Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] [art] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The motion , tabled when the government invoked a technical measure to pass the first reading of the 1993 budget without a division , failed when the Communist Party ( PCF ) deputies once again refused to back it , saying that they would not vote with the right . |
| 2 | With very few exceptions , judges are required to be selected from amongst practising barristers and it is difficult for anyone without a private income to survive the first years of practice . |
| 3 | It was presented , to Darlington Harrier Andy Campbell , when the race was established as an open event in 1904 and given to Duncan McLeod-Wright to keep when the Scottish runner became the first man to win three times , in 1929 . |
| 4 | To the passengers in the skies over the Atlantic drinking free champagne to celebrate the first anniversary of Virgin Atlantic , oblivious to all the dramas which had unfolded to keep them airborne , it probably would have seemed a bargain . |
| 5 | No one not in the profession would know for sure whether the assassin had accepted or refused the job ; and no one except the contact and , in this case , the client , would know for sure exactly who was responsible for the messy death of Seren Haminh , probably about fifty hours from now , when the hunger would be rising again and giving her a few hours to sleep the first ecstasy off . |
| 6 | All right then , just this once , and only because Strawberry Story sound like Andrea from the Darling Buds singing the first Mary Chain album . |
| 7 | All right then , just this once , and only because Strawberry Story sound like Andrea from the Darling Buds singing the first Mary Chain album . |
| 8 | Any higher level processing must begin with orthography , hence this study forms the first part of a contextual system . |
| 9 | But Kevin Keegan 's team are still 12 points in front and their good-looking football dominated the first half and the last 20 minutes . |
| 10 | As the conflict between Milosevic and the FRY intensified [ see below ] , the Serbian delegation boycotted the first meeting in Zagreb on Oct. 12 of the committee set up under the Sept. 30 agreement to normalize relations between Croatia and the FRY . |
| 11 | This chapter uses the first measure to give an outline indication of how big a part credit , overall , plays in consumer spending , and how that has changed over time . |
| 12 | I have made few attempts in this chapter to give the first references to ideas or discoveries . |
| 13 | This conference provides the first opportunity in West Belfast itself for the unemployed , community groups , local business people , policy makers , managers and administrators of employment and training schemes , funders , careers teachers , trade unionists and others to discuss present and future employment prospects of people living in West Belfast . |
| 14 | ‘ We have trained the nurse caring for this infant to recognize the first signs of desire for food . |
| 15 | Alan Davies ' men had good reason for jubilation as a spirited fight-back earned a first Championship win since 1989 . |
| 16 | Fittingly the local-born lad took the first spot kick which completed the first leg of what could see the city 's two clubs meet for the first time in the last four . |
| 17 | Only 12 per cent of British managers have a first degree . |
| 18 | The means by which he had got this cadetship proved the first strand in a complicated web that snared him at his trial for treason . |
| 19 | The hon. Gentleman quoted the first paragraph of AMMA 's report . |
| 20 | I am not surprised that the right hon. Gentleman avoided the first point , because the report to which my hon. Friend the Member for Poole ( Mr. Ward ) referred produced the following answer within the Labour party : ’ Some argue it will highlight one of our weaker points ’ . |
| 21 | Few people write a first draft perfectly and you should expect to complete several revisions . |
| 22 | Ahead of its international user meeting and training conference in San Jose , California , on the 27th of this month , when the majority of System 10 components will be debuted , Sybase Inc this Wednesday unveils the first module in the latest release of its relational database management system products . |
| 23 | Some teachers said the first draft of the unit was biased toward an anti-nuclear view , Ris concedes , but he adds that the final version is more balanced . |
| 24 | This had been floated in 1948 by the clothing establishment as a discreet gentleman 's fashion harking back to the golden days before ‘ socialism and formica ’ , but had been quickly coopted and camped up by the gay underground ; the more exaggerated aspects of this style caught the first Edwardians ' eye and , together with the Western Look that pervaded their favourite culture , American cowboy films , it formed the first youth style proper . |
| 25 | The French champions became the first club to hit six goals since the semi-final group system was introduced last season . |
| 26 | This currently funded project represents the first stage of this research . |
| 27 | This project continues a first phase of research funded by the Office of the Data Protection Registrar , the Office of Telecommunications and the Department of Law in the University of Sheffield to investigate current law and practice in a number of European member states and in the United States with the aim of contributing to current policy debates and examining the handling of the issues of privacy and new technology by different legal and administrative cultures . |
| 28 | John Roderick 's party attacked the guns off the starboard bow , the 12 men capturing the first gun 's sandbagged emplacement in a grenade-throwing rush along the dock wall . |
| 29 | Early work on primate social systems yielded the first model of their social evolution in the mid-1960s . |
| 30 | That could be bad news for any theoretical widow suing a first aider who had left her husband to die while scouting around for a telephone . |