Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun sg] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | With very few exceptions , judges are required to be selected from amongst practising barristers and it is difficult for anyone without a private income to survive the first years of practice . |
| 2 | A private operator won the first five franchises , but after that , the state company S J won all but one of the remaining sixteen . |
| 3 | The motion , tabled when the government invoked a technical measure to pass the first reading of the 1993 budget without a division , failed when the Communist Party ( PCF ) deputies once again refused to back it , saying that they would not vote with the right . |
| 4 | Mr Parsons looked down at me at last , and I could see a different embarrassment replacing the first as he met my ironic eye . |
| 5 | Crown counsel informed defence counsel of an inconsistency between the sister 's testimony and her first statement without showing him that statement or revealing that she had made a second statement confirming the first statement in that respect . |
| 6 | The Princess , dressed simply in a white blouse and dark skirt , was draped with crimson flower garlands as she flew over Mount Everest in a helicopter , 40 years after a British-sponsored expedition became the first to reach the summit of the world 's highest mountain.As she flew past the snowy peak a relative of a Nepalese climber who accompanied Sir Edmund Hillary up Everest in 1953 was leading a seven-member Australian team up the mountain.Although the Princess did not see any climbers she told fellow passengers aboard her Super Puma helicopter that she had a wonderful time seeing the mountain through clear skies . |
| 7 | Beside it , a large window showed the first view that Tug had seen for five days . |
| 8 | Sitting back to enjoy the mid-morning sun the bobbin on the rod with corn on started jumping up to the butt and a quick strike saw the first fish of the session go screaming off up the lake . |
| 9 | After the first ascent by a six-year-old schoolgirl comes the first junkie-ascent of Europe 's biggest ( not counting Eastern interlopers ) . |
| 10 | It is a good touch to have the first two cards the ones your ‘ opponent ’ turned over . |
| 11 | A 43-year-old man underwent the first heart transplant operation at the London Hospital , Whitechapel . |
| 12 | The idea is not new — a Hungarian engineer designed the first photocomposing machine in 1894 — but its widespread adoption depended on the computer to select characters at high speed from an optical storage disc . |
| 13 | A GROUP of Darlington nuns have started a 35-day journey to establish the first multi-racial Carmelite convent in the southern African country of Bophuthatswana . |
| 14 | Ted and I discovered her once in the ripped-out kitchen running through a symphony of his noises like a proud mother reproducing the first words of a child . |
| 15 | A living fossil gives the first interview in her career , and describes life as it was when she first roamed the Earth |
| 16 | A military accident stationed the first liberal parliament ( 1810 ) in Cadiz , the only town with a liberal society , a large French colony , a daily performance at the French theatre , a social life devoid of aristocratic prejudice , and where the test of status , even for nobles ( who invested in trade ) , was wealth . |
| 17 | The latter form is becoming extremely popular these days , a recent event witnessing the first 100 plus participants in a sponsored abseil over Malham Cove . |
| 18 | For amplification of genomic DNA , the α AChR gene 's P3A/P4 region ( 6 ) was used with a forward primer containing the first 21 bases of exon P3A , 5'GGG.AAT.TCG.ACA.TGG.TAG.ATC.TGC.CAC 3' ( position 235–256 ) and the reverse primer containing 22 bases of exon P4 , 5' AAA.GCT.TCC.ATT.TTA.GGT.TGT . |
| 19 | The West Country trainer and champion jockey Peter Scudamore got off to a flying start winning the first three races with odds-on shots Mohana , Slavi and Skipping Tim . |
| 20 | It 's high time the insurance companies allowed buyers to take out a special policy to cover the first month in a new home . |
| 21 | However , with the recent completion of the first year of the Chartered Accountants Joint Ethics Committee ( CAJEC ) , this is an appropriate time to consider the first of those three elements — the need for continuing debate inside and outside the profession . |
| 22 | Omani sailors gained fame for their navigational skills and indeed an Omani pilot guided the first Portuguese ships on the earliest European discovery of the trade routes to the East . |
| 23 | He opens with a history of homebuilts dating from Sir George Cayley ( who would have approved the sage advice to get an experienced hand to make the first test flight of your creation , though in his case the unfortunate man was more adept at handling a coach-and-four than a flying machine ) and proceeds through the Flying Flea era to the post-war rebirth in France and the USA , thence to Rutan and the foam/fibreglass revolution , and on to the 1980s emergence of IFR-capable alabaster-smooth hot-rod kitplanes that will blow the socks off anything Vero Beach and Wichita are ( or more accurately are n't ) building . |