Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] to the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he explained in the rhyming preface to the first part , he had written it |
| 2 | Earlier this season , a last- minute goal from Duncan Ferguson did the damage and the return of the tall striker to the first team after resolving his personal problems is another reason for Aberdeen 's manager , Willie Miller , to view the game with caution . |
| 3 | Salford intend to advertise for a full-time successor to the First Division 's longest serving coach . |
| 4 | ‘ I used to run competitions offering a free T-shirt to the first person who arrived at the station with a burger and chips . |
| 5 | When the London Mercers ' Company presented a petition attacking clerical malpractice to the first session of that parliament , Henry allowed it to be transformed into three statutes , which curbed abuses in the areas of pluralism and non-residence , and in the exaction of probate and mortuary fees . |
| 6 | The prize fund for first place is split into two parts — £2000 to the driver finishing on top of the leaderboard and another £1000 to the first car home using unleaded fuel . |
| 7 | A trip to the blood donors may seem like a strange topic to write about in a staff magazine but it is one that took my mind back a few years to the first time my mum persuaded me to go . |
| 8 | The proposal made some changes to the first paragraph of Security Council Resolution 598 , dealing with a ceasefire and the withdrawal of troops , in line with Iraqi demands . |
| 9 | With midfield ball winner John Sayers out of action for at least 10 weeks after fracturing a bone in his leg in last Sunday 's disastrous home defeat by Cork , Derry were further rocked during a practice match on Thursday night when promising young forward Brian McCarron , promoted this season to the first squad , broke his leg . |
| 10 | Written some 30 years earlier , it centres on the marriage joining a family of Jewish Berlin millionaires to an old Catholic Bavarian dynasty , covering the period from German unification to the first decade of this century , the time of the author 's early childhood . |
| 11 | Becky led her partner up the wooden staircase to the first floor and began a guided tour . |
| 12 | The second unit encroaches on the southeast corner of the first and consists of a slightly raised rectilinear platform with rounded corners , aligned on the east-west road but at a different angle to the first unit . |
| 13 | The south stair winds past the old buttery to the first floor , where levels change in and out of the - bedrooms and chambers . |
| 14 | At the end of the sequence , you may choose to close it with a fade out , but a straight cut to the first shot of the next sequence might be more brisk and businesslike . |
| 15 | There were about 100 of them on Sunday 's evening flight from Bucharest to Tel Aviv , unmistakably Soviet with their fur hats , cheap wintry clothes and suitcases and quiet , mechanical submission to the first taste of Israeli bureaucracy . |
| 16 | Erm before we started this drawing which so if I co , perhaps if I stand here everyone will be able to see which is probably fairly familiar and in , in most respects it goes back about six years to the first master plan that was produced for the estate erm to provide a combination of regeneration and new build . |
| 17 | The Amstrad NC100 notepad — pictured below with Christopher Biggins , do n't ask us why — bears a distinct resemblance to the first item on your list . |
| 18 | The resulting expert system was built from historical data from 15 boards and tested with the data from a further 3 examples and gave similar results to the first expert system built . |
| 19 | I have left this monument to the last because it gives the fullest and most splendid expression to the first phase of fifth-century classical art ; and a comparison of it with the Parthenon makes clear both the essential unity of that style and the difference between its phases . |
| 20 | ‘ I had a very strong reaction to the first episode . |
| 21 | Parallels at right angles to the first set have a vanishing point VP 2 at N . |
| 22 | It will be found that a second set of parallel rods , at right angles to the first group , can overlay them . |
| 23 | In bar 3 the G begins a ‘ transposed ’ group of fourths , while the second half of bar 4 returns to the first grouping , which then continues to the end of the example : |
| 24 | The early law attached great importance to the first test . |
| 25 | I find it difficult to live with such a regimented approach to the first movement , however . |
| 26 | Where the revenue is given in lump-sum form to the first generation , the results are different . |
| 27 | The dogs followed hard on their heels up the deep-treaded , creaking staircase that made a gradual ascent to the first floor . |
| 28 | They saw for the first time what was to become a regular and tragic sequence of events : a dramatic response to the first treatment , a lesser one to a second , and in the end delayed death from a condition which had become as resistant to drugs as it was to radiation therapy . |
| 29 | Lovat had gone , probably tied to a stretcher , placed on a jeep and taken at full speed to the First Aid post . |
| 30 | Reading this group of sonnets is to be reminded of the noble conclusion to the first book of Bacon 's Advancement of Learning : In describing his Friend as my love or He the Poet could be seen as using the third-person form in order to place him apart , perhaps to place him outside the sphere of time 's influence . |