Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [verb] [art] first [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The study draws together the results of five years ' work by the investigator and the findings of the ESRC 's extensive research programme in this field to provide the first comprehensive account of central-local relationships in the UK for nearly twenty years . |
2 | Simons claims that this work provides the first reliable description of how an animal virus enters the cell and initiates infection . |
3 | This announcement represented the first explicit US endorsement of an offensive military option . |
4 | This report provides the first direct evidence for expression of P3A + variant mRNA in human thymus . |
5 | Like any other youth , I was thrilled by the annual visits of the big circus , and when the Al G. Barnes Circus came to town I paid my own way in to the ‘ show ’ and sat up that night writing the first big-top review for the Times-Herald , which Fred Workman accepted with alacrity . |
6 | These sculptures must date from the middle or later seventh century , and from much the same time come the first carved fragments plausibly associated with a Doric temple . |