Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun] [verb] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | A similar exchange opened in 1880 in Ipswich , and in 1891 the Borough of Chelsea launched the first municipal exchange . |
| 2 | In 1988 , Andrei Kataev and two other physicists at the Institute of Nuclear Research in Moscow published the first calculation for routes which involve three gluons ( Physics Letters B , vol 212 , p 238 ) . |
| 3 | Tests are also available to help teachers monitor the progress of students using the first three Streamline coursebooks : Departures , Connections and Destinations . |
| 4 | Initialisation involves a change of handshape to represent the first letter of the English translation of the sign ( see chapter 6 ) . |
| 5 | In 1977 a female student at the University of Missouri became the first patient to be turned from a woman to a man by means of surgery . |
| 6 | Gold EIA went ahead to commission the Centre for Environmental Management and Planning at the University of Aberdeen to undertake the first phase of the EIA , its scoping . |
| 7 | In 1985 , however , the Ministry of Agriculture took a first step towards meeting environmentalists ' objections , with a new ‘ Guidance for Drainage Authorities ’ on investment appraisal . |
| 8 | THE Princess of Wales faced the first day of her formal separation with a composure and dignity which never slipped . |
| 9 | For a valid range of module issues the first version must be less than the last version . |
| 10 | For a valid range of module issues the first version must be less than the last version . |
| 11 | For a valid range of module issues the first version must be less than the last version . |
| 12 | For a valid range of module issues the first version must be less than the last version . |
| 13 | For a valid range of module issues the first version must be less than the last version . |
| 14 | This year sees the centenary of Peter Rabbit and since Wedgwood already dominates this characterware market segment the company has added a special range of items to celebrate the first appearance of Beatrix Potter 's famous character . |
| 15 | Former Herioter Dr Bill Fiddes was fully occupied coping with the stream of injuries reaching the first aid room as three visitors in Harper , Gibson and Ireland also departed the field injured and with Selkirk assuming control for possession , Middleton and McConnell rampant at the line-outs , the home backs settled to the style of play inherited from John Rutherford for points to come thick and fast . |
| 16 | Only a handful of shows survived the First World War , during which many of the old varieties of berries became extinct . |
| 17 | On 5 September 1818 , James Hamilton , grocer extraordinaire and showman by nature gave the first public commercial showing of the new ‘ light-brackets ’ by installing ‘ sex jetties ’ , or six of the ‘ wee lights ‘ , as we might say today . |
| 18 | The Court of Appeal dismissed the first and second defendants ' appeal against Mr Justice Vinelott 's order that the defendants permit the plaintiff 's solicitors to inspect and take copies of an affidavit in the possession of the defendants ' solicitors . |
| 19 | However , more recently , in Eurocopy plc v Teasdale , reported in the journal PLC in November 1991 , the Court of Appeal upheld a first instance decision , and dismissed an application to strike out a defence , that in connection with a sale and purchase agreement , the actual knowledge of the purchaser might still be a defence to a claim for breach of warranty notwithstanding a clause in the sale and purchase agreement which provided that no actual or constructive knowledge on the part of the purchaser would prejudice a claim . |
| 20 | UNFORTUNATELY , I was unable to be present at the luncheon at a London hotel on Tuesday when the Duke of Gloucester presented the first English Tourist Board car park awards . |
| 21 | The former British champion from Sunderland took the first step back on the road to championship level by stopping Clarkson with 65 seconds gone of the fifth round . |
| 22 | This lack of English settlement in Aquitaine struck the first British student of Anglo-Gascon history as notable . |
| 23 | The argument from analogy concedes the first half of this but denies the second , claiming that we have at least some evidence to the contrary . |
| 24 | IN MARCH , Wood Group ESP was awarded its biggest international contract to date to supply the first large-scale utilisation of electric submersible pump systems to Saudi ARAMCO . |
| 25 | The firm of Longman claims the first dust jacket , on Heath 's Keepsake for 1835 . |
| 26 | By the time of the Treaty of Vienna and the Concert of Europe , such a system had become formalized , and the Treaty of Versailles following the First World War brought in many more participants ( and took power to create new States , like Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia ) . |
| 27 | In the 1952 election campaign the Republicans promised to take a tough line with the Russians , and the appointment of John Foster Dulles as Secretary of State seemed the first step in fulfilling that pledge . |
| 28 | TONIGHT The Royal Geographical Society in Kensington hosts the first in a series of lectures to promote the National Trust of Scotland in the south of England . |
| 29 | The Club and Institute Union was officially formed in London on June 14 , 1862 and a few months later Henry Solly resigned his pulpit at the English Presbyterian Church in Lancaster to become the first fulltime paid secretary of the Union . |
| 30 | That great British trouper , Tommy Steele , now aged 56 , will on Wednesday become the first non-Scandinavian to receive the Hans Christian Andersen Award since it was established by the Hans Christian Andersen Committee three years ago . |