Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [art] first [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trouble for the Tory whips , and for such organisers of backbench opinion as the Chairman of the 1922 Committee , Cranley Onslow , was that far too many Conservative contenders appeared : Peter Brooke , the former Ulster Secretary ; Terence Higgins , a minister as long ago as Ted Heath 's government , and chairman of the Treasury Select Committee ; Sir Giles Shaw , another officer of the '22 ; Paul Channon , another former cabinet minister ; Dame Janet Fookes , some Tories ' hope as the first woman Speaker . |
| 2 | Payment for the first lorry hi-jacking , Wexford thought , a nice little bit of compensation for his concussion . |
| 3 | ANDREJ KANCHELSKIS , blissfully unaware of Manchester United 's long struggle for the First Division championship until last summer , kept the dream alive at Old Trafford last night . |
| 4 | In spite of these absences and the decline of country house building during the First World War , the Twenties saw a steady stream of commissioned work from the Lutyens drawing board . |
| 5 | In the case of language , there is obviously an interaction between the first order system — the language itself — and the second order system of grammar , in which language is represented to its users . |
| 6 | I have a very clear recollection of Nigel de Grey , sometime Lieutenant-Commander in the Naval Intelligence Division during the First World War , giving us a lecture on security which was psychologically scarifying , as indeed it was meant to be . |
| 7 | This was particularly the case after the first oil crisis when the Euro-currency market may have responded too easily to the financing needs of some countries , effectively building up problems for the future . |
| 8 | The Empire reached its zenith after the First World War with the acquisition of former German colonies in Africa and with the addition of League of Nations mandates to govern parts of the old Ottoman Empire in the Middle East — Palestine , Jordan and Iraq . |
| 9 | She was rebuilt into her present form at Cowlairs works in 1915 and served on the continent during the First World War . |
| 10 | It was restarted and , with the break during the First World War , flourished until 1920 . |
| 11 | She went the whole way now : ‘ He 'll pull the switch for the first television transmission to Danu , and that will also be the moment Danu is absorbed into the republic as the fifty-eighth province . |
| 12 | It was one of revolution and civil war , following on from Russia 's collapse during the First World War . |
| 13 | Salengro , having angered France 's far right by issuing a decree outlawing ‘ seditious ’ groups , had been accused of desertion and collaboration with the enemy during the first world war . |
| 14 | As an added incentive the Chester-le-Street group of clubs provide a trophy for the first CIU member past the post and this year the clubmen 's shield went to Paul Casey from Osborne Social Club . |
| 15 | Wilfred Owen was a poet during the first world war and all his poems contain a strong message about war which is usually expressed through a personal experience . |
| 16 | I have also mentioned the question of indictment after the first court appearance , and other hon. Members have suggested other means to tackle the problem . |
| 17 | Abel managed to make £730 , which helped to develop a sports shop beside the Oval , though this later failed and he was rescued from penury by a public appeal launched by the Daily Mail after the First World War . |
| 18 | If the rent under the sublease is made to increase at the same rate as the rent under the headlease , and the rent under the headlease is less than a market rent at the date of grant of the sublease , the rent under the sublease may well exceed the true market rent after the first rent review . |
| 19 | Flames gutted the bedroom of a first floor flat in Saltersgill Avenue , Middlesbrough , at the weekend . |
| 20 | Anti-Communism lay behind several setbacks to early Soviet initiatives in the area , notably the closure of the first trading office in Latin America , Iuzhamtorg ( set up in Buenos Aires in 1927 ) , by the military regime of General José Uriburu who came to power in a 1930 coup . |
| 21 | First , there was a very large increase in the share of petroleum imports from 1973 to 1976 , mainly as a result of the first oil shock ; and again from 1979 to 1982 , as a result of the second oil shock . |
| 22 | It came at a time when dislocation of the Latin American economies as a result of the First World War caused widespread unemployment and increasingly militant labour unrest . |
| 23 | use of L1 ( first language ) rules is hypothesised to be the result of the first language knowledge when a second language We is needed in production but is not available . |
| 24 | NOTEBOOK readers could provide the missing human element in a book being compiled by two members of a group dedicated to the study of the First World War . |
| 25 | Its downward trend was disturbed only by the uncertainty of the First World War and a sharp but transient post-war baby boom . |
| 26 | China has been observing the 150th anniversary of the outbreak of the first opium war . |
| 27 | A magical tale , which tells of man 's disrespect for the natural world around him , as seen through the eyes of an elderly recluse and two young children on the Isles of Scilly at the outbreak of the First World War . |
| 28 | Armstrong was born in 1893 and had a classical education at Oxford before reaching art school just before the outbreak of the First World War . |
| 29 | It was 40 years from the foundation of the German Empire to the outbreak of the First World War : would a ‘ united Europe ’ last that long , and what are its prospects ? |
| 30 | Although one of golf 's Great Triumvirate , along with Harry Vardon and J. H. Taylor — which dominated golf for 20 years up to the outbreak of the First World War — James Braid had an outstanding parallel career in golf architecture , although without any professional training . |