Example sentences of "first [noun] [prep] a [adj] [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Musically the interim was not unproductive : he compiled several keyboard concertos from other composers ' music collected in Paris and London , and made his first foray into vocal music , with a couple of Italian arias ; he composed a comedy in Latin for Salzburg university entitled Apollo et Hyacinthus , a piece of Passion music , and the first act of a sacred Singspiel , Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots , written in collaboration with Joseph Haydn 's younger brother Michael ( who since 1762 had been music director to the Archbishop of Salzburg ) and another local composer , Jacob Adlgasser . |
| 2 | A Marxist writer would probably identify this group as the first stirrings of a black petit bourgeoisie . |
| 3 | Shortly before the posting to Malta he had claimed the unit 's first victory over a four-engined Fw200 . |
| 4 | It includes my CV , a forged testimonial from Mike Channon and the offer to work my first season for a ridiculous 70K a year . |
| 5 | It reads at first sight like a selfless Magna Carta for the wild — until you begin to glimpse ( as in that ancient charter ) the barons ' hidden agenda . |
| 6 | It was my first taste of a major Grand Prix meeting and I thought that it was brilliant , colourful and exciting . |
| 7 | Well she ca n't be much cop if she 'd open her legs to a first date to a Dutch s sailor . |