Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Masters champion Couples coasted to a 66 while Love , the US No 2 , chipped in with a 68 for the Americans to set the first round pace with a combined 10 under par total of 134 . |
| 2 | There simply has n't been time for the body to clear the first lot before it 's topped up with a second dose of alcohol . |
| 3 | Peter Robinson , Liverpool 's chief executive , said the plan for top English , Scottish and Irish clubs to play a knock-out competition had been the basis for the agreement to reduce the First Division . |
| 4 | The visiting players have been in England for some days , and all four are becoming understandable twitchy as the time to make the first moves approaches . |
| 5 | Personally , I will never forget the sight of Yannick Noah , the French Davis Cup captain , leaping almost four feet off the ground to acclaim the first and the seemingly impossible French victory in the Davis Cup since the ‘ Three Musketeers ’ carried it off in the thirties . |
| 6 | Michel Laclotte 's farewell show as director of the Louvre includes the first sight of its eight newly cleaned Titians |
| 7 | An ability to combine flamboyance as an opener with consistent run-scoring through two succesive seasons had , by last July , led elements of the press to strike the first chords of a fateful theme — ‘ Fordham for England ’ was its general , ominous import . |
| 8 | Whilst it is true that disadvantages arise from different aspects of the same dispute being adjudicated upon by different courts , it must be pointed out , on the one hand , that a plaintiff is always entitled to bring his action in its entirety before the courts for the domicile of the defendant and , on the other , that article 22 of the Convention allows the first court seised , in certain circumstances , to hear the case in its entirety provided that there is a connection between the actions brought before the different courts . |
| 9 | Article 1 of the Convention states the first of these aims . |
| 10 | As time was a most critical factor , No 4 Ferry Pool pilots at Prestwick , who had been advised of the conditions to be expected , were informed of the decision to ferry the first aircraft to Abbotsinch . |
| 11 | The foundation of the ECSC marks the first significant step towards European union that went beyond being merely consultative and intergovernmental in character . |
| 12 | Many of the families spent the first night huddled together in the open but tradition maintains that no one suffered as much as a common cold . |
| 13 | It would be sad if ill-health were to deprive him of the chance to become the first democratically-elected president of South Africa . |
| 14 | In his Autumn Statement ( p 124 ) , the Chancellor of the Exchequer raised the first year capital allowance for plant and machinery ( excluding cars ) to 40% for 12 months from 1 November 1992 and introduced an initial allowance of 20% for industrial and agricultural buildings where contracts are placed before 31 October 1993 and they are brought into use before the end of 1994 . |
| 15 | Blanche , smiling blandly so as to appear co-operative , was ushered over to a corner of the room to record the first of a series of television interviews . |
| 16 | Captain Bligh of the Bounty took the first apples to Australia ; Jan van Riebeeck , the founder of Cape Settlement , took them to South Africa and the Pilgrim Fathers who boarded the Mayflower carried them to America . |
| 17 | Shortly after the breakfast party , perhaps the same evening , perhaps the next morning , the bridegroom 's mother would make her way to the home of the bride carrying the first load of treasure . |
| 18 | Internal evidence in regard to such details as the use of motor cars or the social idiom and manners of the characters suggests the first two decades of our century but the wise reader will accept a certain anonymity as an integral part of the fiction . |
| 19 | Start by laying the weaving yarn over a small amount of needles , then gradually increase the amount of weaving to the centre front before decreasing the length of the rows to match the first half . |
| 20 | The completion of the draft marked the first substantive development on the issue , under negotiation by the 39 participating countries since 1968 . |
| 21 | The making of the images becomes the first part of the drama , in which ( for example ) the work is inspected by the teacher in role as new Mayor , who commissions a statue to commemorate the return of the children of Hamelin ! |
| 22 | In the boutique near the admin bulding the first person they saw was Mrs Richards . |
| 23 | During a demonstration to mark the first anniversary of the group 's move to its new location , 300 people , including over 160 police officers , were injured in battles between 1,400 police and at least 7,000 demonstrators . |
| 24 | Shooter , described in court as a salesman , was caught after a plain-clothes police officer posed as a courier taking the first of the blackmail money to a pick-up point at Edinburgh Airport . |
| 25 | A £13 million scheme to create an imaginative river-front office development in York gained its first ground in March when the Lord Mayor of York , Councillor Bernard Bell climbed aboard a JCB to cut the first sod . |
| 26 | During his time with the company started the first CPM 7000 interswitch press in the country and Preston workmates were not sure whether it was a splash of fat or a tear on 's cheek when it had to be replaced by the new Palladin 1600 . |
| 27 | The book has been rewritten in consultation with the teachers using the first draft . |
| 28 | A peninsula reaching into the lake gives the first sight of Roman-shorn , which today has spilled into the landscape behind , and along the gentle curve of a bay . |
| 29 | Last to putt , Treleaven sent his 14-footer into the cup to become the first Hampshire-born player to win the Salver and the first home county champion since Ian Gray in 1982 . |
| 30 | Into the Blue won the first ever W H Smith thumping good read award , so maybe at last this compelling writer will get the recognition he so deserves . |