Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [art] first [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The motion , tabled when the government invoked a technical measure to pass the first reading of the 1993 budget without a division , failed when the Communist Party ( PCF ) deputies once again refused to back it , saying that they would not vote with the right . |
| 2 | However , where the contribution , if any , is not sufficient to make up the difference , the Legal Aid Board has a first charge on any property , including money , recovered or preserved by the assisted party in the proceedings . |
| 3 | As the conflict between Milosevic and the FRY intensified [ see below ] , the Serbian delegation boycotted the first meeting in Zagreb on Oct. 12 of the committee set up under the Sept. 30 agreement to normalize relations between Croatia and the FRY . |
| 4 | In 1970 , the Library Association produced the first set of specific standards for school libraries that Great Britain had ever had , embodying the library 's new name , and including an analysis of implications for finance , planning , staffing and service which was immediately recognized as being incomplete . |
| 5 | In November 1990 , a man convicted of multiple rape and murder became the first person in Tunisia to be executed since the President came to power in 1987 . |
| 6 | This new concern , among social thinkers of different persuasions , with the opportunities for peaceful change no doubt results in part from a revulsion against the extreme violence characterizing the first half of the twentieth century , and against the authoritarian political regimes which some kinds of violence have brought into existence , as well as from a deep-seated and pervasive apprehension of the ultimate consequences of violence in the age of nuclear weapons . |
| 7 | Following the religious ceremony , Monsignor Olavio Lpez Duque blessed a memorial plaque symbolising the first stone of the central processing facilities ( CPF ) . |
| 8 | The leading positions in the four divisions of the Bootle Snooker League after six weeks of the new season see Liverpool Billiards and Snooker Club leading the first division with 24 points from Corals ( 22 ) and Corals B team ( Bootle ) on 18 from four completed matches . |
| 9 | Garston Snooker League are now approaching the half way stage with Woolton Village Club leading the first division with 23 points from eight games closely followed by Mossley Hill Legion ( 22 ) . |
| 10 | The deal marks the first venture by Peabody , already the biggest US coal-mining company , into the Pacific Rim . |
| 11 | More significantly , the State Department evinced the first sign of active hostility to Cuba by pressurising the British government into rejecting a Cuban order for military helicopters . |
| 12 | During a demonstration to mark the first anniversary of the group 's move to its new location , 300 people , including over 160 police officers , were injured in battles between 1,400 police and at least 7,000 demonstrators . |
| 13 | Hence the current study forms the first part of a contextual recognition system . |
| 14 | Any higher level processing must begin with orthography , hence this study forms the first part of a contextual system . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I have made few attempts in this chapter to give the first references to ideas or discoveries . |
| 17 | The violence prompted a first wave of mainly Hutu refugees to flee to Rwanda and to Zaïre . |
| 18 | Although it had held power in several of Canada 's western provinces , however , the Ontario result marked the first occasion upon which the party had won a provincial election east of Manitoba . |
| 19 | Whether the startling but short-lived explosion of punk rock represented the first sign of a new situational fracture ( new production methods ; ‘ outrageous ’ music ; independent operations ) , or the last twitch of the moment of ‘ pop culture ’ ( a rerun of rock 'n' roll do-it-yourself amateurism ) , or a less organic , conjunctural tremor ( like hip hop , ‘ charity rock ’ , Bruce Springsteen , Billy Bragg and many more ) is difficult to say . |
| 20 | THE contest to represent the first district on the Los Angeles Board of County Supervisors hardly sounds like national news . |
| 21 | The decision of the BBC to change the format , in effect dropping the first half of the old programme , is not surprising . |
| 22 | Captain Bligh of the Bounty took the first apples to Australia ; Jan van Riebeeck , the founder of Cape Settlement , took them to South Africa and the Pilgrim Fathers who boarded the Mayflower carried them to America . |
| 23 | Dundalk clinched the double with victory over Derry in the 1988 FAI Cup Final and the following season the Brandywell club took the first step towards a unique treble with a stunning 4–0 win in the League Cup final at Oriel Park . |
| 24 | The accord marked the first application of the so-called " Brady plan " designed to encourage voluntary debt reduction schemes [ see pp. 36541-42 ; 37016-17 ] . |
| 25 | Your listening to the Fox Report ; sport , and last night , Oxford United Football Club won the first leg of their second round clash with Port Vale in the Rumbelows League Cup . |
| 26 | I had arrived at Ullapool by bus in mid-afternoon , determined to satisfy an ambition to make a first visit to Lochinver . |
| 27 | Freemasonry claims the first loyalty of men . |
| 28 | Gary Stretch makes the first defence of his British light- middleweight championship against Rochdale 's Derek Wormald at the London Arena tonight , knowing it could lead to a lucrative world title eliminator against Leicester 's Chris Pyatt . |
| 29 | Although the Democrats increased their share of the vote , the party 's leader Janine Haines failed in her bid to become the first candidate from a minor party since 1966 to win a seat in the 148-seat House of Representatives . |
| 30 | AT the end of last month the University received the first information from the UFC on its recurrent grant and funded student numbers for 1992/93 . |