Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [art] first [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The violence prompted a first wave of mainly Hutu refugees to flee to Rwanda and to Zaïre . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ] . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The sky above them lit again , and the next rumble produced the first spattering of rain . |
| 7 | This , at length , came under the control of Virgin , as the principal British investors , and The Great Rock ‘ n ’ Roll Swindle became the first production of a new company , Virgin Films . |
| 8 | At 29 , the head Raider does not appear to accept that his best years are behind him , bad news perhaps for Jonathan Davies , for whom the press conference provided a first glimpse of a man whose reputation travels before him . |
| 9 | Of the students in my time , one has since become an archbishop , John Aung Hla ; another , John Maung Pe became the first bishop of Akyab , and another who came for a short term of study and an even shorter curacy was John Richardson , the saintly schoolteacher , catechist , priest and bishop in turn of Car Nicobar , where under his influence the whole of the island population , including witch doctors , became Christian . |
| 10 | THE novelist VS Naipaul last night became the first winner of Britain 's biggest literary prize , worth £30,000 . |
| 11 | LABOUR LEADERS last night suffered the first setback of the Brighton conference when delegates overwhelmingly rejected pleas for unity by demanding heavy cuts in defence spending . |
| 12 | LOCHABER lifted the first silverware of the season when they beat Kinlochshiel 2-1 in the final of the Glenmorangie North Qualifying Cup . |
| 13 | The axeman wore the first beard of a boy and had big ears that stuck through his hair . |
| 14 | The hon. Gentleman quoted the first paragraph of AMMA 's report . |
| 15 | In 1987 Conservative ministers boasted of their success while still claiming that the conquest of inflation remained the first objective of policy . |
| 16 | So the Nash Ensemble 's concert offered a first half of Mozart and Brahms which left one feeling vaguely unsatisfied . |
| 17 | On 2 November , two Chambers of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation passed the first reading of a draft law on export and import of works of art . |
| 18 | ‘ LIKE A LITTLE bird , sweet and smooth ’ , was how a jubilant Dick Melton of Dick Melton Aviation described the first flight of Hurricane G-ORGI from a Hampshire airstrip on September 8 . |
| 19 | On Feb. 20 the Ukrainian Supreme Soviet approved the first draft of a bill to alter the administrative system . |
| 20 | The case marked the first use of the Organized Crime Control Act of New York State in connection with fraud on Wall Street 's financial markets . |
| 21 | Detective Inspector Milsom said quietly , ‘ Because the doctor laid the first slice of the fillet — the piece that you do n't give to guests — to one side of the carving dish … |
| 22 | On 9 January 1991 a 25 year old woman with asymptomatic human immunodeficiency virus infection received a first aerosol of pentamidine isethionate for primary prevention of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia : 300 mg of pentamidine isethionate was dissolved in 10 ml sterile water and inhaled in sitting position , over 15–25 minutes , via an ultrasonic nebuliser . |
| 23 | Sandra Bernhard MC 'd the first part of the show alongside American Vogue 's André Leon Talley , Daniel de la Falaise escorted Kylie Minogue down the runway , BodyMap 's David Holah and film-maker John Maybury appeared in drag , as did Pierre and Gilles dressed as bride and groom . |
| 24 | The Trust paid a first dividend of 6s in the pound . |
| 25 | Last week Harvard University Press published the first conspectus of myremecology since 1910 , by Dr Wilson and Dr Bert Holldobler ( a fellow Harvard professor ) . |
| 26 | In July 1870 the war began , and suddenly the Channel became a first line of defence rather than an obstacle to trade . |
| 27 | Hambro Countrywide 's shares soared 7p to 36p on Hill 's bullish comments , boosting its market value by nearly 25% , as the stock market savoured the first piece of good news about housing for a long time . |
| 28 | The site layout had a first premium of £500 , a second of £200 and a third of £100 . |