Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun] [verb] [art] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You never get a second chance to make a first impression . |
| 2 | ‘ Two wrongs may not make a right , Doctor , but sometimes the second wrong helps the first rest easier . ’ |
| 3 | Crown counsel informed defence counsel of an inconsistency between the sister 's testimony and her first statement without showing him that statement or revealing that she had made a second statement confirming the first statement in that respect . |
| 4 | Said , alright , I said the first week said the first week I said , then it 'll |
| 5 | ( 6 ) In August 1983 the third defendant claimed from C.M.C. a commission of £16,000 for himself and £8,000 for Highdene in respect of certain commercial arrangements , not involving the bakery , negotiated between C.M.C. and B.M.T. It is said that this claim led the other directors of C.M.C. to investigate the third defendant 's activities and to dismiss him as a director of C.M.C. ( 7 ) Between May and July 1983 the third defendant caused the first plaintiff to sign in blank some cheques drawn on C.M.C. 's bank account by fraudulently representing that these cheques would be used to pay small and urgent bills of C.M.C. It is said that in fact the third defendant used six of these cheques to pay to himself and certain other parties sums amounting to about £30,000 , allegedly in connection with the financing of the centre . |
| 6 | More than ten thousand British fans travelled to Barcelona last months to witness the first Olympics to be held in Europe for 20 years . |
| 7 | The sky above them lit again , and the next rumble produced the first spattering of rain . |
| 8 | ‘ Another Clerk ’ wrote the next day to say the first writer must be blind to his own interests . |
| 9 | THE novelist VS Naipaul last night became the first winner of Britain 's biggest literary prize , worth £30,000 . |
| 10 | LABOUR LEADERS last night suffered the first setback of the Brighton conference when delegates overwhelmingly rejected pleas for unity by demanding heavy cuts in defence spending . |
| 11 | HTV last night claimed a first victory in its fight to prevent a rival ITV company swallowing it up . |
| 12 | Hewlett-Packard Co last week launched the first interconnect board under its February agreement with IBM Corp under which the two committed to adapting fibre optic interconnection boards for linking computers to peripherals and computers to computers developed by IBM for the AS/400 and RS/6000 to meet the ANSI Fibre Channel standard . |
| 13 | Somalia is disintegrating into anarchy : Richard Dowden last week became the first outsider to visit the parts of Somalia controlled by anti-government guerrillas . |
| 14 | The Cetia SA subsidiary of Thomson-CSF SA , which specialises in VME workstations and processor boards for real-time applications , last week introduced the first computers based on the IBM Corp-Motorola Inc PowerPC 601 microprocessor . |
| 15 | The chief innovation is allowing the third umpire to make the first move in decision-making , which the TCCB admits could lead to : ‘ Suspension of a decision already made ’ . |
| 16 | It carries one of the largest selections of English language titles in France , and last year extended the first floor with a showroom for ELT materials . |
| 17 | The next year brought the first indications of the troubles which were eventually to lead to the Goldsmiths ' abandonment of the School a decade later . |
| 18 | OSF which is said to have already started coding for the GAIA specification , has slated the middle of next year to deliver the first snapshots of the specification . |