Example sentences of "the [noun] [adv] [art] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The money there the first year was £6 a year ; the next was £8 ; and the third year when I come away it was £12 . |
| 2 | That chapter ends with the calming of the storm where the first hint of ‘ failure ’ on the part of the disciples is found . |
| 3 | Everything goes smoothly , the syndicate collecting their financial reward , until one day a man appears in the gallery where the first exhibition was held claiming to be Hopkin . |
| 4 | It has a strange history and to understand it it is necessary to turn the clock back eight thousand years , to the moment when the first cats were being domesticated in the Middle East . |
| 5 | To some extent , it was a repetition of the atmosphere early in the war when the first president , Bani Sadr , was at odds with many other senior figures and the clergy in general . |
| 6 | Tonight we camped at the site where the first Smith and Miranda expedition ended . |
| 7 | If we assume that the customer has paid for the goods then the first entries would have been to increase the bank by £600 and include in the profit and 1088 account sales of £600 . |
| 8 | Train spotting had hardly become an attraction for the boys of the day when the first Easter excursion thundered through Balcombe Tunnel en route to Brighton . |
| 9 | Take , for instance , the argument about a first cause . |
| 10 | I must admit when I when I came in the door there the first thing I noticed was the peat smell . |
| 11 | since I am one of those people who do something the wrong way round , if there is the slightest opportunity , I also inserted the needle incorrectly the first time only spotting my mistake when I read on and found that I could not follow the next instruction if my needle was at the back of the work . |
| 12 | Erm example there of T. You 'll recognize the T. Now the first thing I should remind you is of course that to recognize anything we must have something to compare it against . |
| 13 | The judge found that the police had been engaged in a trick or deceit , had not acted as agents provocateurs or incited crime , had provided no market which would not have been available elsewhere , and had had grounds to suspect that each appellant had committed an offence by the time when the first sale by him was transacted , but that he had not been cautioned . |