Example sentences of "to [noun sg] [prep] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brigit , 45 , will be seen in the first commercial this week playing a mum worried about her daughter going to university for the first time . |
| 2 | In a general election on July 19 , 1987 [ see pp. 35388-90 ] , the PSD , which under Cavaco Silva had been ruling as a minority administration , was returned to parliament as the first government since 1974 to command an absolute majority . |
| 3 | Chairman , if I could just er , erm , some words that are n't included in this pa paper , I understand that the Deregulation Bill is published on the eighteenth erm , and presented to Parliament for the first reading , erm , it 's still far from clear what 's going to be said in it , but erm , it 's still widely expected that in fact , on major contentious issues will in fact be the suggestion that sections of Acts of Parliament will , could be revealed by ministerial order rather than go through the parliamentary process again . |
| 4 | It was probably in consequence of this great accession of landed wealth that Holland was summoned to Parliament for the first time in July 1314 . |
| 5 | Some black children may have had their first experience of Jamaican Creole from reggae lyrics , while others may have been attracted to Creole for the first time because of the music . |
| 6 | In this machine , some of the work Unisys has been carrying out with academic partners such as Caltec , JPL and with French microkernel specialists Chorus Systemes , will come to light for the first time . |
| 7 | I recently returned to Bali for the first time since my Los Angeles house burned down . |
| 8 | I would have gone for something a little snappier : ‘ A mad cow with a handbag , ’ comes to mind as a first attempt . |
| 9 | ‘ Sure my music is techno-based , ’ says the breathy jazz-house diva from Glasgow , ‘ but the house and rave scenes owed much to jazz in the first place . ’ |
| 10 | There is almost a tinge of predestination in footballers ' reflections on how they came to sport in the first place . |
| 11 | True , it might be a genuine enquiry , but it could be Nigel Steen relating him to Jacqui for the first time . |
| 12 | Cypress Semiconductor Corp returned to profitability in the first quarter of 1993 ended March 29 , reporting net income of $2.4m against a loss of $23.7m in the fourth quarter , on revenues of $69.5m , up 3% . |
| 13 | Commenting on its figures ( page seven ) Cypress Semiconductor Corp , San Jose , says that its return to profitability in the first quarter shows that its restructuring efforts are working : headcount has been reduced to 1,394 in the quarter from 1,529 at the end of 1992 . |
| 14 | He 's taken his team to second in the first division . |
| 15 | The Indian presence in far flung outposts of the Empire , for example , from Malaysia to East Africa , can only be understood in this context , and it is important to note that a tradition of emigration from Jamaica had already developed in the nineteenth century , with 2,000 Jamaicans migrating to build railways in Panama , followed by well over 80,000 who went to work on the first attempt at constructing the Panama Canal in the 1880s . |
| 16 | The Organization of Petrolem Exporting Countries ( OPEC ) held its six-monthly ministerial meeting in Vienna on Nov. 26-27 , electing Jibril Aminu of Nigeria as OPEC President , and ending with an agreement to allow member countries to continue to produce near to capacity in the first quarter of 1992 . |
| 17 | The momentum of the swing forces you to turn your back on the opponent , who is waiting to counter-attack at the first opportunity . |
| 18 | Faith that Jesus was God 's anointed prophet and king ( Messiah ) was basic to self-definition for the first church . |
| 19 | Who introduced him to gambling in the first place ? |
| 20 | It does not deal directly with possession of weapons , nor with the legitimacy of resort to war in the first place . |
| 21 | He also sees that the Western-led coalition can not ensure peace or a new order because it ‘ is not willing to address ’ the very factors such as dictatorship and maldistribution of wealth and power which led to war in the first place . |
| 22 | I 'VE just been to court for the first time in my life at 74 , because my local council said I owed them £63 for my wife 's poll tax during 1991–92 . |
| 23 | But his attitude was positive as he returned to Obergurgl for the first time in years for our jaunt . |
| 24 | It 's ten minutes to showtime on the first day of Lollapalooza , and the floorboards in the backstage enclosure vibrate with the approach of the humungous Boo Yaa Tribe . |
| 25 | In developing countries , where family planning is rarely practised prior to birth of the first child , the timing of first union bears directly upon fertility patterns , including the age at which the woman gives birth to her first child , often also the nature and pattern of subsequent reproductive events , as well as completed family size . |
| 26 | Cue a sound tape by recording a guide-track to indicate where each section of the music should start and end : set the tape to a start-mark ; set tape recorder to record-pause ; set the video tape to play-pause on the first frame of picture ; release both machines together calling out music cues into a microphone connected to the tape recorder while you watch the pictures on screen . |
| 27 | However , as EC businesses restructure themselves in preparation for the single market and as previously protected industrial sectors are open to competition for the first time , takeover activity is one means by which new corporate entities can be created and structured on a pan-European basis . |
| 28 | After all , she was returning to competition for the first time in five years . |
| 29 | As a result , life in such temporary accommodation can be extremely stressful and can serve to add markedly to the stresses which gave rise to homelessness in the first place . |
| 30 | The real mystery about his story is not why two wives refused to make love to him , but how he stopped talking about himself long enough to invite them to bed in the first place . |