Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] for [art] first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wales were convinced that they were one up on Scotland in having already experienced Joel Dume in their England match , while the Sassenachs ' top brass reckoned Scotland would be at a definite disadvantage for the first 20 minutes . |
| 2 | BGS provided much of the logistical support for the first international conference arranged under the auspices of IGCP Project 294 , Very Low Grade Metamorphism , which was held at the University of Manchester , 5–6 July 1990 . |
| 3 | We acclimatise with shorter trips for the first few days , then split for free sailing , meeting up for a couple of days to brief for another long session of free sailing . |
| 4 | Hezbollah announced 12 candidates for the first two rounds , eight of them in Baalbek , three elsewhere in the Bekaa , and one in Beirut . |
| 5 | Mohammed has a son , Mustapha , who was a lively boy for the first eight years of his life , then some cerebral bug hit him . |
| 6 | The world 's governments will meet in Rome this December for the first global food conference for nearly 20 years , and it is hoped that it will produce the nutritional blueprint for the next century . |
| 7 | This part of Enfield has those yellow sodium lamps that have that delicate rosy glow for the first few minutes after they are switched on . |
| 8 | As part of a five-year probation , Griffin must not leave the jail-like clinic for the first six months . |
| 9 | Capital letter for the first one full stop at the end that 's the main point . |
| 10 | Tickets for the whole event are on sale , price £10.00 , from the box-office of the Empire Leicester Square , and we have pairs of free tickets for the first five readers to arrive at the cinema on Sunday morning bearing a copy of The Independent . |
| 11 | She was one of two Stewart monarchs who had this experience , the other being James I ( 1406–37 ) , who was an English prisoner for the first eighteen years of his reign . |
| 12 | The 1992 , Europe and Trade campaign , beginning in September 1992 , will have an emphasis on Latin America for the first four months and then for the remainder of the year will focus on Europe and Trade in the global context . |
| 13 | This took western European visits for the first eight months of this year to 4.82m , another record . |
| 14 | Later in the year proposals for specific research projects and the Centre 's overall programme for the first three years will be drawn up . |
| 15 | Parents , on duty in turn , kept the egg warm and brooded the tiny chick for the first few days after hatching . |
| 16 | The overall figures for the first two years are given in table I. There have been a total of 16 positive test results , nine of which were confirmed on a subsequent venous sample , giving an incidence of 1:3802 male births . |
| 17 | Official statistics for the first nine months of 1990 suggested that the growth in real GDP fell to 2.8 per cent compared with 5.6 per cent in the comparable period of 1989 . |
| 18 | At first glance , Lambeth 's 2.25% discount from its standard rate for the first 12 months of the loan looks a slightly better deal than Portman 's 2.0% discount for the same period . |
| 19 | IRAS will scan the Milky Way for the first two or three months , concluding with passes over the centre of the galaxy — a strong infrared source hidden from optical astronomers by dust . |
| 20 | Recruit Cosmos , once the centre of a political scandal , has through its finance affiliate been lending money to would-be buyers of its flats at only 0.6% annual interest for the first five years . |
| 21 | Does the following sound an impossible target for the first five years of our society , that we might have a BCR day ( week ? ) on another railway , hiring one of its locomotives and some of its stock , but running good old BCR style mixed trains including at least one goods truck owned and restored by us and painted in BCR livery ? |
| 22 | Shire Counties fared just as strangely , with both Cumbria and Northumberland being at the extreme low end of the ranking in change among these authorities for the first two years and yet requiring one of the largest increases in the third . |
| 23 | and if er , what they 're trying to do is so that you work say twenty three hours the class contact , you , you ca n't be averaged for more than two hours a week , so you need twenty three hours for the first two terms |
| 24 | By the same token try to avoid bright natural light for the first two to three days after the flight at times corresponding to 5 to 11 o'clock in the morning on old time as this will tend to advance your body clock . |
| 25 | This biography is not merely content to tell you everything you ever wanted to know about Dickens ( interesting fact : Dickens spoke with a slight ‘ metallic burr ’ in his voice ) ; nor does it stop at telling you everything you never wanted to know about Dickens ( uninteresting fact : there were white Christmases for the first eight years of Dickens ' life ) ; it goes so far , as with that unidentified novel , as to let you know when it can not tell you something . |
| 26 | The ideal is to leave the ground balanced on the main wheel , and to hold a constant attitude for the first few feet of the launch while the aircraft gains height and speed . |
| 27 | I intend to keep the fry in a number of these nets for the first few weeks of their lives and feed them on newly hatched brine shrimp . |
| 28 | The Martens government succeeded by early 1989 in winning parliamentary approval for the first two stages of a three-stage constitutional reform [ see p. 36774 ] , but by mid-1991 it had been unable to win agreement on the third stage . |
| 29 | Pregnant mothers who are given the tetanus vaccine provide their baby with natural immunity for the first 12 weeks of its life . |
| 30 | However , their leading woman for the first two seasons , June Brae , was a contemporary of Margot Fonteyn , returning to the stage after a break during the war . |