequent treaty that there is a third party relationship .
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