Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] [art] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The motion , tabled when the government invoked a technical measure to pass the first reading of the 1993 budget without a division , failed when the Communist Party ( PCF ) deputies once again refused to back it , saying that they would not vote with the right . |
| 2 | With very few exceptions , judges are required to be selected from amongst practising barristers and it is difficult for anyone without a private income to survive the first years of practice . |
| 3 | It was presented , to Darlington Harrier Andy Campbell , when the race was established as an open event in 1904 and given to Duncan McLeod-Wright to keep when the Scottish runner became the first man to win three times , in 1929 . |
| 4 | To the passengers in the skies over the Atlantic drinking free champagne to celebrate the first anniversary of Virgin Atlantic , oblivious to all the dramas which had unfolded to keep them airborne , it probably would have seemed a bargain . |
| 5 | All right then , just this once , and only because Strawberry Story sound like Andrea from the Darling Buds singing the first Mary Chain album . |
| 6 | All right then , just this once , and only because Strawberry Story sound like Andrea from the Darling Buds singing the first Mary Chain album . |
| 7 | But Kevin Keegan 's team are still 12 points in front and their good-looking football dominated the first half and the last 20 minutes . |
| 8 | As the conflict between Milosevic and the FRY intensified [ see below ] , the Serbian delegation boycotted the first meeting in Zagreb on Oct. 12 of the committee set up under the Sept. 30 agreement to normalize relations between Croatia and the FRY . |
| 9 | Alan Davies ' men had good reason for jubilation as a spirited fight-back earned a first Championship win since 1989 . |
| 10 | Fittingly the local-born lad took the first spot kick which completed the first leg of what could see the city 's two clubs meet for the first time in the last four . |
| 11 | Only 12 per cent of British managers have a first degree . |
| 12 | The hon. Gentleman quoted the first paragraph of AMMA 's report . |
| 13 | I am not surprised that the right hon. Gentleman avoided the first point , because the report to which my hon. Friend the Member for Poole ( Mr. Ward ) referred produced the following answer within the Labour party : ’ Some argue it will highlight one of our weaker points ’ . |
| 14 | The French champions became the first club to hit six goals since the semi-final group system was introduced last season . |
| 15 | This currently funded project represents the first stage of this research . |
| 16 | Early work on primate social systems yielded the first model of their social evolution in the mid-1960s . |
| 17 | That could be bad news for any theoretical widow suing a first aider who had left her husband to die while scouting around for a telephone . |
| 18 | The first aid societies stand by their advice and believe that there is sufficient medical evidence to justify their statements in the unlikely event of a ‘ theoretical widow suing a first aider . ’ |
| 19 | Khaled Nezzar became the first Defence Minister of Cabinet status appointed in 25 years . |
| 20 | Desert Storm , with its thousands of sorties a day , could have been planned without computers ( the Schlieffen plan launched the first world war with sweat and brainpower , little more ) ; but computers allow the plans to be fine-tuned and to be altered quickly . |
| 21 | When you reach a signpost saying White Creek and Arnside , cross the broken wall , turn left and soon you emerge onto a grassy clearing giving a first class view onto the sands — and no wood ants ! |
| 22 | Early viewers studied the first TV weather-chart in November 1936 . |
| 23 | WITH a meaningless tournament offering a first prize of $2 million , tennis finally made the grade as a cuckoo 's nest this week . |
| 24 | 95% of male names have a first syllable which is strongly stressed , whereas only 7% of female names show this pattern . |
| 25 | ‘ However , it does not alter our stated objective to provide a first rate competitive alternative service to the tunnel , ’ said a spokeswoman . |
| 26 | Nadia , Lynlea , and three other Canadian pupils formed the first group of exchangers , and three St Mary 's pupils are expected to board and study at Collingwood School later this year . |
| 27 | The authors of this perfervid , crowded adventure use the first person device to plot the course of Kemp 's feelings concurrently with the bold actions in which he is conventionally heroic . |
| 28 | In May 1960 the EEC began to look at ways of liberalising the movement of capital , and the following year issued the first regulations governing the existence of cartels . |
| 29 | Chapman had put the Town on a firm footing that would see them to a third championship the following year to become the first club to win the title three years in succession ; and two years after that they were runners-up . |
| 30 | Beside it , a large window showed the first view that Tug had seen for five days . |