Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] the first [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , shortly afterwards the first meeting of a newly formed all-party Supreme National Council broke up in disarray after the members had failed to reach agreement on any issue . |
| 2 | He drop-kicked the telegram away , went out for a drink and turned up months later on the first day of filming amiable as an old soldier . |
| 3 | Probably not the first choice of the new Labour arts minister . |
| 4 | Ahead of the voting 110 of the Supreme Soviet 's 450 deputies — members of the radical Democratic Bloc uniting the parliamentary groups from the nationalist Rukh organization , the Ukrainian Language Society and the new Republican Party ( founded on April 30 ) — had walked out of the chamber in protest at Ivashko 's candidacy , on the grounds that he was also currently the first secretary of the Ukrainian Communist Party ( CP ) , and that the acting Speaker of the chamber had refused to read out a statement by the Democratic Bloc to the effect that combining state and party posts in this way was impermissible . |
| 5 | Almost immediately the first breath of cooler air reached them . |