Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [noun sg] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're opening the gates of the Manor Ground for the first time this season tomorrow … new signing Anton Rogan has been trying on his shirt today … |
| 2 | Leek Town 1 Southport 0 : The Sandgrounders ' 20 match unbeaten run came to an end as they failed to score in the HFS League for the first time this season . |
| 3 | The United States moved steadily away from the Moscow agreement in the first half of 1946 . |
| 4 | For instance , half a dozen A's are included much later because as Miller explained varieties of Aloe and Agave had only recently flowered in the Chelsea Garden for the first time and could not have appeared before . |
| 5 | The SD report for the first quarter of 1939 mentioned the speech only in the context of factors influencing the German press to fix attention firmly on foreign policy developments , and made a brief reference to Hitler 's remarks on the ‘ Church problem ’ . |
| 6 | Neither Julia nor I had realised that some delegates would be registering on the Saturday morning for the first time — we had n't covered this . |
| 7 | SPAIN recorded a sensational 6–0 win over Romania in the FIRA Championship on the first weekend of April in Madrid . |
| 8 | A Thirties scene with modern streamlined cars passing the massive war memorial constructed with the profits from shell-making by the Tramways Department in the First World War . |
| 9 | This , after all , is why we have the Maastricht treaty in the first place . |
| 10 | From these statements it is possible to deduce that Hizir Bey must have been appointed to the Sultan medrese during the first sultanate of Mehmed II ( 848–50/1444–6 ) and that Molla Arab can not therefore have begun his study with him , much less become anyone 's before the summer of 848/1444 . |
| 11 | That morning Wycliffe had heard of the Glynn family for the first time and in the few hours since he had learned something about them ; about Gerald , Gina and Barry , about Christine and Aunt Sara , and about the uncles , Alfred and Maurice . |
| 12 | SHEFFIELD Eagles soared to the finals of the Yorkshire Cup for the first time — despite Hull 's stunning opening when Lee Jackson touched down in less than nine seconds . |
| 13 | Barlow , who helped Freed State win the Nissan Shield for the first time during the past season , has taken up his appointment in time to lead Transvaal in partnership with captain Jimmy Cook on the short tour of England in July . |
| 14 | Cardiff swept to a 46-12 win over Aberavon , and their eight tries knocked Swansea off the top of the Heineken League for the first time since February 5 . |
| 15 | Nathan had not been on enough flights to be anything but excited , and he was going north of the Arctic Circle for the first time . |
| 16 | On the Wednesday morning of the first week of the schedule he was sitting with the cards spread before him and feeling fairly secure . |
| 17 | ‘ Once you start saving yourselves for big games and ducking out of tackles , you get into the wrong frame of mind and that is very dangerous , ’ warned Howard , who is hoping to steer his side through to the second round of the FA Cup for the first time for 17 years . |
| 18 | ‘ Once you start saving yourselves for big games and ducking out of tackles , you get into the wrong frame of mind and that is very dangerous , ’ warned Howard , who is hoping to steer his side through to the second round of the FA Cup for the first time for 17 years . |
| 19 | Except the O'Neil family in the first row of the circle , who sat in stupefied amazement , hardly believing what they had witnessed . |
| 20 | THE Liverpool Competition cruised to a ten wicket win over the Merseyside Competition in the first round of the President 's Trophy at Northern yesterday . |
| 21 | At No. 8/186 , with the Sternberg star over the door , was the palace of the Pötting family during the first quarter of the 18C . |
| 22 | In particular , the Soviet Union secured ‘ most favoured nation ’ access to the US market for the first time for fifty years . |
| 23 | In similar vein , a new set of application programming interfaces and library programs will let C programmers call the Pick system for the first time : until now , Pick programmers could get out to C , but C programmers could not get in . |
| 24 | This motion was triggered by a particular case which happened within the Birmingham region on the first of January nineteen ninety three which should have been a start of the European Market the people 's Europe . |
| 25 | With such beliefs the Society proved receptive to both the nativist anti-semitic tradition which had been focused on the anti-alien campaign in the East End of London between 1900 and 1905 , to the Marconi scandal before the First World War , and to international influences such as the White Russian anti-semitic propaganda directed at the Bolsheviks after 1918 . |
| 26 | Former Australian batsman Bob Cowper , who made 307 against England at Melbourne in 1965–66 , is to be the ICC referee for the first two Tests between England and Pakistan . |
| 27 | The company yesterday announced a 19.7 p.c. increase in net profit to £208m , despite the recession and the impact of the Gulf war during the first half of its financial year . |
| 28 | You indicated that there 's no sign of any er , improvement in your main markets er , but looking for er , optimistic er , calculations could you give us any indications of the er , the benefits of the er , non recurrence of the Gulf War in the first half ? |
| 29 | Initially Roy Porter chased hard in his Westfield , but when the pair came round to lap the Metro class for the first time , Porter fell foul of the squabbling saloons and dropped back . |
| 30 | Gronberg , a powerful hitter who won the Rome Classic in the first tournament of the season , gathered an eagle and four of her six birdies at the long holes . |