Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | But while the latter was hobnobbing with John Stuart Mill and publishing treatises on English grammar , the former was modifying a system of synchronised electric clocks to make the first fax machine . |
| 3 | During the following two months came the first reports of Baghdad 's retaliation at the frontier town of Halabjah , in PUK territory , where aircraft were said to have dropped bombs containing poison gas . |
| 4 | But they gave opportunities for the advancement of town planning , facilitating consultancy work and ( so ably fostered by Pepler ) encouraging individual local authorities to take the first steps in scheme preparation in their own areas . |
| 5 | In Kirghizia on April 10 and Tadjikistan on April 12 the newly elected republican Supreme Soviets elected the first secretaries of their republican Communist Parties ( CP ) , respectively Absamat Masaliyev and Kakhar Makhkamov , to the post of Chairman ( i.e. President of the republic ) . |
| 6 | On Feb. 20 the Ukrainian Supreme Soviet approved the first draft of a bill to alter the administrative system . |
| 7 | IRISH International showjumpers dominated the first three places in the Silk Cut Speed Derby at Hickstead in Sussex yesterday . |
| 8 | ( The February election had delayed the Diet 's consideration of the budget , and had forced the government to adopt interim budgetary measures covering the first two months of the fiscal year . ) |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | These new streamlined creatures became the first fish and soon underwent a further important change when they began to develop a movable jaw , paving the way for the Devonian period — the ‘ Age of Fishes ’ . |
| 11 | A 16-bit computer has two instruction formats : Two schemes are possible for allocating bit patterns to operations : ( a ) One 4-bit pattern ( say 1111 ) in the 4 most-significant bits of an instruction word indicates the second format , while all other 4-bit patterns represent the first format . |
| 12 | A searcher reaches the second level of understanding when he is satisfied that Christianity answers the first of these questions . |
| 13 | Pressplan Travel has arranged a special inclusive tour to cover the first three days of the fair . |
| 14 | Nothing else was known of Everest until the Alpine Club and the Royal Geographical Society organised the first reconnaissance expedition in 1921 . |