Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [adv] [verb] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sunderland made no attempt to sit on their lead , however , and looked just as likely as Norwich to score in a second half which comfortably surpassed the first in entertainment value . |
| 2 | To prove the point his shrimpfly caught the first salmon for 15 years when Kilmaurs Angling Club , of which he is chief fund raiser , visited a river near Crianlarich . |
| 3 | During this period he also wrote the first act of the ‘ sacred Singspiel ’ Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots ( 9 ) the remaining acts being written by Michael Haydn ( l737–l806 then Konzertmeister to the Archbishop of Salzburg ) and Anton Adlgasser ( 1729–1777 , court and cathedral organist in Salzburg ) . |
| 4 | It was this second man who now asked the first , the last , question . |
| 5 | The danger of adopting a systems approach uncritically is that it is assumed that it is sufficient to identify system structures and to portray the multitudinous variables involved in a particular system which then reinforces the first law of ecology as graphically described by Commoner ( 1972 ) that everything is connected to everything else . |
| 6 | At the same time he also became the first known clerk of Parliament and thus was responsible for beginning the compilation of the rolls of Parliament . |