Example sentences of "[noun sg] in the first [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Whitbread brewing and leisure company will provide 100 jobs as part of its £2 million investment in the first Scottish outlet for its American-style Thank God It 's Friday bistro chain . |
| 2 | John Bond 's side never got a look in as Quakers took command in the first half hour . |
| 3 | We suspect that the high concentration in the first clinical vignette was due to sampling too early . |
| 4 | The issue of jobs was now added to the left agenda , as the print workers finally lost their grip on the production jugular of the industry in the first fundamental update of print technology since the late Middle Ages . |
| 5 | Plans for broadcasting in the First Five Year Plan included the setting up of community listening points , the building of regional and satellite stations , the replacement of transmitters and the provision of a tape transcription service for the better preservation and use of recorded material at Broadcasting House . |
| 6 | No force had taken a worse drubbing in the first mad onrush of Plan XVII than the Second Army that had then been under his command ; yet , in the moment of defeat , he had made an astonishing turnabout . |
| 7 | On February 24 , company borrowings under the credit agreement totalled $4.3m and the chip designer says that as a result of getting this new credit agreement , restructuring of key equipment leases , and the company 's return to profitability in the first fiscal quarter to December 31 , it believes substantial progress has been made toward killing doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern . |
| 8 | This would be caused by a faulty transistor or IC device in the first audio stage of the unit . |
| 9 | He fought as a banneret in the first Welsh war of 1277–8 , visited Gascony and Paris on Edward 's business in 1278–9 , and fought again in the second Welsh war of 1282–3 . |
| 10 | There was , he pointed out , no such article in the first Soviet constitution , adopted in Lenin 's time . |
| 11 | NORTH-EAST politicians clashed yesterday over the health service in the first major debate of the election campaign . |
| 12 | example An essay pointing out that Shakespeare 's first sonnet ends with a comma in the first printed edition and arguing that this is because it is the first part of a larger poem including also the second sonnet . |
| 13 | She had given in because she found him irresistible and , looking at his strong brown back in the first grey light of dawn , she still found him so . |
| 14 | And they took part in the first worldwide television broadcast , singing All You Need Is Love live to an estimated audience of 150 million . |
| 15 | wins its independence from South Africa ; SWAPO and other exiles return to take part in the first general election . |
| 16 | Continuing buoyant fish feed demand should result in being ahead of budget in the first half year . |
| 17 | Bazaine has pointed to the existence of the red robe in the first known copy of the painting , made in 1607 , nineteen years after Veronese 's death , and the fact that the red was a focal point in the composition . |
| 18 | Czechoslovakia goes to the polls this month in the first democratic election since 1946 . |
| 19 | In due course , she entered government as the wife of the President of the Board of Trade in the first Labour administration ( where her social background came in useful advising less elegantly born wives on ‘ clothes and curtseys ’ when visiting the Palace ) . |
| 20 | WHILE in London to sing the title role in the first British production of Verdi 's Stiffelio , the great tenor Jose Carreras has agreed to take part in the Australia Day Gala Concert . |
| 21 | ‘ I will never forget our victory in the first French Test , ’ he added . |
| 22 | Relations between Egypt and Israel , already strained by differences over the Middle East peace process , deteriorated further after the arrest of four Israeli citizens accused of spying for the Jewish state in the first such case since the signing of the Camp David peace accords between the two countries in 1978 [ see pp. 29654-60 ] . |
| 23 | Celestial omens began to be used as portents on a considerable scale in the first Babylonian dynasty ( eighteenth to fifteenth centuries BC ) , although lunar eclipses may have been regarded as ominous previously . |
| 24 | Sturge chairman David Coleridge said : ‘ Wise Speke 's performance in the first half year suffered from the depressed level of activity in the Stock Market as a result of political and economic uncertainty prior to the General Election . |
| 25 | Our diagnostic efficiency is shown by a diagnostic yield in the first endoscopic session of 82% ; further sessions were needed in the rest of patients mainly because of non-removable blood clots . |
| 26 | Pike 's rug was a topic of endless fascination in the First Spiritualist Church . |
| 27 | In 1923 the Conservative Government once again introduced a subsidy scheme , under Neville Chamberlain , and the programme was developed in 1924 by John Wheatley , Minister of Health in the first Labour Government . |
| 28 | Yet he was to run faster , 4min 4.2sec , and run arguably his most significant mile race at the White City in the first post-war match . |
| 29 | STARS from both sporting and artistic worlds — including golfer Tony Jacklin , actress Maggie Smith , and Frank Bruno , the heavyweight boxer — rub shoulders with 22 heroes of the Lockerbie disaster in the first New Year 's Honours of the 1990s , published this morning . |
| 30 | The simplest method of storage is to place a synonym in the first vacant record position following its home address . |