Example sentences of "[noun] of [verb] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two methods of resolving the first problem are : |
| 2 | Maginn spent the rest of his life as a dedicated missioner in Belfast , where in 1888 he had the pleasure of becoming the first superintendent of the Mission Hall for the Adult Deaf and Dumb which was opened that year by Miss Wilhelmina Frederick . |
| 3 | The honour of making the first speech may go to the best speaker or the best friend , providing your choice keeps as many people as possible happy ! |
| 4 | SUE HOLWELL , the England sweeper , had the honour of scoring the first goal in the Women 's Typhoo National League when it got underway on Saturday . |
| 5 | For the players of Torpedo Moscow will not only be fighting for the honour of becoming the first side to beat Manchester United in a European tie at Old Trafford . |
| 6 | He had been expelled from grammar school at the age of sixteen , manufactured tie-dye T-shirts , and then worked in the refreshment kiosk in the monkey-house at London Zoo , where he had the distinction of organising the first strike ( of staff , not animals ) in the zoo 's history . |
| 7 | He lost , thereby achieving the distinction of becoming the first person in history who could be proved to have failed his degree . |
| 8 | Defender also had the distinction of having the first woman finisher , Mandy Gallow . |
| 9 | However , it is in danger of rendering the first condition for knowledge redundant . |
| 10 | The President had also apparently abandoned his aim of holding the first round of legislative elections on Oct. 25 [ see p. 39086 ] , and agreed to reschedule them for late November ( with a number of opposition parties still calling for a further postponement ) . |
| 11 | On a trumped-up charge of assassinating the first President of Zanzibar , Abeid Karume , Babu was held in detention from 1971 to 1978 . |
| 12 | The facility of incurring the first obligation became a temptation to a second . |
| 13 | In steady conditions this is an entirely fair way to start ; a board starting early through the gate has exactly the same chance of reaching the first mark as the last boat through . |
| 14 | I really think you have a fine chance of winning the first prize ! ’ |
| 15 | With the greatest respect to Rumbelows , and the 76,000 packed inside Wembley , United hope that their success yesterday will soon be dwarfed by the achievement of lifting the First Division title for the first time since 1967 . |
| 16 | The other system is known as record-playback and involves the skilled craft operator going through the physical motions of machining the first piece of the batch with the machine in record mode . |
| 17 | She has reintroduced a Dutch Open , and has made impressive strides in terms of organising the first European-based Solheim Cup , the women 's equivalent of the Ryder Cup . |
| 18 | Clearly , groups of two bases would be insufficient , because there would be only 4 2 = 16 ordered pairs ( that is , there are four ways of choosing the first base , and , for each choice , four ways of choosing the second ) , and hence only 16 different amino acids could be specified . |
| 19 | That is , the probability of obtaining a word string , W , is given by the probability of finding the first word , w1 , multiplied by the probability of finding the second word , w2 , given w1 etc. , multiplied by the probability of finding the last word , wn , given that all of the previous words were found . |
| 20 | As a way of emphasizing the first charge , TV commercials were run , including clips from old Reagan films embellished with slogans such as ‘ Vote for a real governor , not an acting one ’ , or ‘ Over the years Ronald Reagan has played many roles . |
| 21 | sought orders under section 6(2) directing the solicitors to pay such sums as the court thought fit for the purpose of restoring the investors to the position in which they were before the transactions were entered into and under section 61(1) directing the solicitors to pay such sums as the court thought fit or to take such steps as the court might direct for the purpose of remedying the first defendant 's contravention of sections 47 and 57 . |
| 22 | The most fundamental events in people 's lives are strongly affected by their social class , ranging from their chances of surviving the first year of life through likely age of marriage and number of children to the kind of diseases they are most likely to die of ( Reid 1977 ) . |
| 23 | Even the teenage mothers ' infants had good chances of surviving the first year of life , if their fathers were 25–29 years old . |
| 24 | The Secretary of State was being totally disingenuous because , if the cancellation cost of the fourth boat is the same as the cost of cancelling the first boat would have been , it would be cheaper to build the thing — so saving on the unemployment benefit that would otherwise be payable to the constituents of the hon. Member for Barrow and Furness ( Mr. Franks ) — and not deploy it . |
| 25 | The Lord President also made the following observation in relation to the consequences of sustaining the first ground , 1959 S.C . |
| 26 | Since the prize was first announced , a panel of distinguished people has been involved in the delicate task of choosing the first recipient . |
| 27 | At the time of writing the first cycle of review and reporting by Oxfordshire 's schools is now virtually complete and a second cycle is planned . |
| 28 | RICHARD CORSIE 's hopes of becoming the first player to secure a third World Indoor singles title since the game went open back in 1981 remained intact yesterday . |
| 29 | RICHARD CORSIE 's hopes of becoming the first player to secure a third World Indoor singles title since the game went open back in 1981 remained intact yesterday . |