Example sentences of "the [noun] [noun sg] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | At about 2.15 , someone from the Cardiff side threw the first stone , then the bricks started flying : if they could n't get at each other on land , then they could always fight a missile war and there was plenty of ammo flying around : the workmen who put the fence in had not swept up the chunks of broken concrete around the supports . |
| 2 | Phourni 's Tholos ‘ A ’ had its main chamber robbed in antiquity , but in 1965 the side chamber yielded the first untouched high-status burial of Minoan Crete . |
| 3 | Hambro Countrywide 's shares soared 7p to 36p on Hill 's bullish comments , boosting its market value by nearly 25% , as the stock market savoured the first piece of good news about housing for a long time . |
| 4 | The Boipatong massacre became the first major hurdle which rugby had to overcome and this led to the implementation of All Black and Wallaby tour conditions such a the minute 's silence prior to each test , the display of peace and democracy signed at match venues and in match programmes , the non-playing of national anthems and the removal of any official flying of the South African national flag . |
| 5 | The Derbyshire professional dropped the first frame , but then won five of the next six . |
| 6 | The home team dominated the first half , although both defences looked solid . |
| 7 | Is the hon. Gentleman aware that the Home Office received the first application from Oxfordshire only last week , on 5 December ? |
| 8 | On Feb. 25 the South Korean government announced that the authorization granted to the Daewoo conglomerate to become the first South Korean group to invest directly in the North had been suspended . |
| 9 | The peace treaty ending the First World War remained unsigned by Germany six months after the eleventh hour of the eleventh day in the eleventh month of 1918 . |
| 10 | The England star takes the first step towards his long-awaited comeback in an A-team game this afternoon , five months after suffering a career-threatening Achilles injury . |
| 11 | Does he recall that he said that if the business community took the first step he and the police would give it whatever support and back-up it needed ? |
| 12 | Upon 26 December of that year he used the opportunity of the restoration of the Rump Parliament to issue the first of a succession of twice-weekly news-books . |
| 13 | Although it had held power in several of Canada 's western provinces , however , the Ontario result marked the first occasion upon which the party had won a provincial election east of Manitoba . |
| 14 | The newspaper story marked the first occasion on which the media had given coverage to the longstanding allegation of Bush 's infidelity . |
| 15 | Dundalk clinched the double with victory over Derry in the 1988 FAI Cup Final and the following season the Brandywell club took the first step towards a unique treble with a stunning 4–0 win in the League Cup final at Oriel Park . |
| 16 | In 1970 , the Library Association produced the first set of specific standards for school libraries that Great Britain had ever had , embodying the library 's new name , and including an analysis of implications for finance , planning , staffing and service which was immediately recognized as being incomplete . |
| 17 | THE Merseyside Partnership holds the first of three Corporate Partnership Seminars at its offices in the Cunard Building today as it continues its work of promoting the region . |
| 18 | The pocket rocket became the first two-year-old for 36 years to land the Nunthorpe and the first two-year-old filly ever to lift this speedsters prize . |
| 19 | More significantly , the State Department evinced the first sign of active hostility to Cuba by pressurising the British government into rejecting a Cuban order for military helicopters . |
| 20 | The space shuttle launched the first of these last week ( see below ) . |
| 21 | The Boer War brought the first murmurs of coalitionism , a sense of national crisis brought the first attempt to form a coalition , and the advent of the First World War made it a practical possibility . |
| 22 | As the dawn patrol began the first of their two qualifying rounds from which 64 players will move into the match play stage the only sound to be heard was the twittering of larks overhead . |
| 23 | The choirs interpreter says the first part of the tour was fraught with problems . |
| 24 | At its December meeting the SCOTVEC Board approved the first SVQ : The Preliminary Certificate in Agriculture , which comprised a group of National Certificate Modules . |
| 25 | The ruler line indicates the first line indent by a break mark , ' I ‘ , at the 0.5″ point . |
| 26 | Like many sailors before us our soggy footsteps led up the little hill to the Café Sport to sink the first beer in many days . |
| 27 | Moomintroll and the Snork Maiden feel the first flutterings of love and , for once , we are offered a complete family ( the Victorian habit of removing one , or both , parents was a convention that survived into Ransome 's time ) . |
| 28 | The Appeal Court labelled the first trial a ‘ costly disaster ’ never to be repeated ; as a result , the SFO has abandoned the second one . |
| 29 | The pack leader grabbed the first policeman from behind and wrestled him to the ground , knocking his revolver from his grip . |