Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [noun] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aldershot , Farnham & District AC promote the first Rushmoor Summer Double — two 10K road races at Rushmoor Arena , one on Wednesday , June 17th and the other on Wednesday , July 29th . |
| 2 | Capel Ablett and Fiery Fred opened the batting for W & V Capel missed the first three balls and played on to his stumps with the fourth ball . |
| 3 | Meantime Southwestern Bell Corp 's mobile systems unit and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd 's Panasonic Communications & Systems Co claim the first commercial personal communications service in the US . |
| 4 | You remember that von Bülow prepared the first performances of the Fourth Symphony with the Meiningen Orchestra but that Brahms himself accompanied and conducted the German tour . |
| 5 | It must have been towards the end of 1920 that Lord Darlington made the first of a number of trips to Berlin himself , and I can remember the profound effect it had on him . |
| 6 | Although teething troubles dogged the first week of pedestrianisation in Darlington traders and shoppers generally welcomed the scheme . |
| 7 | Liverpool won 5-0 at Goodison Park , and Ian Rush became the first player to net four in a derby game since Freddie Howe in 1935 . |
| 8 | In this model , modelling land-use and transportation policies represents the first stage of this air quality simulation system ( Gross , 1982 ) . |
| 9 | The leading positions in the four divisions of the Bootle Snooker League after six weeks of the new season see Liverpool Billiards and Snooker Club leading the first division with 24 points from Corals ( 22 ) and Corals B team ( Bootle ) on 18 from four completed matches . |
| 10 | Young , currently the smartest culture , crit , and sidekick Caveney provide the first serious look at the new wave of American fiction — from the burnt-out brat packers to such authentic talents as Mary Gaitskill and Dennis Cooper |
| 11 | Two years and a historical event passed before Jack Elliot and Harold Farrington made the first commercial flights in Curtiss Jennies , on March 3 , 1926 . |
| 12 | When Mr Bush lost and Mr Clinton became the first Democratic president for more than a decade , the much-valued special relationship between Britain and America suddenly looked decidedly shaky . |
| 13 | IAN HUNTER 'S freak injury means Tony and Rory Underwood become the first brothers to play together for England since the war tomorrow . |
| 14 | Jim Makin , Bill Mellor , Michael Hardman and Graham Lees celebrate the first 10 years . |
| 15 | In June 1953 , Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tensing became the first men to conquer Mount Everest . |
| 16 | She and Hannah Dooley left the First Spiritualist and founded a Household Church . |
| 17 | Rogate authors Roger Chatterton-Newman and Derek Russell-Stoneham check the first page proofs of their book , Polo at Cowdray , with Steve Hotston ( right ) , partner of Acorn Press , Midhurst . |
| 18 | In 1910 , when a delegacy for women students was set up , control of the home students was taken over by the university and Bertha Johnson became the first woman to hold a senior university appointment in Oxford as principal of the Society of Oxford Home Students . |
| 19 | Ronnie Carey made the breakthrough on 16 minutes after a Jeremy Hastings break , and Ashley Blair added the first of three superb conversions . |
| 20 | In 1887 he and A. Tanakadate conducted the first magnetic survey of Japan . |
| 21 | Rory and Tony Underwood become the first brothers to play in the same England side since the war , while Bath No 8 Ben Clarke makes his debut . |
| 22 | The Science Museum claims to have lost about 60% of its visitors in the 12 months after introducing a £3.50 fee for adults in October 1988 ( though the fall is based on a dodgy head-count , before entrance tickets provided the first precise numbers ) . |
| 23 | When Victor Paige became the first general manager of the health service he found himself in a very different job from any that he or anyone else had occupied before . |
| 24 | When Abbey national became the first lender to win no less than three Which Mortgage awards : Best Overall Lender , Best First-time Buyers Product and Best High Street Bank in 1991 , the company proved how efficient and comprehensive its mortgage services are . |
| 25 | One little piece of history was made when Roland Butcher became the first black man to play for England , and by a neat coincidence it was on the ground just fourteen miles from his birth-place . |
| 26 | THE BEGINNING OF THE END Lord Young looks on as Paul Reichmann drives the first pile at Canary Wharf in 1987 . |