Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [v-ing] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maginn spent the rest of his life as a dedicated missioner in Belfast , where in 1888 he had the pleasure of becoming the first superintendent of the Mission Hall for the Adult Deaf and Dumb which was opened that year by Miss Wilhelmina Frederick . |
| 2 | The honour of making the first speech may go to the best speaker or the best friend , providing your choice keeps as many people as possible happy ! |
| 3 | SUE HOLWELL , the England sweeper , had the honour of scoring the first goal in the Women 's Typhoo National League when it got underway on Saturday . |
| 4 | For the players of Torpedo Moscow will not only be fighting for the honour of becoming the first side to beat Manchester United in a European tie at Old Trafford . |
| 5 | He had been expelled from grammar school at the age of sixteen , manufactured tie-dye T-shirts , and then worked in the refreshment kiosk in the monkey-house at London Zoo , where he had the distinction of organising the first strike ( of staff , not animals ) in the zoo 's history . |
| 6 | He lost , thereby achieving the distinction of becoming the first person in history who could be proved to have failed his degree . |
| 7 | Defender also had the distinction of having the first woman finisher , Mandy Gallow . |
| 8 | However , it is in danger of rendering the first condition for knowledge redundant . |
| 9 | The President had also apparently abandoned his aim of holding the first round of legislative elections on Oct. 25 [ see p. 39086 ] , and agreed to reschedule them for late November ( with a number of opposition parties still calling for a further postponement ) . |
| 10 | On a trumped-up charge of assassinating the first President of Zanzibar , Abeid Karume , Babu was held in detention from 1971 to 1978 . |
| 11 | The facility of incurring the first obligation became a temptation to a second . |
| 12 | In steady conditions this is an entirely fair way to start ; a board starting early through the gate has exactly the same chance of reaching the first mark as the last boat through . |
| 13 | I really think you have a fine chance of winning the first prize ! ’ |
| 14 | With the greatest respect to Rumbelows , and the 76,000 packed inside Wembley , United hope that their success yesterday will soon be dwarfed by the achievement of lifting the First Division title for the first time since 1967 . |
| 15 | That is , the probability of obtaining a word string , W , is given by the probability of finding the first word , w1 , multiplied by the probability of finding the second word , w2 , given w1 etc. , multiplied by the probability of finding the last word , wn , given that all of the previous words were found . |
| 16 | As a way of emphasizing the first charge , TV commercials were run , including clips from old Reagan films embellished with slogans such as ‘ Vote for a real governor , not an acting one ’ , or ‘ Over the years Ronald Reagan has played many roles . |
| 17 | sought orders under section 6(2) directing the solicitors to pay such sums as the court thought fit for the purpose of restoring the investors to the position in which they were before the transactions were entered into and under section 61(1) directing the solicitors to pay such sums as the court thought fit or to take such steps as the court might direct for the purpose of remedying the first defendant 's contravention of sections 47 and 57 . |
| 18 | The Secretary of State was being totally disingenuous because , if the cancellation cost of the fourth boat is the same as the cost of cancelling the first boat would have been , it would be cheaper to build the thing — so saving on the unemployment benefit that would otherwise be payable to the constituents of the hon. Member for Barrow and Furness ( Mr. Franks ) — and not deploy it . |
| 19 | Since the prize was first announced , a panel of distinguished people has been involved in the delicate task of choosing the first recipient . |
| 20 | At the time of writing the first cycle of review and reporting by Oxfordshire 's schools is now virtually complete and a second cycle is planned . |