Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [noun prp] [verb] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gloucestershire trainer Chris Broad saddled the first winner … and Wantage jockey Graham McCourt took the second race … |
| 2 | Although there was some confusion between their maps and descriptions of the peak , Knox-Johnston , Bonington and Greenland expert Jim Lowther made a first attempt on the peak on 11–12 August . |
| 3 | Boss Robin Miller says the first issue of computer games magazine Nintendo Magazine System sold a massive 150,000-plus copies . |
| 4 | Commenting on the company 's figures ( see opposite ) , AT&T Co chairman Robert Allen says the first quarter results , excluding the accounting changes , auger well for the rest of the year . |
| 5 | The Norwegian biologist Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe made the first important observations on dominance , in the 1920s . |
| 6 | Store manager Paul Ainger and retail director Colin Harvey welcome the first customers at the front door . |
| 7 | The French inventor Louis Daguerre took the first photograph of the Moon in 1839 or slightly earlier , and since then literally thousands of detailed pictures have been acquired , including those transmitted back-to Earth by the Moon-probes of the late 1950s and the 1960s . |
| 8 | Team captain Murphy grabbed a first half hat-trick and added a fourth 15 minutes from the end to make it a great day for the Derry boys . |
| 9 | The Australian geologist Douglas Mawson discovered the first in 1912 when he spotted a black stony meteorite in the snow near the coast of Adelie Land ( Figure 1 ) . |
| 10 | Having won two of this series in the fastest times already , he would have had to finish four seconds behind the steeplechaser Mark Rowland to lose the first prize of £5,000 . |
| 11 | A NEW can recycling scheme was launched in Darlington yesterday when council leader John Williams opened the first of many Save-a-Can recycling banks . |
| 12 | It 's 100 years on Sunday since Gentleman Jim Corbett won the first world heavyweight title under Queensberry rules . |
| 13 | Durham County champion Craig Kilgour made the first steps towards his comeback last weekend when he was among a number of county players who took part in a coaching session held by English Golf Union coach Bill Ferguson . |
| 14 | But in 1607 his friend Agostino Agazzari published the first little treatise on continuo performance , Del suonare sopra il basso con tutti stromenti & uso loro nel conserto , which does explain the use of figures . |
| 15 | The Celtic player Davie Hay and the late Hibernian full back Erich Schaedler made the first brave attempt , but they chose a defective boat and capsized almost immediately . |
| 16 | TI 's Sparc marketing manager Phil Campbell said the first few lots of the reconstructed chip will be coming off the line in December with volumes following sometime during the first quarter . |
| 17 | Leeds manager Howard Wilkinson revealed the first approach was made on Wednesday . |
| 18 | Winger Lee Sharpe scored the first goal of his memorable comeback and said : ‘ I do n't think I 've ever played in a better team perform-ance . |
| 19 | Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley dug the first turf for the new £36m hospital back in November 1990 . |
| 20 | Winger Derrick Morgan scored the first try . |
| 21 | Leeds United 's winger Albert Johanneson became the first black player to appear at Wembley in the 1965 Cup Final against Liverpool , who won 2–1 after extra time . |
| 22 | Chief executive Bill Hughes said the first quarter had been difficult but order books for the second were showing ‘ promising signs of improvement ’ . |
| 23 | True to historical precedent , it required a white rock musician to have a hit with a black man 's song — in this case Eric Clapton with ‘ I Shot the Sheriff ’ — before the breakthrough could occur ; but at length Bob Marley became the first reggae superstar . |
| 24 | ROYAL Liver League champions Dublin take the first tentative steps towards retaining their Leinster crown when they face Wexford in Wexford Park today . |
| 25 | On May 3 Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu became the first Japanese head of government to issue an unambiguous apology to countries of south-east Asia for Japan 's actions during the Pacific War . |
| 26 | Nine months later , Francis ' team dominated Canadian sprinting , and the following year Angella Taylor became the first of the group to reach world class . |
| 27 | New South Wales premier John Fahey pulled the first ‘ CFC-free ’ beer in Australia — a Guinness — at Sydney Irish pub the Mercantile Hotel recently . |
| 28 | Inside Story ( BBC-1 9.30pm ) producer Tom Bower presents the first investigation into Rowland , unravelling his past , tracing the controversial path which earned his fortune and revealing those who have benefited and suffered under his single-minded dictat . |
| 29 | ‘ They have been introduced to Nicky Campbell 's show and in fact Steve Wright did the first interview with John Smith when he became Leader of the Opposition . |