Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [coord] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Me and all my friends ended up in this cult and the first thing this guy said we had to do was turn all of our friendships against each other so that we could n't trust anybody . |
| 2 | To those who , like me , find it difficult to relate the education of the young child to a future market place and to the , as yet unknown , technological changes which the last decade of this century and the first decade of the next will bring , the debate is somewhat arid . |
| 3 | It was the fourth rise in German interest rates this year and the first time for several years that they have risen by a full percentage point . |
| 4 | Access to special procedure material can only be obtained by virtue of a warrant issued by a circuit judge who can issue such a warrant either where , prior to the Act , there would have been access to such material and the first set of access conditions apply or where the judge has reasonable grounds to believe ( i ) a serious arrestable offence has been committed . |
| 5 | She was the first Labour candidate to be returned for that constituency and the first woman MP for a Liverpool seat . |
| 6 | They have both used the same quotation but the first writer takes it wholesale . |