Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it marks the beginning of the United States their first real world power . |
| 2 | Happy and novel and thoroughly charming , it gave several talented artists their first big chance , going on to bigger , if hardly better things . |
| 3 | Alfie Common scored a penalty at Bramall Lane , home of Sheffield United , to give Middlesbrough their first away win for two years and they managed to avoid the drop to the Second Division . |
| 4 | It was the Foreign Office 's reluctance to upset the entente with France by pressing too hard on the Congo issue which first convinced Morel of the baneful effects of traditional diplomacy , and provoked him to develop a coherent critique of what he later called ‘ the intrigues and imbecilities of professional diplomats . ’ |
| 5 | But the kicking of Simon Hodgkinson brought England their first grand slam since nineteen eighty . |
| 6 | Moving round the archways of Valencia 's bull-ring where , that night , Nirvana would give Spain its first in-the-flesh taste of what this nonsense was all about , it was almost a relief to greet Kurt Cobain once again , a paler , bleached-haired , bespectacled Kurt Cobain , but recognisably the same lovable scruff who late last year turned rock 'n' roll upside down with a song named after a deodorant . |
| 7 | JUNIOR education minister William Shelton did not know whether he was coming or going last week when he gave an experimental communications system known as Project Universe its first public airing . |
| 8 | Certainly that was Donat 's experience , writing from the set of Perfect Strangers ( 1945 ) : ‘ No script to go on — just a mass of blarney from A. K. Our first complete script arrived five days ago — we have been filming for sixteen weeks ! |
| 9 | The Western Wynde Mass of Taverner was one of the pieces which first alerted non-specialist listeners to the glories of Tudor church music . |
| 10 | These were of immense consequence in giving elected Indian officials their first real taste of power , and in encouraging them to ask for more — much more , needless to say , than Curtis had either foreseen or intended . |
| 11 | He also gave Brando his first light comedy role in the musical Guys and Dolls opposite Frank Sinatra . |
| 12 | After leaving the Navy he also wrote much fiction , and as a novelist in the early post-war years his first published work , The Felthams ( 1950 ) , was thought highly of and his bestseller , The Rock ( 1957 ) , served to establish him as a writer of more than a little promise . |
| 13 | To consolidate his position he had given the baronage their first general charter of liberties , and he had promised generous payments to the count of Flanders for mercenaries . |
| 14 | It was Tylor who first taught anthropology under this name at Oxford in 1884 and he carried forward and extended some of the theoretically more important strands in Morgan 's work . |
| 15 | Obviously a person who first acquired consumer goods as a businessman , and then chose to put them into consumer use for his own private uses could take advantage of this section . |
| 16 | It was the small firms who first spotted specialized market segments and exploited them , and they are encouraged in this by the ability to sub-contract most of the holiday provision to other operators . |
| 17 | Fort he first boundary-value problem the prescribed surface displacements are compatible with a uniform strain ( the average strain ) . |
| 18 | Lincat also announced last week its first overseas acquisition . |
| 19 | The data set was subdivided into people whose first recorded case or control event occurred in 1976 or before and those whose first recorded events occurred between 1977–86 . |
| 20 | Queen Jane ( the former Lady Jane Grey ) lost the throne on 19 July 1553 — having been sovereign for twelve days — to be succeeded by Mary whose first regnal year was dated from that day , but her second regnal year began on 6 July 1554 , thus ignoring the ‘ reign ’ of Jane . |
| 21 | In these years Frederick gave Europe its first real example of enlightened despotism in action . |
| 22 | And to make the point even more strongly , Lend-Lease was ended at Congressional insistence in August 1945 before the war with Japan was over ; and the Truman Administration was only allowed to grant Britain her first post-war loan on the most ungenerous terms . |
| 23 | ‘ Charismatic ’ was the word he first used and later withdrew — apparently on the grounds that Jefferson 's personality , while it is undoubtedly attractive to teenagers , is n't particularly pleasant . |
| 24 | CHATAM may give trainer Martin Pipe and jockey Peter Scudamore their first Grand National winner by scoring in the Martell sponsored spectacular at Liverpool next Saturday . |
| 25 | In his last year as President , Woodward is desperately keen to give Essex their first senior national title and has taken up the role of joint-manager to that end . |
| 26 | That will give London its first express route across the capital and it will be a boon to many travellers . |
| 27 | Her ground breaking shows 5 Black Women at the Africa Centre , Black Woman Time Now and The Thin Black Line brought the work of artists such as Veronica Ryan , Sonia Boyce and Sutapa Biswas to a wider public , often taking the risk of giving women their first public exhibition . |
| 28 | A subject analysis of theses whose first related paper was published in the general journal Nature , reveals the following proportions : |
| 29 | By 1787 Thornton was the established manager of theatres at Henley , Newbury , and Andover , adding to these in the following year his first purpose-built theatre at Reading . |
| 30 | Caldy give batsman Greg Watterson his first senior game of the season for today 's Competition game at Wirral . |