Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [adv] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | South Shields found themselves having to rely on a mix-up in the defence late in the first half to let Gary Davies in to give them the lead at the interval . |
| 2 | Sir Percival Sharp fought for the AEC mainly on the first issue — but could find no support — so that the second , the potential extension of the power of central government , went largely unchallenged . |
| 3 | Let's begin by looking at how to connect the Macintosh and the PC together in the first place . |
| 4 | Sighing , she swivelled round , looking at the cabin properly for the first time . |
| 5 | In May 1987 with the club still in the first and the accounts showing a profit , Robert Maxwell , under fire for his involvement in other clubs like Watford and Derby County , handed chairmanship to his son Kevin . |
| 6 | The one that eluded him was that of the Association of Golf Writers which , asked to nominate who had done most for European golf , decided on the Walker Cup team that went to the United States and won the trophy there for the first time . |
| 7 | I think everyone needs the director to be vitally interested in the work well beyond the first week of actual performance . |
| 8 | In 1856 he exhibits on his lawn a stuffed crocodile he has brought back from the East : enabling it to bask in the sun again for the first time in 3,000 years . |
| 9 | And this really was the basis therefore of the first films , they were really demonstrations that pictures could move , and this was sufficient for people to pay a few pence to come in erm and look at the films . |
| 10 | Manor took the lead midway through the first half with a well-taken goal by Sean Annells . |
| 11 | Duncan Shearer shot them into the lead midway through the first half with his 21st goal of the season . |
| 12 | You know that old old saying about football being a funny game , well this tie was even funnier than that , Joey Beauchamp shot United into the lead midway through the first half . |
| 13 | Skipper , Derek Hall cracked them into the lead midway through the first half . |
| 14 | On tries the cherry and whites won by three to one … they looked sharp enough moving into attack … and looked good enough for victory … they even took the lead midway through the first half … with a well worked and well taken try by Tim Smith … |
| 15 | United took the lead midway through the first half . |
| 16 | It started well enough , with Dave Mitchell giving Town the lead midway through the first half . |
| 17 | Gary Blissett gave Brentford the lead midway through the first half , which was a bad one for the Town defence . |
| 18 | Hawthorn took the lead early in the first quarter and the Cats then had to play catch-up . |
| 19 | The period immediately before the First World War was dominated by a series of reforms adopted by the Liberal government after 1906 . |
| 20 | In the period immediately before the First War , the growing political militancy of the Women 's Social and Political Union ( WSPU ) , along with the publication of feminist books and pamphlets on sexuality , radicalized the older , more traditional women 's organizations . |
| 21 | The period immediately before the First World War saw rapid economic and social change in Ireland . |
| 22 | ( a ) the date on which the scheme is to come into effect , being a date not later than the day immediately before the first transfer date ; and |
| 23 | I cut the grass yesterday for the first time and it was like a meadow ! |
| 24 | The modern practice of numbering the days of the month consecutively from the first to the last came to the West from Syria and Egypt in the second half of the sixth century . |
| 25 | He would give the game away within the first hour and Felipe de Santis would throw them out . |
| 26 | Max Nicholson started and finished the move which brought the only goal of the game midway through the first half … |
| 27 | And the Silverstone Race Circuit saw the launch today of the first British-powered Formula Three Car since the 1970s . |
| 28 | And the Silverstone Race Circuit saw the launch today of the first British-powered Formula Three Car since the 1970s . |
| 29 | The old nomes grumbled among themselves , and scanned the sky anxiously for the first signs of robins or reindeer . |
| 30 | Because we have so many cameras I can have for the editing a great many possibilities ; and if we have filmed the music properly in the first place we can already have created some very important effects just with one shot — the violins may have the principal melody with an important counter-melody or harmonic detail in the violas , so we might shoot the passage in such a way that we have the violin bows in the foreground , the conductor , and the violas clearly focused as the third element in the shot . |