Example sentences of "[noun] be [verb] [prep] [pron] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had any of these attitudes been generated by your first experience with the National Youth Theatre under Michael Croft ? |
| 2 | Nottinghamshire are looking for their first win in a one-day competition at Trent Bridge this season . |
| 3 | Clients were known by their first names only . |
| 4 | MOTOR RACING : DAMON HILL is aiming for his first Grand Prix win in the Canadian Grand Prix this weekend . |
| 5 | The Riverside Theatre in Coleraine is preparing for its first production of the new season . |
| 6 | While Dustin was appearing in his first lead role on Broadway , he was filming at the Biograph Studios in darkest Bronx , thirty minutes by limo ( laid on nightly by Twentieth Century-Fox ) from the Great White Way . |
| 7 | Richard was expelled from his first school in Cheltenham because his behaviour was too disruptive . |
| 8 | These experiences are fictionalized in his first novel , The Crust on Its Uppers ( republished by Serpent 's Tail to coincide with the publication of The Hidden Files ) . |
| 9 | On Oct. 9 , 1989 , following Rocard 's use of the procedure authorized by Article 49.3 of the Constitution ( whereby in the absence of a motion of censure a law was adopted on its first reading ) , the RPR presented a motion of censure on the arms expenditure bill which obtained only 159 of the of 289 votes required to gain a simple majority . |
| 10 | Five minutes into the second half , the parry was from the boy was looking for his first goal , and it 's picking up the pieces for his second of the afternoon . |
| 11 | Germany 's 2.3 million public service workers are heading for their first strike for 18 years in support of a 5.4 per cent pay rise recommended by arbitrators but rejected by the government . |
| 12 | No future plans for record releases have been made as yet , but it is understood that the band are working on their first album proper , following last year 's singles-compilation ‘ Gala ’ . |
| 13 | England women 's team were beaten in their first match , 3–0 by Yugoslavia . |
| 14 | Ivan Klima could be called a lyric author , and the notion of what it is to be such an author is examined in My First Loves , whose gentle and deliberate stories read as if they have been grown and stored before being made public . |
| 15 | In July last year came the news that the WRVS was looking for its first chief executive . |
| 16 | He paused in his work to stare at what Dolly was doing to her first potato . |
| 17 | These epistemological questions are examined in his first book . |
| 18 | Both knew the other was thinking of their first meeting and the case of murder in which Meredith had found herself so painfully entangled . |
| 19 | ‘ Raising pupils awareness is especially important as so many young people are injured in their first few days at work . ’ |
| 20 | In real life Britt is starring in her first pantomime role as the Genie in Aladdin at the Birmingham Hippodrome . |
| 21 | From a medical viewpoint , a woman is considered during her first pregnancy as a primigravida and , during her subsequent pregnancies , as a multigravida . |
| 22 | The administration of President George Bush was subjected to its first serious alarm concerning the 66-year-old President 's health when , on May 4 , Bush was hospitalized after developing a rapid and irregular heartbeat . |
| 23 | That first presidential order to send American troops into possible combat was taken on the run , as Bush was preparing for his first superpower summit with Mikhail Gorbachev at Malta . |
| 24 | Bishop Daly was speaking during his first interview since suffering the stroke seven months ago . |
| 25 | Next day I was a second rigger on a Vickers Victoria — a large troop carrier known as the " flying pig " because of its girth , The squadron had a general purpose role and just how general call be gauged by my first flight , which was only a couple of days later — to deliver a coffin-like box to RAF Shaibah near Basra , The journey only took a few hours , On arrival the coffin was decanted and refilled with ice and shark meat in exchange for the pork we had brought from the squadron pig firm . |
| 26 | Tufnell took nought for 50 from 13 overs , with six boundaries being plundered from his first five overs , as Sri Lanka moved smoothly to 140 for one in reply . |
| 27 | The bowlers then found no difficulty in maintaining the lack of momentum as the second day in Colombo ended with Phil Tufnell again struggling for form , taking nought for 50 from 13 overs , with six boundaries being plundered from his first five overs . |
| 28 | ( ‘ Julian ’ and the hyphenated surname were adopted before his first marriage . ) |
| 29 | But now California is poised for its first execution in 23 years . |
| 30 | Kempton usually rode the horse himself ( and had done so ) three weeks before the Liverpool race when Foinavon was last in the Cheltenham Gold Cup — at 500–1 — behind Woodland Venture ) , but his normal riding weight of ten stone ten pounds was way above Foinavon 's Grand National mark of ten stone , and so John Buckingham was engaged for his first ride in the great Liverpool race . |