Example sentences of "our first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hamlin … all gone … so plenty for us to chew over in our first rugby review . |
| 2 | We 've an Italian flavour for our first rugby action of the new season because Gloucester are just back from a two match trip to Venice . |
| 3 | Those who kept up at the front got back to the barracks first , got into the showers first , got dressed first , and were ready downstairs in combat kit for our first singing lesson with Sergeant Moustaine . |
| 4 | ‘ We saw several venture companies and one of our first questions was : ‘ How much of the equity can we get ? ’ ' recalls Mr Pearch . |
| 5 | ‘ We had a few minor hiccups getting the tunnels and heating equipment commissioned but we were able to fill our first shed in July . |
| 6 | Our first daughter , Lewis-Ann , sometimes complained : ‘ Why ca n't we be like normal families and go to France or Greece ? ’ she would moan . |
| 7 | Unsurprisingly , given this position , he is insistent that Anglo-Saxon and philology be retained as essential features of English studies , even in the light of the growth of the discipline : " Our first responsibility is to our subject , and , as that expands , we must not look for more ingenious methods of selection but for more time to do it justice . |
| 8 | Our first thought might be that the easy way out is to develop a subject-orientated curriculum . |
| 9 | If we want to find out about ancient people and the sites they used and constructed , our first thought might be to consult the archaeologists . |
| 10 | Sweeping into it after a lumpy sail from Lundy , our first thought is an ‘ If only … ’ |
| 11 | Our first thought might be that an individual bank which was short of base money could raise the rate of interest it offered to depositors . |
| 12 | Our First Venture |
| 13 | Our first venture into the CIS took place in late 1992 with an award to undertake an ambient air quality study of the world 's largest gas field in Kazakhstan . |
| 14 | Regional director Wyn Roberts said : ‘ It is very important as this is our first venture into the private schools sector in Scotland . |
| 15 | Some of them were quite elementary as when we first poked our nose out of Spithead one day and our first roll tore the fridge from its fastenings . |
| 16 | But you could not in all honesty , Wilson , expect us to make that our first consideration . ’ |
| 17 | The wishes and feelings of the old person are properly our first consideration , though , even if there is no risk to others , one can not necessarily in all circumstances make them paramount . |
| 18 | Overseas Contracting performed well due to the Kosice contract in Slovakia where we laid 118,000 tonnes of asphalt from July to November and successfully completed our first asphalt runway in Eastern Europe . |
| 19 | Our first sight of the island was a sharp mountain peak jutting through the low cloud which unfortunately spoiled our view , but in minutes we were through the cloud and touching down on the long black runway which ran parallel to the shores of the fiord . |
| 20 | Our first sight of the restaurant was one of lanterns twinkling through the dusk . |
| 21 | Then take a limiting case : if nobody but the original painter or painters of the great roof bison of Altamira had ever seen this work ( and comparable work may still be lying undiscovered ) , would any of us wish , on our first sight of it , to deny its status as art because it had not been consciously exhibited ? |
| 22 | Elstir is described by the narrator as an artist who painted objects , and I quote , ‘ not as he knew them to be , but according to the optical illusions of which our first sight of them is composed . ’ |
| 23 | After our first Tracker , Alert , was launched in November 1976 , others followed rapidly in her wake , the last one of six being launched in 1979 to form the backbone of our new , modernised fleet . |
| 24 | In 1990 we found our first chiff-chaff on the count of March 11 and in 1989 , two early sand-martins and a solitary wheatear on March 12 . |
| 25 | Er we have er inherited a problem of over-forecasting perhaps in the seventies , with our first structure plans in the sense that the er employment was forecast to be much higher at that time . |
| 26 | ‘ You could say that our first success is the fact that we exist , ’ he says . |
| 27 | So that was our first success when we decided that process . |
| 28 | This is our first error : conscious control over behaviour is generally overstated . |
| 29 | Our first floor got flooded , but it never rose higher than that ’ |
| 30 | It was also , we knew , a slight manipulation of events : in our first test of choosing between the interests of purely " documentary " objectivity , and those of cinematic drama , we came up wanting . |