Example sentences of "and [noun prp] [prep] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oxford and Swindon in the first clash of '93 . |
| 2 | King Hussein visited Iceland , Canada , the USA , France and Germany during the first half of March . |
| 3 | To sit in a plush cinema with Anna , Mama and Konstantin on the first night , watching the titles unroll ! |
| 4 | The festival organisers , the local CAMRA branch and Tynemouth Round Table , planned to open from 11am to 10.30pm on Friday and Saturday in the first week of September but were forced to close at 9pm instead . |
| 5 | Their successors will be in action at Desertmartin on Friday and Saturday in the first youth Division British Championship event to be held here . |
| 6 | As more cars came , they took over the Fleetwood service , until on 10 March 1953 , there was a complete service by Coronations between Starr Gate and Fleetwood for the first time . |
| 7 | Tan heard Bach and Beethoven for the first time , and ‘ totally forgot about myself ’ . |
| 8 | Talks took place between China and Taiwan for the first time since the Communists took control of China in 1949 and the former Nationalist government fled to Taiwan . |
| 9 | British Commander-in-Chief in France and Flanders during the First World War . |
| 10 | It is the Spirit who leads the Antioch church to send out Saul and Barnabas on the first missionary journey ( 13:2,4 ) which enabled them to return and report that , ‘ The Lord has opened the door of faith to the Gentiles ’ ( 14:27 ) . |
| 11 | The collapse of the ceasefire agreement reached in Gbadolite ( Zaire ) in June 1989 [ see p. 36726 ] was followed by a period of intense fighting between the MPLA-PT government and UNITA in the first half of 1990 , centred on the battle for control of Mavinga , a strategic UNITA base near its Jamba headquarters in the south-east of the country . |
| 12 | The catalogue essays include : ‘ Painting in Milan and Venice in the first half of the century ’ ; ‘ Aspects of collecting in nineteenth-century Naples : the portfolios ( cartiere ) of Giacinto Gigante ’ ; ‘ Diego Martelli , the Macchiaioli , and the Impressionists ’ ; and ‘ Art in Rome , the capital of Italy ’ , by a team of Italian scholars . |
| 13 | There are perhaps 11,000 of them in the UK today and twice that number worldwide : they were exported to countries such as the USA ( where they have an enthusiastic following ) , Canada and Australia before the First World War and are also in the USSR , the Falkland Islands , Sweden and Germany . |
| 14 | The sight of Fred and Daisy after the first night added to his nerve , and he scooped the skeletal Peaseblossom out of a dressing-room full of tulle to take her out to dinner with them . |
| 15 | At the moment , most attention is focused on the island of Sardinia , where in Caliari , England will play Ireland , Holland and Egypt in the first round . |
| 16 | Partly as a result of this lobbying , the British new towns programme was launched in 1946 , with towns like Harlow and Stevenage in the first batch . |
| 17 | An instance is provided by the civil war between Pompey and Caesar in the first century BC , when hoarding was so prevalent that it caused a crisis of liquidity . |
| 18 | 1981 The famous kiss on the balcony of Buckingham Palace on their wedding day showed Charles and Diana in the first flush of romance . |
| 19 | There was a gala reception attended by the Mayor and City Council , with provincial and federal members of government and many other leading personalities , all drinking toasts in champagne to MGM and Shakespeare before the first showing of the film . |
| 20 | The scheme , if adopted , would allow the government to set " statutory water quality objectives " for all inland and coastal waters in England and Wales for the first time . |
| 21 | Applications for relaxation of those parts of the Building Regulations dealing with fire precautions are made in England and Wales in the first instance to the Local Authority . |
| 22 | We propose to introduce the attainment targets and programmes of study for all pupils in England and Wales in the first year of each of key stages 2 and 3 in autumn 1990 , and of key stage 4 in autumn 1992 . |
| 23 | Both sides had injury problems during the series , West Indies missing Logie and Ambrose from the first Test , Richards and Marshall from the second , Best , Marshall and Moseley from the fourth . |