Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [noun] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other structures were dispersed to linger only in the imagination of designers ; in its place Conservative freedom provided London with the first of the giant company headquarters built in the style of Orwell 's Ministry of Truth — the Shell building ( 1958 ) . |
| 2 | Mopping : Perhaps the best method for large areas is to use a kentucky mop as part of a two bucket mopping system with the first bucket filled with cleaning solution and the second with hot clean water . |
| 3 | When his friend Calder took an autumn break , Sole skippered Scotland for the first time , in a 38-17 win against Fiji at Murrayfield . |
| 4 | In mid-November a United States congressional delegation visited China for the first time since the massacre . |
| 5 | In November a Vatican delegation visited Vietnam for the first time . |
| 6 | This little ceremony takes place at the first ‘ at homes ’ after the election , when the civic party meet the public at the Mansion House . |
| 7 | The following year their home was established at the Manor Ground , Plumstead , and in 1904 the club won promotion to the First Division . |
| 8 | For the year as a whole turnover topped £100m for the first time rising 10.4pc to £101.6m . |
| 9 | The Chamber of Deputies , by 126 votes to 69 , with 12 abstentions , on March 29 approved a law allowing abortions during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy for women who were deemed by doctors to be " in a state of distress " . |
| 10 | The work has voices in the first two movements , but is essentially for solo organ , dazzlingly played by Gaston Litaize , who clearly enjoys himself of the magnificent beast which lives in the church of St. Francois-Xavier in Paris . |
| 11 | Our work uses information from the first interview and the benefit records . |
| 12 | An art shop in the city of London sold four cotton based portfolios in the first week and doubled this in the second . |
| 13 | The dead material is left to dry , is then burnt and left to cool ; planting in the fertilizing ash takes place after the first rain . |
| 14 | Well I think it basically means everybody does does wha we 've asked them to do , which is the work shadowing content of the first week . |
| 15 | They treated him like a child trying champagne for the first time . |
| 16 | The proportion receiving aspirin within the first 24 h may be substantially lower . |
| 17 | Unpublished figures from Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution ( HMIP ) , Greenpeace says , indicate that 22,580 tons of toxic waste entered Britain in the first six months of this year . |
| 18 | Axil also introduced an Open Look-based fax/modem package called AxilEnvoy as the first in a series of software products to provide added functionality such as voice mail , conversation record/playback , multimedia document support , security , image filtering and editing and optical character reading . |
| 19 | Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. has set out the medical evidence available to us and , in my view , on that evidence it would not have surprised me if there had been a finding that at the relevant time on 5 July , suffering as she was from considerable and continuing pain in her chest , coughing up sputum , on various drugs designed to alleviate pain and to act as sedatives and during the evening suffering contractions in the first stage of labour , she was not in any event fit to make a decision . |
| 20 | Further modifications and addenda took place in the first half of the twentieth century . |
| 21 | His funeral took place during the First Test at Trent Bridge , with South Africa the tourists : play was halted as a tribute to the man whose valet helped him to contrive county cricket 's most amazing victory . |
| 22 | Bourgeois literature was unequivocally condemned on three counts : first , for its failure to voice opposition to the First World War , a failure in other words to disclose the true reality of the war as an imperialist struggle ; secondly , for its refusal to offer an accurate depiction of the Soviet revolution , a failure explained as the cowardly refusal of the bourgeois writer to disclose the deepening crisis of capitalism after 1929 , a crisis highlighted by the success of the five year plan in the Soviet Union ; finally , for its refusal to face up to the growing threat of fascism . |
| 23 | Despite field reports that this initial DCE release lacks robustness , USL expects its OEMs to ship product to end users in the first half of 1993 based on it . |
| 24 | Domestic consumption of grain overtook production for the first time . |
| 25 | ’ Tomlinson says decisions on the first hospitals to close should be made ‘ urgently ’ . |
| 26 | The Royal Academy shows Calder in the first British show for thirty years |
| 27 | When Chris Lewis replaced Malcolm , ball dominated bat for the first time in the match , with nothing to show for it . |
| 28 | The Bramham Three Day Event took place for the first time in 1974 . |
| 29 | This means that , for both sentences , it is only the arrival of the word cats which allows the listener to complete interpretation of the first clause . |
| 30 | The duke presented certificates to the first 16 volunteers who have been trained for the scheme . |