Example sentences of "to [noun] [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Losses on the Commercial Property account in connection with the Perth floods amounted to $10m in the first quarter and the terrorist explosion in the City of London at the end of April cost an estimated $10m net , excluding the reinstatement premium . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The two main threats to Sunderland in the first half came from Brooks and Coleman . |
| 4 | It was the champions ' first defeat since losing to Hull in the First Division at the start of April — a run of 13 successive victories . |
| 5 | The desperation that drives the rural poor to cities in the first place is not going to be quenched by water-cannon , police batons , or bulldozers crashing through shanty-towns . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It 's their first since splitting with Phonogram Records and taking up with Compulsion ( a new label started by the A&R man who had signed them to Phonogram in the first place ) , and shows the band in muscular form . |
| 10 | We are introduced to Imamu in the first sentence of ‘ The Disappearance ’ seeing as he is one of the main characters of the book , but although Boo Radley plays a large part in ‘ To Kill a Mockingbird ’ , I would n't consider him to be one of the main characters and it is not until we are well into chapter one that Boo is first mentioned . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Earlier , as the government and ANC took steps at the weekend to prepare for South Africa 's first all-race elections , President FW de Klerk gave cabinet posts to non-whites for the first time in South Africa 's history and got rid of white ministers said to be reluctant to back his sweeping apartheid reforms . |
| 13 | ‘ You 're absolutely right , ’ said Ellen to Bernard on the first night of their wedded life . |
| 14 | He had ever favoured Em — there were no two ways about it — and Em had been quite wrong to post herself to Norfolk in the first place . |
| 15 | ‘ That 's the reason we went to LA in the first place , to be perfectly honest . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | There is an old-fashioned quality to these performances which leaves me wishing for something just a little less well-upholstered , although I can imagine anyone coming to Bach for the first time with this recording could well come away with the impression that old LEAVES is quite simply the ‘ bizz ’ , and I for one would not wish to argue with that ! |
| 18 | WHEN Sara Gomer , Clare Wood and Julie Salmon collapsed to a 2-1 defeat to Indonesia in the first round of the Federation Cup in Melbourne last December , they were the laughing stock of the tennis world , writes our correspondent from Tokyo . |
| 19 | It was reported that trade between the two countries had increased from $770,000 in 1988 to $7,740,000 in the first quarter of 1989 . |
| 20 | And I 've borrowed money to go out to shops in the first place |
| 21 | I recently returned to Bali for the first time since my Los Angeles house burned down . |
| 22 | He returned to Syria for the first time in July 1992 to attend the funeral of his mother . |
| 23 | I 'll erm , I 'll venture and , and my parents said yes , that would be alright and so er so I came along and erm of course , it happened that he was in the he was in the forge talking to Hector on the first evening I came and that was how we met . |
| 24 | It began in April 1820 , when we came to Haworth for the first time … |
| 25 | Food flavourings maker Borthwicks jumped 2p to 30½p after serving up a 37% profits increase to £1.28m in the first half . |
| 26 | As well as being profitable and actually paying a dividend back to Detroit for the first time in years , Vauxhall is an important part of the GM empire for political reasons . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 28 | The company , which also makes Scalextric , saw profits crash by 70 per cent to £158,000 in the first half of this year . |
| 29 | But winning the first three of the five-match one-day series has supplied a crucial tonic at a time when TV pictures were being screened back live to Pakistan for the first time . |
| 30 | Personal computers are too fragile to cope with viruses and must be replaced with sophisticated systems which are resilient to viruses in the first place . |