Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj] [noun] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some historians have seen St Pirmin 's monastic foundations ( the most famous at Reichenau ) , by which Pirmin made an important contribution to the Christianization of the south-west German world in the first half of the eighth century , as an attack upon Boniface 's episcopal authority among the Germans , or at least as the creation of a counter-sphere of influence . |
| 2 | The US Office of Technology Assessment classified cobalt as a first tier strategic material , alongside chromium , manganese and the platinum group metals . |
| 3 | Treating cases of child sexual abuse as a first priority needs to be matched with improvements in planning which will permit practitioners to meet this service demand . |
| 4 | SCOTLAND took the Amateur Home International Championship for the first time with an 11-7 victory over the Republic of Ireland at Prestatyn yesterday . |
| 5 | This was brought about in no small degree by the invention in the 1890s of the safety bicycle which gave a wide cross-section of the population real mobility for the first time . |
| 6 | Cimetine reversed the histamine stimulated proliferation of the first two cell lines , however , at a concentration of 10 - 5 M , which corresponded to the cimetidine concentration that induced complete inhibition of histamine on cAMP accumulation in guinea pig fundus and antrum |
| 7 | And veteran broadcaster Mark Page , who is back with the station , popped into the studios to wish his colleague good luck before the first broadcast of the Mark Turnbull Sunday Phone-In . |
| 8 | Under the leadership of a woman Prime Minister for the first time in western European history , the forces of the right , of private business , and the beleaguered middle class regrouped to redesign their nation before it was too late . |
| 9 | A report has been published which looks at the operation of the new Mental Illness Specific Grant in the first few months after its introduction in April this year . |
| 10 | In a report published on January 1990 , the Bank for International Settlements ( BIS ) in Basel noted that banks in the major industrialized countries had significantly increased lending to east European countries in the first half of 1989 . |
| 11 | Despite registering a minus year-on-year growth in the first quarter of 1989 , the inflation rate was over 2.5 per cent by the third quarter . |
| 12 | The seven year old spoke for the first time and darted away to return with the roll of foil . |
| 13 | The District became responsible for Terminal and Short courses extending over six to twelve meetings as well as a variety of informal , pioneering courses and discussion groups of fewer than six meetings ; the last category attracting grant-aid for the first time . |
| 14 | To own a boarding house required capital in the first instance and to maintain the boarding house as a business venture in the early years the husband had to work as a taxi driver or have a part-time job during the winter . |