Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [v-ing] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maintenance and improvement works have been carried out over the past few months resulting in the first Sunday train leaving at 5pm . |
| 2 | Commanded by Gen. Satish Nambiar of the Indian army , the force included contingents from 30 countries including for the first time Security Council permanent members France , Russia and the United Kingdom . |
| 3 | While speaking he had been aware of the Doctor 's red , exasperated features grimacing in the first rank at the foot of the stairs ; he had seemed nervously excited , anxious , impatient that the auction should be over . |
| 4 | Well , my feeling is , and it 's really the same message that you get from most greens and most environment books , is that under-consumption , that is poverty in the poor countries , is linked to over-consumption in the rich countries , and we have to grasp this nettle — it 's one that the Conservative Party in its White Paper on the environment avoids noticeably — we have to grasp the nettle , that as long as we are over-consuming there 's not going to be enough to go round everywhere , and my book shows that this pattern is really a three hundred year old pattern dating from the first Colonial expansion of Europe and the slave trade , and it 's still going on today . |
| 5 | I refer to the rapid decline of the use of walnut in English furniture making in the first half of the 18th century . |
| 6 | Corgi 's answer to All the Sweet Promises , a long , absorbing , atmospheric Second World War tale of four different girls meeting as the first of the WAAFS and contributing courageously to the fight . |
| 7 | The Italians keep a second striker lurking behind the first . |
| 8 | On 15 May , in a second telegram continuing from the first [ KP 120 ] , he reported on his " brief flying visit to General Keightley at Headquarters 5th Corps at Klagenfurt " . |
| 9 | There were seventeen precepting bodies operating in the first year of the new system and a larger number of ad hoc bodies which could levy funds . |
| 10 | Two trips were organised due to three pregnancies coinciding with the first dates . |
| 11 | Some astronomers have convincingly argued that a BL Lac object ( a clumsy terminology referring to the first of this class to be discovered ) is simply a quasar with one of its beams pointing straight at us . |
| 12 | When the US Marine Corps ' 2 Division stormed ashore at Tarawa in November 1943 , a third of the 5,000 marines landing on the first day were casualties because the Japanese were well prepared and the tide played fateful tricks over the reefs . |
| 13 | And the overall toll , which includes sectarian murders , shows a similar trend with 46 people dying in the first five months of last year compared to 29 this year . |
| 14 | In our study , all strictures appearing in the first decade and 82% of those appearing in the first two decades of disease were benign , while most ( 61% ) arising after 20 years or more were malignant . |
| 15 | The collection totals approximately 150 items comprising an historical survey of first-class material ranging from the first to the nineteenth century AD . |
| 16 | If in doubt , keep two provisional subjects going for the first half of the first term — and then drop the one that appeals to you the less . |
| 17 | It was important to have transport , mobility , He reserved two rooms at the luxurious hotel which had a large reception hall and modern curving staircases leading to the first floor . |
| 18 | The Chairman , , welcomed and presented certificates to three newly qualified teachers attending for the first time . |
| 19 | He had no idea the club would prove so popular — with 750 members joining in the first 5 months . |
| 20 | On 16 November 1987 solicitors acting for the first defendant wrote saying that he hoped to sell the property , and the proceedings were adjourned generally . |
| 21 | Yet , the unambitious satiric intentions are fulfilled , the most successful sequences coming in the first fifteen minutes . |
| 22 | We had spent nine months working on the first one ! |
| 23 | Paintings erm have the power to take you back in time , I can look at a painting and remember something that 's happened yesterday or years and years ago and as a small child , looking at this painting I remembered as a small child seeing for the first time erm the sea dipping into er , sorry the sun dipping into , into the sea and being horrified I was convinced that the heat of the sun would boil the oceans and the world dry and it reminded me for an awful lot of my childhood and I 'm sure if I 'd seen this painting years ago it would of persuaded me otherwise , erm this is called In A Days Work Satisfaction in a days work , chosen not given , eating the laxed food , face turned to steer a sun , making cloth into a gown and giving colour to the side of a boat |
| 24 | On the first night we went on aguided tour of the Stonehenge works and saw various locos dating from the first world war and plenty of ex-sand wagons which were used in the pits of the area . |
| 25 | It is fair conjecture that the Chelsea porcelain painters working from live plants sought subjects from the nearby Physic Garden , where they might find many impressive exotics flowering for the first time in this country . |
| 26 | Sedgemore is the only coalminer playing in the First Division of the Heineken League . |
| 27 | For the critic William Feaver , Treasure Island represents Minton 's greatest triumph as an illustrator , ‘ a surge of inky hysterics extending from the first creak of the shivering timbers of the Old Admiral Benbow to the vividly contrived Spyglass Hill ’ . |
| 28 | One hundred and twenty one patients with parenchymal cirrhosis presenting with the first variceal bleeding episode between June 1983 and December 1988 were studied . |
| 29 | The Cordillera Real Mineral Programme is an in-depth metallogenic study following on the first four years ' reconnaissance . |
| 30 | Although he will take urgent steps to impose a new contract , which they have rejected , he has told the doctors ' and dentists ' pay review body that he is prepared to tackle any problems arising in the first year . |