Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [Wh det] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Come round the side , ’ he said , and I followed him down the tarmac path which was about a yard wide , between the school building and a six-foot wooden fence which isolated the first house in the terrace . |
| 2 | By 1983 , he was in charge of the Scotland B team and on the way to forging that illustrious partnership with Jim Telfer which brought a second Grand Slam in 1990 even sweeter than the French game which settled the first six years before . |
| 3 | The research builds on an earlier SSRC funded project which produced the first detailed anthropological study of an industrial town in the Scottish lowlands . |
| 4 | His concerns are moral and religious , and in certain respects , therefore , although they appear to be out of line with the literary culture of Sidonius and his sixth-century followers , they do look back to the moral response which met the first wave of the barbarian invasions . |
| 5 | The second part is a quantitative study which complements the first part . |
| 6 | The tunes were in a slow waltz time but played with that characteristic thump which accentuates the first beat of the bar so strongly as to obliterate everything else , reducing any melodic line to a tribal dance . |
| 7 | No. 147 , in its earliest form , belongs to Bach 's Weimar period ; but for a Leipzig performance in 1723 he added recitatives , the famous chorale which concludes the first and seconds parts of the work , and perhaps the bass aria , too . |
| 8 | Speed got booked for a heavy tackle which prompted the first use of the chant ‘ the referee 's a German ’ . |
| 9 | I ca n't see that it matters , for the fact remains that it exemplifies the very finest and most elegant architecture which displays the first burgeoning of the English Renaissance . |
| 10 | In 1849 he had bought a wire-rope business which laid the first permanent transatlantic telegraph cable in 1866 . |