Example sentences of "[noun] and [adv] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 How was Norway Chamberlain 's fault and not the First Sea Lord 's ?
2 For statistical reasons and because of the ever changing pattern of pedestrian and vehicular movement at treated sites and elsewhere the first Plan argued for an annual ‘ gross ’ target reduction of 60 casualties .
3 Founded in 1583 , the University has a distinguished tradition of learning and of innovation , including examples in the Arts ( Edinburgh established the first Chair of English Literature in Britain ) , in the Sciences ( with the UK 's first Chair of Agriculture and latterly the first Chair and Department of Artificial Intelligence ) and , of course , in Medicine and the other professions .
4 I eventually made it into the Yorkshire second XI and ultimately the first team .
5 Walking through the village on any racing day one would hear conversation like , " What do you know today Fred " and the reply would bring forth such words of wisdom as " Watch Richards in the 2.30 " , or " Back top weight " for these men had a language of their own and in the evening , meeting over a pint the locals would discuss the downfall of the favourite or starting prices and often the first greeting one would get on opening the door of the bar was " How did you get on today " Tich " " , and often the reply was " First and second , Fred " .
6 The Ambassador , Benedetti , was on leave and so the First Secretary of the Embassy was entrusted with seeing Bismarck in order to put the question to him .
7 There was , indeed , found to be a greater right field advantage in verbal ability and thus the first hypothesis was supported .
8 Victor Atanasie Stanculescu , hitherto National Economy Minister and once a First Deputy Defence Minster under Ceausescu , was immediately appointed as the new Defence Minister .
9 The mechanical output power per phase is simply the product of the phase current and the induced voltage ( Fitzgerald and Kingsley , 1952 ) : As the system is assumed to have an inertia large enough to prevent significant changes in velocity , the time.varying components of mechanical output power are of no interest and only the first term of Eqn .
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