Example sentences of "[unc] [noun] [verb] [art] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the Yom Kippur War triggered the first oil price shock , this was not the cause . |
| 2 | But the publisher 's favourite remains the first reply he received . |
| 3 | There was a bid by Banbury School to opt out of local control , and in a poll among the parents sixty two percent voted against the Governor 's proposals to become the first school in Oxfordshire to leave County Council control . |
| 4 | Irvine had earlier hit the post and there was no doubting Aberdeen 's willingness to put the first tie behind them and move purposefully into the semi-finals . |
| 5 | Navratilova 's exit marked the first time no American woman had reached the quarter-finals of the US Open since women began playing in the tournament in 1887 . |
| 6 | The marriage relationship takes primacy , so that one 's spouse becomes the first source of support for married people . |
| 7 | Hartlepool 's Procession host the first show at the Empire in Middlesbrough on Monday ; Hug take the tour to Newcastle Poly on March 2 , and on March 5 the Poppyfield bring it to Perry 's in Darlington where the Autumn Divers will also be on the bill . |
| 8 | Tommy Dempsey went close to the visitors just four minutes before half time , but both teams welcomed the referee 's whistle to end the first half . |
| 9 | So the Nash Ensemble 's concert offered a first half of Mozart and Brahms which left one feeling vaguely unsatisfied . |
| 10 | Pioline 's stunner ended Courier 's quest to become the first man to reach all four Grand Slam finals in one year since the great Rod Laver won them all in 1969 . |
| 11 | This spring , the Christian Democrat-led coalition Senate that emerged from last December 's elections announced the first budget for the whole of Berlin since the 1940s — Dm40.1 billion , including Dm12.3 billion specifically for the eastern districts . |
| 12 | Lorton opened his mouth to speak but something in Dougal 's face strangled the first syllable . |
| 13 | Victor Saunders ' expedition to attempt the first ascent of Ultar I — the highest unclimbed mountain in the Pakistan Karakoram — has been defeated in the most galling circumstances imaginable . |
| 14 | Basically the full time I was in basic training and when I went to the Regimental the Royal Highl Fusiliers Regiment the first battalion , I was physically beaten and mentally tortured er into the same bargain . |
| 15 | N.A. Mallender became the first England bowler to take five wickets in an innings on Test debut since N.G.B. Cook ( v NZ , Lord 's , 1983 ) . |