Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [noun] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | A clutch of companies involved in technology from the Soviet space programmes has been given permission for the first time to deal direct with foreigners . |
| 2 | Or suppose that I am eating escargots for the first time and can not bring myself to forget the disgustingly slimy look and feel of snails in the garden . |
| 3 | Cash boost : Wirral council staff who retire are to receive £90 for the first 25 years of service and £3.60 for each subsequent year following an increase in long service awards . |
| 4 | Statistics on the death penalty in the USSR have been made public for the first time since 1934 . |
| 5 | ‘ Its combination of performance , quality engineering , specification and economy will win customers away from competitive models and attract buyers who are considering diesel for the first time , ’ he said . |
| 6 | These are the children who sometimes crack at university level because they are facing challenge for the first time in their lives . ’ |
| 7 | If you are installing LIFESPAN for the first time , then it is recommended that you create up to three LIFESPAN Processes , as described below . |
| 8 | You should read this section if you are installing FMS for the first time , or are not sure if you have sufficient global sections and global pages available . |
| 9 | McEvoy , 39 , is back on the amateur circuit after being chosen as England captain , and has been having lessons for the first time ‘ to stimulate my game . ’ |
| 10 | STATE school exam results tables will be made public for the first time this week in the biggest Government publishing exercise since ration books . |
| 11 | RUGBY LEAGUE : The Stones Bitter Premiership final at Old Trafford on Sunday , May 17 , is to be made all-ticket for the first time . |
| 12 | Disabled people from twenty one countries are taking part in the first wheelchair games of its kind . |
| 13 | Get Ready ! is a lively two-level course for children who are learning English for the first time . |
| 14 | Jitters and Curtius Kenne had been knocked flat by the first blast . |
| 15 | ‘ Father Tom , ’ he said , as if he were meeting Carey for the first time for a long time . |
| 16 | This is not to say that it was the consequence of the rise of Fordism ( i.e. , the changes that were taking place during the first half of the 20th century in capitalist methods of production ) . |
| 17 | Helen felt as if she were hearing Nicola for the first time . |
| 18 | Many of the cast were discovering Dickens for the first time . |
| 19 | THE Queen is to visit Lockerbie for the first time since the air disaster there more than four years ago . |
| 20 | Young children in this environment are prone to recurrent febrile illnesses , known to inhibit gastric acid secretion , and theincidence of acute Helicobacter pylori infection in this particular community is approaching 50% in the first year of life . |
| 21 | If the softly spoken Welshman is making history as the first rugby man to conquer soccer , he will not be the last . |
| 22 | Canadian firm Consensys Computer Inc , Markham , Ontario since 1985 , a vendor of intelligent input/output cards , is laying claim to the first shipments of USL Unix SVR4.2 Destiny shrink-wrapped binary operating systems for Intel iAPX-86 architectures . |
| 23 | This month she is visiting Britain for the first time in years . |
| 24 | Neighbours and business people , many of whom are confronting disability for the first time , have yet to work out ways of behaving with respect towards them and ways of making links which are welcome and helpful . |
| 25 | Some of the singers knew their place in that production — almost miraculously , Gergiev had coaxed Sergei Leiferkus away from a couple of London Fiery Angels to sing Tomsky for old times ' sake — but one of Gergiev 's protégés , Gegam Gregorian , was tackling Hermann for the first time , and Maria Guleghina had flown in for Lisa . |
| 26 | Bully Boy 's owner , Ron Taylor , who is involved in various interests in Lambourn , admitted to having ‘ a nice punt ’ on the six-year-old , who was tackling fences for the first time . |
| 27 | Kit had learned how to grow certain lucrative crops on the mainland , when he served with Roger Pole and the local Indians had been drafted to instruct them ; but he was cultivating indigo for the first time , in Sycorax 's former enclave , and he found the plant tricky and demanding and considered its production women 's work . |
| 28 | It would be a marvellous feat if the 22-year-old swimming pool attendant from Wakefield was to supercede Hare at the first attempt . |
| 29 | In the 1950s , when the late Heinz Under was presenting Torontonians for the first time with the symphonies of Gustav Mahler in the York Concert Society series in Massey Hall , I will never forget the ecstatic moment , after a dozen tumultuous curtain calls at the end of the Resurrection Symphony , when the elderly maestro lifted the heavy score off the stand — and shook it as vigorously and as high as he was able , in homage to the great composer . |
| 30 | By 1291 settlers had created Middleton Sancti Georgii on a low silty plain a mile downstream , but this was abandoned centuries before the first guard called ‘ tickets please ’ . |