Example sentences of "[noun pl] [subord] the first [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oppenheimer himself was refused security clearance in December 1953 , four months after the first Russian H-bomb was exploded . |
| 2 | In October 1930 , ten months before the first National Government was formed , Sir Arthur Balfour , an industrialist and a member of the Economic Advisory Council , wrote to Ramsay MacDonald , saying that he had been forced to the conclusion : That our industrial and commercial economic situation is steadily deteriorating and if this continues , in a few months time , we shall be on the verge of a debacle . |
| 3 | It was only 50 years since the first white settlement had been established at Port Jackson , and , although some semblance of order and ‘ civilisation ’ existed in the larger towns like Sydney , many of the outposts were still dangerous places to visit . |
| 4 | She was hard to miss , even among such a handpicked collection of fruitcakes as the First Spiritualist Church . |
| 5 | Indeed one could plot the spread of radioactive strontium and caesium throughout the world by analysing bone tissue from the collections gained by natural history museums since the first nuclear explosion . |
| 6 | Actually it was only a matter of perhaps fifty seconds before the first convulsive rattle of protest shook his ribs , and then she felt the first thread of breath drawn out long and fine under her coaxing fingers as she sat back from him . |
| 7 | From Lesley Wittle to Zeebrugge , it has always been a matter of hours before the first risqué punchline filters in . |