Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Weaver had practised his right-hand script before scrawling the first note to Jack Stone . |
| 2 | Bradley Bone has started well for the 1993 season by winning the first club match with a good bag of eels for 9lb 8oz . |
| 3 | The computerized Belfast Newsletter ( BNL ) Index 1737-1800 seeks to remedy this situation by providing the first comprehensive index of an 18th-century newspaper : 63 years of the oldest , continuously-published English-language newspaper in the world . |
| 4 | Otto Becker , a member of Germany 's silver medal team in the 1990 World Championships , proved his two World Cup horses are in top form by winning the first warm-up on Leandra , and then going clear , though with no pressure , on Landmann in the speed class . |
| 5 | Through a series of reforms , most notably the retiring on full pay of some 8,000 officers , Azaña went some way towards achieving the first of these goals . |
| 6 | So she schemed until she found a way of having the second thing without losing the first . |
| 7 | Since the prize was first announced , a panel of distinguished people has been involved in the delicate task of choosing the first recipient . |
| 8 | I really think you have a fine chance of winning the first prize ! ’ |
| 9 | Langdon believed Kim Ku was the most obvious candidate for leading the first independent government . |
| 10 | From these depths , England went to India and pulled off a remarkable triumph after losing the first Test , and then beat Australia 3–1 in 1985 . |
| 11 | The 1992 Richmond Meet is being marked as a historic occasion by having the first female Meet president . |
| 12 | Glasgow 's Joe Kelly , the British bantamweight champion , will fight Dane Johnny Bredahl for the European title after making the first defence of his crown against Drew Docherty of Croy on April 27 . |
| 13 | Practise an advancing double reverse punch by throwing the first reverse punch with a slight slide forwards on the front foot . |
| 14 | Its release had , however , been held up for some time on instructions from C. M. Woolf , a shrewd film salesman who had played a key role in financing the first projects of both Balcon and Wilcox . |
| 15 | The second great invention for supporting the first invention is finding how to relate the invention itself to the public . |
| 16 | The extra complexity of the second hypothesis may seem a good reason for preferring the first , but in fact any theory of latent inhibition will need to find some place for the idea that associability can change if it is to accommodate the chief conclusions to emerge from Chapter 3 . |
| 17 | This Sunday , Scottish champion Stephen Gallacher , British internationalist , Dean Robertson , and the present and past Walker Cup Captains , George Macgregor and Charlie Green , are on the guest list for the launch tournament at Kelso , at which BGA president , Colin Wood , will get the season under way in traditional fashion by striking the first ball . |
| 18 | Thus , the most useful way of analysing the first two precedents is to compare the provisions in each of them which relate to the same contractual issues and consider the two different approaches . |
| 19 | This project thus aims to fill an important gap by providing the first comprehensive study of policing in Ireland from the 1830s to the 1920s . |
| 20 | Delaunay used to meet Picasso at the gatherings at the Douanier Rousseau 's , while Metzinger was a frequent visitor to Picasso 's studio in the Bateau Lavoir during the early years of Cubism , and was an important agent in transmitting the first discoveries of Picasso and Braque . |
| 21 | His team re-wrote the Turkish record books in the 1991/92 campaign by becoming the first to be undefeated in an entire League programme , joining Trabzonspor and Galatasaray as the only ones to win the championship three seasons running . |
| 22 | In all cases , give yourself time to work into the faster tempo by running the first one comfortably and then gradually applying the pressure . |
| 23 | Barnes confirmed his growing fitness after missing the first half of the season . |
| 24 | Middlesboro 1 , Watford 2 WATFORD enhanced their impressive away record by becoming the first team to win at Middlesbrough 's Ayresome Park in the League this season , writes Ian Whittell . |
| 25 | The 23-year-old Dubliner is a proud man through becoming the first player from South of the Border to become Irish professional snooker . |
| 26 | With an impeccable sense of timing the first major crack in the edifice of classical physics became apparent in 1900 . |
| 27 | We 'll also indicate the beginning of each paragraph by indenting the first line , except where that paragraph is the first of a section . |
| 28 | When the chronicle describes " Osman Ghazi as having no gold and silver in his possession at his death and as rejecting new taxation on dealings in the bazaar as a violation of the our source appears to intend to criticize his own period by setting the first Ottoman ruler as an ideal example . |
| 29 | The Congress had on the previous day voted ( by 1,542 to 368 , with 76 abstentions ) to waive the provision for a direct election , assessing that the " difficult " situation in the country was likely to render any delay in installing the first President a " grave political mistake " . |
| 30 | In steady conditions this is an entirely fair way to start ; a board starting early through the gate has exactly the same chance of reaching the first mark as the last boat through . |