Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [adv] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another constable now joined the first and the chairman was getting fidgety . |
| 2 | But whether all this back-to-the-future stuff is the final , futile , heroic twitch in the corpse of pop music bludgeoned near to death by metal and techno , or whether this instinctive return to flamboyance and sexual ambiguity really signals the first stirrings of a full-scale revolution , the fact is that 1992 desperately yearns to be 20 years younger and ‘ Back In Denim ’ is New Glam 's most articulate manifesto so far . |
| 3 | This week arguably saw the first real skirmishes of that impending struggle for succession : the sub-text of set-piece deliveries by Sir Geoffrey Howe , Kenneth Baker , Michael Heseltine et al . |
| 4 | Those who expected the election to lead to a radical change in domestic policy certainly found the first two years of the Kennedy era disappointing . |
| 5 | ATORY MP yesterday made the first admission that the Government does not know whether children from poorer backgrounds will be put off higher education by the introduction of top-up loans , writes Celia Weston . |
| 6 | In short course in-shore racing the first beat is the most important leg of the race . |
| 7 | A team at St Mary 's Hospital Medical School recently identified the first gene involved in a form of Alzheimer 's disease , the main cause of dementia in the elderly . |
| 8 | Note that LIFESPAN only checks the first three items ( Issue identifier , Product identifier/title , Client identifier/title ) and inserts missing titles or identifiers once you have entered information for all three items . |