Example sentences of "and a [noun] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was held by the Lord Ordinary ( Lord Wheatley ) and a majority of the First Division that the corporation was not liable to purchase tax on stationery manufactured by it and supplied to its public service departments but was liable to the tax on stationery supplied to its trading departments . |
| 2 | It has fine balusters and a door to the first floor room behind . |
| 3 | A flight of stone steps gives access and a door from the first floor of the inn has been added . |
| 4 | In the early stages he was content to keep her towards the rear of the field as Teleprompter — also attempting a mile and a half for the first time — took his accustomed role of front-runner . |
| 5 | There was an enormous fireplace to one side and a staircase to the first floor wide enough to take a regiment . |
| 6 | three days ' leave , and a chance for the first time in many months to reflect on life . |
| 7 | Four years later , in the summer of 1953 , the BBC broadcast The Quatermass Experiment , a six part serial by Nigel Kneale , and a landmark as the first popularly accepted science fiction production . |
| 8 | Breeze had heard her history from a certain Mrs Easton , wife of a poultry farmer in Clyst St George , and a gossip of the first order . |
| 9 | He has been so occupied since before his first book was published ; in season and out of season , through thick and thin , and always with the certitude that his views , his perceptions , would prevail : a catalyst and an agitator of the first order . |
| 10 | So far as I am aware , no writer on Ultra has noted the comparison between the Coventry affair and an episode in the First World War when secret intelligence was apparently neglected in order to protect the source . |