Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [prep] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An important headstart for Swindon in the first leg of the play offs . |
| 2 | There was one , there was one last comment that I missed out there that it was the erm the permission to proceed with the product recommendations , you were wanting to proceed with recommendations but you had n't got the commitment off Steven in the first place so you were suggestion recommendations and what ! |
| 3 | King Fahd of Saudi Arabia visited Baghdad at the end of March for the first visit by a Saudi monarch since Iraq 's Baathist revolution of 1968 . |
| 4 | Sinatra stormed off of the set of Carousel on the first day of shooting because it was to be shot in both the new CinemaScope 55 format and the standard ‘ flat ’ ratio , meaning everything had to be shot twice . |
| 5 | And yesterday it emerged that Britain 's inflation rate of 4.1pc had fallen below that of Germany for the first time in 25 years . |
| 6 | Butter is in the supermarkets of Timisoara for the first time since March last year . |
| 7 | Daughter of King Jerome , former ruler of Westphalia during the First Empire , Mathilde had eventually married Count Anatole Demidov , a Russian multi-millionaire whose morals and behaviour were such ( he frequently beat her ) that she had been separated from him . |
| 8 | Still no localised versions of UnixWare until the first quarter of next year . |
| 9 | LAST autumn , the Bank was back on television in most of Scotland for the first time in more than two years with a campaign of three commercials . |
| 10 | Here he 'd smelt the air of England for the first time , the crisp October air ; here he 'd fed first , drunk first ; first had cause for laughter , and later , for tears . |
| 11 | In his response , the General Secretary said ‘ Chairman and Delegates , before I move the IBOA motion , I would like to take this opportunity to place on record the debt owed by this Association to the Trade Union Movement arising from the events in the Republic of Ireland in the first half of 1992 . |
| 12 | Hemel Royals .. 60 Reykjavik ..... 64 ( Reykjavik win 118-105 on agg ) KODAK HEMEL ROYALS followed Manchester Giants out of European competition last night when they lost to Reykjavik of Iceland in the first round of the Korac Cup , writes Duncan Hooper . |
| 13 | Oh well just south of Caernarvon on the first section erm between Caernarvon and ? |
| 14 | OSF also confirmed version 1.2 of OSF/1 , released last month , is X/Open Co Ltd XPG4-compliant and says it plans to introduce a full-featured Mach microkernel version of OSF/1 in the first quarter of 1994 . |
| 15 | Dicey felt able to boil the British constitution down to " one essential principle " : " obedience by all persons to the deliberately expressed will of the House of Commons in the first instance and ultimately to the will of the nation as expressed through Parliament . " |
| 16 | The man is dressed in the elegant black and white of Cambridge before the First World War . |
| 17 | There were violent clashes with police near the Mediterranean port of Damietta after the first round . |
| 18 | Azumah Nelson of Ghana had earlier retained his WBC featherweight title when he fought a draw with Texan Jesse James Leija , and Californian Terry Norris stopped Joe Gatti of Canada in the first round to retain the WBC super welterweight title . |
| 19 | Azumah Nelson of Ghana had earlier retained his WBC featherweight title when he fought a draw with Texan Jesse James Leija , and Californian Terry Norris stopped Joe Gatti of Canada in the first round to retain the WBC super welterweight title . |
| 20 | A study of Cheshire in the first quarter of the fifteenth century , however , shows how the social ties of the gentry class were rooted in the locality . |
| 21 | The scenes between Hilarion , Giselle , Albrecht and Bathilde are reminiscent of the scenes that develop Tybalt 's hatred of Romeo from the first fight between Montague and Capulet to his discovery of Romeo with Juliet after their first meeting at the ball , and finally to the fight that ends in Tybalt 's death . |
| 22 | Much of the learning and practice of the Egyptians was absorbed by Greek physicians , one of the best known of whom is Dioscorides , an army doctor who lived during the time of Nero in the first century AD . |
| 23 | On that final day there will be many like that , little earlier on in the book of Titus in the first chapter Paul says in verse sixteen they profess to no God , but by their deed they deny him |
| 24 | His re-creation — like the creating of Adam on the first day — had taken a little time . |
| 25 | Jimmy Connors after being knocked out of Wimbledon in the first round I 'VE spent time with her and she is everything that a man could want . |
| 26 | CHINA : Amnesty International was publicly recognised by a senior government official in the People 's Republic of China for the first time last year , in connection with the commutation of the death sentence of Lobsang Tenzin , a Tibetan student accused of the murder of a Chinese policeman . |
| 27 | For example , Luke has only one story outside of Galilee in the first section of his Gospel ( the healing of Legion ( Luke 8:26–39 ) , whereas Matthew and Mark record a more extensive ministry in Gentile country ( Matt. |
| 28 | On the other hand , there were people like Spaak and the Italian premier , Alcide de Gasperi , who were prepared to accept things for what they were , to see the Council of Europe as a first step in the right direction , not an end — and a direction which they believed to be merely inevitable . |
| 29 | The most dramatic and explosive of these changes was the devastating impact upon the social and political fabric of Europe of the First World War . |
| 30 | The government confirmed on May 13 that it had landed a contingent of troops on the southern tip of Bougainville for the first time since 1990 , when it had withdrawn its forces from the island in the face of a protracted secessionist guerrilla war conducted by the Bougainville Revolutionary Army ( BRA ) . |