Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [conj] [verb] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | But eventually selective breeding turned the tables on quality , and the economic boom that followed the First World War brought an explosion of demand for fur , for the first time a high-fashion commodity . |
| 2 | We 're holding an arm-wrestling and spinach-risotto evening at the Cock and Pullet in Poplar and we 'd very much like you to do a twenty-five minute cabaret and cut the first slice of a twelve-metre onion quiche , baked by MOLES , you know , Mothers of Optometrists Lesbians , Esperantists and Social Security Clerks . ’ |
| 3 | I watched them decide on the wrong place and paint the first mark carefully round a sapling 's trunk . |
| 4 | After this he made them both some cocoa and began the first of the Just So stories . |
| 5 | Corbett made his way through the thick clogged sand and entered the first one . |
| 6 | And you are left in this condition during the operation , then at the end of the operation they give you a second injection that reverses the first one that paralysed you . |
| 7 | This is the second Point that balances the first and safeguards it from the other extreme — being too soft on doubt . |
| 8 | It seems that the professional game , in contrast to our European and world rivals , has revered the second tenet but stifled the first . |
| 9 | Do n't bother would be more honest , for he prefers to have the kitchen to himself in the early morning , to prepare his own simple breakfast and enjoy the first cigarette of the day undisturbed . |
| 10 | Skiing was one of the best-kept secrets in the world until Mathias Zdarsky invented downhill or Alpine skiing and opened the first real ski school near Vienna by the beginning of the twentieth century . |
| 11 | At Great Bedwyn we stop for welcome break and cheer the first of the singles through . |
| 12 | The Tsar wavered briefly and then , urged by Stolypin and others to stand firm , he rejected any step which might lead to parliamentary government and dissolved the First Duma . |
| 13 | On Fuar Tholl , Wilson and Niall freed the superb Tholl Gate in good condition at V. On Sgurr a'Chaorachian 's north-west buttresses , the chossy summer line Jupiter , a fine but rarely frozen 1200ft I/V , was climbed by Brian Davison and I. We also climbed Eastern Promise , a very steep but co-operative V on the eastern Ramparts of Coire Mhic Fhearchair and made the first ascent of the West-Central Wall by an even steeper line based on Mistral ( VI ) . |
| 14 | Bradford thereafter took the lead in the provision of medical inspection on a large scale and established the first school treatment clinic , developments which owed much to the energy of Margaret McMillan . |
| 15 | The fact that family circumstances gave the school-leaver little option but to take the first available work , and the highest paid , was appreciated by exchange officials . |
| 16 | Accelerating up to Mach I.8 , he took the Foxbat over the Mongolian border and began the first of his two runs down the Sinkiang-Uighur plateau . |
| 17 | A drawing attributed to the Persian artist Dust Muhammad , dating from the mid-sixteenth century and depicting the first scene from the tale of ‘ Haftvad and the Worm ’ , bears the estimate of £25–35,000 ( $45–60,000 ) . |
| 18 | There can be little doubt that these are Naxian works , deeply influenced by the East Greek style and transmitting the first impression of that style to Athens where soon , as everywhere , its influence was to become pervasive . |
| 19 | What had been intended as a warning shot across the government 's bows has sunk a government that had given Poland a year of political continuity , maintained budgetary austerity against populist opposition and taken the first steps on two essential reforms that now go into limbo . |
| 20 | Then a group of local armourers assembled in the square , were blessed at a makeshift altar and turned the first shovelful of earth on the foundations of the new building . |
| 21 | There is no point in arguing who cast the first stone or threw the first bomb , destroying a church hall or a GAA club . |
| 22 | Accompanied by his wife , whom he had married shortly before sailing , Johnson arrived with the first fleet and celebrated the first Anglican service under ‘ a great tree ’ at Sydney cove on 3 February 1788 . |
| 23 | If you are honest , approaching with an open mind and saying the first thing that comes into your head , you will gradually find you are able to contribute real information and will gain confidence in your abilities . |
| 24 | They emanate from a time about 300,000 years after the Big Bang and show the first signs of fluctuations in the density of matter in space . |
| 25 | Periodical payments of maintenance escape the statutory charge as does the first £2,500 of any money or property preserved or recovered ( Civil Legal Aid ( General ) Regulations 1989 , reg 94 ) . |
| 26 | He also ( at any rate while writing the first part of his book ) admired the young Charles , who consulted with his nobles and followed the good counsels of bishops . |
| 27 | In the summer of the same year that saw the first air mail service across Western Canada I met Hollick-Kenyon by arrangement in New York . |
| 28 | Quite early , I made up my mind that all I wanted to be was a top flight boxer , to follow Jack Johnson in my own way and become the first black British heavyweight champion . |
| 29 | I pulled out the compass , held it horizontally close to my eyes , let the needle settle onto north , looked that way and mapped the first few feet in my mind . |
| 30 | GEOFF Hornby had a close shave while making the first ascent of Peak 9070 on the south side of Mount Hunter in Alaska . |