Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [prep] [art] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Air travel grew rapidly : the first Pan Am passenger flight was on 18 January 1928 , although the first commercial passenger flights had been in German Zeppelins before the First World War , and French and British airlines had begun by the early 1920s . |
| 2 | Modigliani left Nice for nearby Cagnes in the first half of April . |
| 3 | Robson is now even more determined to assist United in the overriding ambition of bringing the League title to Old Trafford for the first time in 25 years . |
| 4 | When Bukharin , in his speech to the Sixth Congress , emphasised that the Latin American Communist parties ‘ had an important role to play in the development of national and agrarian revolutions ’ , Brazilian delegate Fernando Lacerna somewhat tartly pointed out that a Communist movement had existed in Latin America since 1920 but it was only in 1928 that ’ the Communist International [ had ] shown its interest in Latin America for the first time ’ ( La Correspondance Internationale ( organ of the Communist International ) , 1928 , in Alba : 1964 , p. 188 ) . |
| 5 | The army is mindful of its prestige , and the strength of public feeling was shown by the huge turn-out ( over 300,000 people ) for an anti-military rally in central Moscow on the first Sunday after the killings in Vilnius . |
| 6 | According to the posters outside , the winter season would open the following Wednesday with the first performance of a new work , Leonore , by Ludwig van Beethoven . |
| 7 | The British Army aid convoy has arrived safely in Central Bosnia with the first supplies in the region for a month . |
| 8 | Although a survey of Russia 's dealings with central Asia in the first half of the nineteenth century concludes that " Bukhara , Khiva , and Kokand were not primary objects of interest " , the work as a whole provides massive evidence for the view that only the problem of traversing Kazakhstan prevented the khanates from coming to the top of the imperial agenda . |
| 9 | ‘ My whinge is being charged 10 for being overdrawn with National Giro for the first time ever and by only 3.11 — and even though they were in possession of cheques for 36.53 which they knew would be honoured . ’ |
| 10 | JOHN CALE , avant-garde elder statesman and Velvet Underground founder member , whose live panto , guitar and vocals album ‘ Fragments Of A Rain Season ’ is out now on Hannibal Records , plays in his native Wales for the first time in almost a decade as part of his autumn tour , visiting . |
| 11 | Kohl , in eastern Germany for the first time since the December 1990 general election , was jeered and pelted with eggs by several hundred protesters on April 7 in Erfurt ( where enthusiastic crowds of over 100,000 had greeted him on his last visit in February 1990 — see p. 37260 ) . |
| 12 | Doctors have never found it easy to go along with reform and were dragged , kicking and screaming , into the Bevan-style NHS in the first place . |
| 13 | As pesticide concentrations in the environment fall , birds of prey are returning to areas of eastern England for the first time in decades . |
| 14 | Tsarist Russia before the First World War held that position , earning a third of its foreign exchange from grain sales . |
| 15 | An impressive demonstration of this was given at Great Casterton in the first section across the town rampart in 1950 ( Corder , 1951 ) , excavated with meticulous care as part of a training school ; every sherd was collected and recorded , totalling in all about 100 from the bank . |
| 16 | The ECE report indicated virtual stagnation in the total volume of exports from the Soviet Union and eastern Europe in the first half of 1989 owing to absolute declines in intra-COMECON trade and COMECON trade with developing countries . |
| 17 | Franco had allowed anti-French nationalism to flourish in Spanish Morocco in the first half of the 1950s , naïvely and carelessly confident that pressure for independence would not be a problem in the Spanish protectorate . |
| 18 | The defeat of Wilhelmine Germany in the first world war led to the setting up of the Weimar Republic in 1919 , a constitutional settlement many believe was doomed . |
| 19 | Its manifestation , in neutral Switzerland during the First World War , rapidly spread through post-war Europe as a declaration of personal freedom . |
| 20 | The best conjecture , backtracking the path of this cloud , is that it originated from an unobserved eruption either in Zaire in the middle of January or in the northern Pacific during the first half of January 1982 . |
| 21 | Indirect Rule with capital letters was born in Northern Nigeria in the first decade of the twentieth century , as a result of Sir Frederick Lugard 's compulsion to justify and elaborate in writing his decision to administer the newly conquered Fulani emirates by installing a British Resident at each of the emirate courts . |
| 22 | This , obviously , is the place from which to inspect the western Pyrenees for a first time or , given the summary quality of the prospect , from which to take leave of them before driving north . |