Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | A 70-year old woodland has become the first plantation forest to be declared a Site of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSI ) by English Nature . |
| 2 | Established British companies had exploited the first whiff of pop vitality , with ABPC putting the saccharine personality of Cliff Richard through his paces in The Young Ones ( 1961 ) , a let's-have-a-show musical where all possibility of an interesting inter-generation clash is defused by the fact that its hero works for , and adores , his father , the property developer who wants to destroy the youth club ; and Summer Holiday ( 1962 ) , in which Cliff and the Shadows drive a London bus to Rome , pursued by the mother of the teen star they are thought to have kidnapped . |
| 3 | First , the gurus argued , this slump had produced the first fall in house prices since the early 1950s . |
| 4 | The acoustic front-end failed to detect the first vowel . |
| 5 | The inability of the States of Western Europe to play a decisive role in the solution of these new questions was shown clearly by the impotent resentment with which the French government had to watch the first partition of Poland in 1772 and the Russian annexation of the Crimea in 1783–84 . |
| 6 | Then an orange light flares in front of them , and I know some joker has thrown the first Molotov . |
| 7 | DESPITE consistently pool weather and a frightening episode in which they were avalanched in their tents , two members of a british expedition have made the first ascent of the South Face of Thalay Sagar , one of the most attempted and failed on mountains in the Indian Charwal Hamalayas . |
| 8 | LOTHIAN REGIONAL Council has taken the first step towards a total ban on smoking from 1 January next year . |
| 9 | The self-evident gap between fantasy and reality — which is that no government , anywhere , of any political complexion has got the first clue about how to organise society in the post-Cold War world — has led to an aimless disgruntlement , a poisonous mixture of envy and ennui . |
| 10 | The Canadian courts have taken the first step , by accepting that the media has a qualified privilege to publish information ( which later turns out to be false ) about a possible public health hazard . |
| 11 | It is obviously to the husband 's advantage in such circumstances to seek to persuade the first mortgagee to offer the wife a further advance of sufficient amount to repay the second charge . |
| 12 | The man chosen was Russell Butler , a research student in social history at the University of London , who as a part-time tutor had taken the first course for apprentices at Marconi and had greatly impressed both here and in other courses for the branches in Hemel Hempstead and St. Albans . |
| 13 | Mrs Pat Taylor , of Prestatyn , was one of 100 women nominated to attend the first North Wales Woman of the Year lunch , at the Kinmel Manor Hotel , Abergele , which raised £10,000 for the work of the children 's charity , Barnardos , in Wales . |
| 14 | In addition to the third instalment on the Cuyp , the national gallery has made the first instalment on a Cranage painting . |
| 15 | Previous albums have included the first eight now on Mercury , the final couple on Silvertone . |
| 16 | Paris-based Thomson-CSF SA 's Must Software International SA has announced the first versions of its Nomad applications generator for Unix , starting with IBM Corp systems . |
| 17 | She remembered the bride of one year , alight with the happiness of those early celebrations when the Grand Duke had granted the first liberties , and thought how strange it was for an English woman to be so mad with joy . |
| 18 | Jackson 's 1957 paper had made the first study of muon catalysed fusion in mixtures of deuterium and tritium but had concluded that there too the energy return did not offer much practical hope . |
| 19 | Longman the least seasonally biased of the three struggled to break even in the first half and this removed the normal pattern of Longman 's half-year profits helping to offset the first half losses of the other two businesses but before we get too depressed er I point out that Addison Wesley s sales were up by eleven percent and the size of the first half loss reflects the company 's decision to gear up in advance er , for what we w believe will be a very strong er , second er , half performance . |
| 20 | The Belgian government has ordered the first multi-language version of Chemdata from the National Chemical Emergency Centre . |
| 21 | The European Commission has accepted the first set of standards worked out for the EC 's ecolabelling scheme , which aims to inform consumers about the environmental impact of particular products . |
| 22 | The 14 March 1988 order recorded that accounts had already been supplied to the plaintiffs and that those accounts had discharged the first defendant 's accounting obligations ‘ subject only to the plaintiffs ' rights under Ord. 43 , r. 5 of the Rules of the Supreme Court 1965 and their rights to require vouching of the said accounts . ’ |
| 23 | Many no doubt sincere Christians continued to celebrate the first day of January in defiance of their clergy 's disapproval , or liked to greet the rising sun from the steps into the church , and , most of all , to attend the great festive games and shows . |
| 24 | A ROMANTIC couple have become the first Britons to wed in Disney World , Florida . |
| 25 | The ticketholder of the first ticket drawn has the first choice of artwork . |
| 26 | There were two jangling mistakes from Horner giving away early penalty points to Soutter , and after only 11 minutes the former champion had pocketed the first game with a good backhand drop from a short ball . |
| 27 | A BABY ostrich called Linford after the Olympic flyer has become the first of his kind to be born in Britain outside a zoo . |
| 28 | The Californian authorities have announced the first form of public transport to be powered by alternative energy sources . |
| 29 | Sharp Corp aims to become the first Japanese company to make colour liquid crystal displays overseas when it starts manufacturing its super-twisted nematic displays — the lower-cost , lower performance colour displays — at its Sharp Microelectronics Technology Inc in Camas , Washington . |
| 30 | When they moved into this house in January 1945 Edie began writing the first of two consecutive five-year diaries . |