Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] [prep] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TUESDAY 'S play in the first round singles events having been rained off were played yesterday in the 31st Dun Laoghire Bowling tournament in Dublin . |
| 2 | Islington JS followed in the footsteps of their all-conquering home team , FA Cup winners Arsenal , when they raised the winner 's trophy at the first Central and Western area five-a-side tournament on May 23 . |
| 3 | So , similarly , in the First World War , we assumed proudly as an accolade of honour the Kaiser 's ridicule of the first British Expeditionary Force as that ‘ contemptible little army ’ . |
| 4 | The first five notes of Clemens 's bass are indeed those of the plainsong eighth-tone Magnificat , but his superius is identical with that of Sermisy 's ‘ C'est une dure despartie ’ except that it does not follow Sermisy 's repeat of the first two phrases and does repeat his last phrase . |
| 5 | At yesterday 's opening of the first multi-party parliament in 26 years , the president said that the management of the country was the responsibility of Kenyans and no-one else , and promised that his government would present its own economic strategy . |
| 6 | Paul Piana 's presentation of the first free ascent of the Salathe Wall on E1 Cap will go down in history as one of the best ever . |
| 7 | Sturge chairman David Coleridge said : ‘ Wise Speke 's performance in the first half year suffered from the depressed level of activity in the Stock Market as a result of political and economic uncertainty prior to the General Election . |
| 8 | Until April 1988 , as a widow under 60 you are entitled to the widow 's allowance for the first 26 weeks after your husband 's death provided he paid enough contributions . |
| 9 | He and Helen were blissfully happy , alone now in the house where they had lived with Helen 's mother for the first few weeks of their marriage . |
| 10 | So that you can try them yourself , Elizabeth Arden is giving away a week 's supply to the first 750 readers whose names are picked on 28 February . |
| 11 | In 1915 he exhibited six works in the ‘ invited to show ’ non-members ' section of the first Vorticist exhibition , held at the Doré Galleries in London . |
| 12 | C2 ) Pattern 2 shows a single copy integrated at the 3' end of the first allelic locus and 3 adjacent copies at an internal position on the second allele ( 3:1 arrangement ) . |
| 13 | During the Gulf War , hotel occupancy rates dropped to as little as 30 per cent in some areas , well under the average 60 per cent occupancy in the first two months of a normal year . |