Example sentences of "this [noun] [prep] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My initial impression , on seeing this guitar for the first time , was that Rockwood have tried very hard to steer away from total Strat clone , whilst keeping all the essential ingredients pretty much to the fore . |
| 2 | In response to Air Ministry Specification R14/24 calling for a large , long-range flying-boat , Blackburn Aircraft ventured into this field for the first time in 1924 with their RB.1 Iris ( Blackburn 's previous flying-boat experience had been with the diminutive N.1B and Pellet single-seat designs ) . |
| 3 | Indeed , I have found that students and businessmen who are using this technique for the first time tend to get confused between the two axes . |
| 4 | As we pointed out in a tailpiece to this chapter in the first edition , the CNAA announced in June 1979 a modification of validation procedures for public sector institutions offering its courses . |
| 5 | ah , it was alright , er , it was a bit , David did a good performance , erm , and there was this boy in the first year , and he was apparently been turned down by Lambda Do you know who Lambda are , I do n't even know who they are . |
| 6 | I hand initially intended to start this column with the first sentence of what is now its second paragraph , but felt it would amusingly underscore the premise of the piece — the ubiquity and infinite adaptability of Magritte 's once exclusively surrealist insights — were it to open thus . |
| 7 | Thus this work on the first century of Ottoman history bears the marks of the great disappointment at the collapse of Bayezid 's empire . |
| 8 | Not wildly entertaining , but with unintentionally wildly funny moments , this recollection of the first crossing of the Atlantic by Christopher Columbus 500 years ago , is more round the bend than round the world . |
| 9 | If we 're so smart we would n't be in this mess in the first place . |
| 10 | ‘ If she had done her job properly , I would never have been in this mess in the first place . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ And I 'm sorry , too , ’ puts in Rainbow , ‘ for getting you into this mess in the first place . |
| 12 | Part of her , that stubborn , spirited side , the side that had got her into this mess in the first place , would n't let her give up , back out and admit that Luke Denner and his sexuality were more than she could handle . |
| 13 | Yet he is required to hand over his children 's future to the ‘ non-ideological ’ market forces he thinks are largely responsible for getting us all into this mess in the first place . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's over-consumption that got us into this mess in the first place , ’ says Julia Langer . |
| 15 | The biggest question mark over Major out of the row is how the Government got into this mess in the first place . |
| 16 | In fact they were clearly entranced by Hannah — which , it has to be said , is par for the course with everyone meeting this lady for the first time . |
| 17 | Some babies affected like this die in the first year of their life , those who do not die can face a lifetime of handicap . |
| 18 | Some babies affected like this die in the first year of their life , those who do not die can face a lifetime of handicap . |
| 19 | It is worth emphasizing quite how serious a refusal this finery of the first Edwardians represented . |
| 20 | A Marxist writer would probably identify this group as the first stirrings of a black petit bourgeoisie . |
| 21 | ‘ That was something I missed terribly when I retired and doing this race for the first time is a way of replacing it . ’ |
| 22 | General Motors and Ford both expect to lose money on car manufacturing this quarter for the first time since the 1982 recession , largely as a result of overcapacity in the market . |
| 23 | The decision to investigate this relationship in the first place was bound up with theories of the social function of closeknit networks ( see 5.7.1 ) . |
| 24 | I was fortunate to have been associated with him in this development over the first half of the 1940s . |
| 25 | Today , Kirov intended to call upon this facility for the first time . |
| 26 | 24 year old Shaun Gooch and 22 year old Anthony Gallagher , both from Swindon arrived at Gloucester Crown Court this morning for the first day of their trial . |
| 27 | Several of the articles in this important collection produced over the last ten years and gathered together in this volume for the first time , focus particularly on ordinary femininity . |
| 28 | Hereford lost this game in the first half . |
| 29 | Bernard Breslauer has the finest collection of illuminated leaves in the U.S. , on display this month for the first time |
| 30 | New ways of working together are introduced at Sullom Voe this month in the first move towards improving the utilisation of the terminal 's resources . |