Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [to-vb] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Telecine now gets the direction to run the first piece of 16mm film — the familiar opening graphics sequence together with the sound-on-film theme music . |
| 2 | As time was a most critical factor , No 4 Ferry Pool pilots at Prestwick , who had been advised of the conditions to be expected , were informed of the decision to ferry the first aircraft to Abbotsinch . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , as he began to recover from his operation , Mr Honecker clearly had to face the problem of the embassy refugees and the mass emigration , and the decision to let the first batch go was obviously his . |
| 4 | ‘ As for the Handscomb case , the ratio decidendi was that a sentence of 27 years was so far beyond anything which the judiciary could have recommended as the appropriate tariff , that the decision to postpone the first review until 1991 was one which no reasonable Secretary of State could have reached . |
| 5 | THE contest to represent the first district on the Los Angeles Board of County Supervisors hardly sounds like national news . |
| 6 | Focus on the battle to win the First Division title and the struggle to stay in the Second |
| 7 | There simply has n't been time for the body to clear the first lot before it 's topped up with a second dose of alcohol . |
| 8 | It had the right to annul the first round of voting , if it found sufficient evidence of irregularities , and to organize new elections within two months . |
| 9 | But the stark reality they have to accept , after being crushed by a vibrant Coventry side , is that they are now also-rans in the race to become the first champions of the Premier League . |
| 10 | The person to bring the first challenge was Tim Crook , a radio journalist , whose campaign for more open justice to the European Commission led to the reforms contained in the Criminal Justice Act 1988 . |
| 11 | Anthony Coburn got the commission to write the first story by a notable stroke of good fortune . |
| 12 | aerial will need to be sent in very early in the morning to catch the first edition ! |
| 13 | He was the author of several political histories , President of the Society of Antiquaries , the founder of a prize for a historical essay at Oxford , and shortly before the competition he had persuaded the Government to take the first steps towards setting up the National Portrait Gallery . |
| 14 | At first , as he worked , he had reminisced pleasantly to himself about the smells and the texture of paper and ink , and about the pleasure of opening a new roll of papyrus , laid out as far as there was need on soft leather spread over a wooden writing desk ; then mixing the ink powder with water , and the nervous moment of dipping the brush to make the first signs — to load the brush just so , in order that the ink would be absorbed by the paper before it could run down it . |
| 15 | In the rush to meet the first deadline on hours much of the spirit of the new deal has been lost . |
| 16 | This in turn made the looking harder , but eased the pressure to accept the first thing that came along . |
| 17 | The German totally overwhelmed America 's Michael Chang , 6-2 , 6-3 , 6-2 , in the final to take the first prize of $2m — but , more importantly for him , instil renewed self-confidence that the Wimbledon triumph was no fluke . |
| 18 | Longer follow up and possibly controlled clinical trials are needed to determine if metal stents have the potential to become the first choice treatment for persistent , symptomatic CP associated biliary stricture . |
| 19 | These changes should allow the bureau to release the first summary reports in late spring next year , some six months or so earlier than in 1980 . |
| 20 | A stampede broke out , people pushing past Jezrael to the cockpit to see the first signs of other human beings through the canopy . |
| 21 | An ability to combine flamboyance as an opener with consistent run-scoring through two succesive seasons had , by last July , led elements of the press to strike the first chords of a fateful theme — ‘ Fordham for England ’ was its general , ominous import . |
| 22 | As soon as the group became too large to be controlled by a hyper-active Healy rushing around the country to quell the first signs of dissidence it had to be smashed . |
| 23 | The push to get the first story into the can proved a very tough course indeed , especially for a fledgling Producer used to the more singular ways of commercial Television . |
| 24 | Peter Robinson , Liverpool 's chief executive , said the plan for top English , Scottish and Irish clubs to play a knock-out competition had been the basis for the agreement to reduce the First Division . |