Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [adj] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was this case that first showed the considerable legal sanctions available against unions under the new legislation . |
| 2 | Sudden moves from the government can cause terrible trouble in the housing market , in this case fr first time buyers faced with bigger bills . |
| 3 | He clawed at the broken wheel that first dragged him across , then pinned him to the road . |
| 4 | This is a gutsy South African first novel , a romantic adventure , with the next one in hardback coming at the same time , and she will be in the UK promoting . |
| 5 | Although it was a powerful but very generalized recognition of the properties of tribal art that first struck Picasso during the following years he also became familiar with a wide range of its artefacts and almost immediately began amassing a collection of his own . |
| 6 | It was the Daily Mirror that first revealed the dangers of foam-filled furniture . |
| 7 | In reminding himself that his responsibilities were for the President , he recalled the way that Mariana had looked at the old man that first day when he had met them out on the dock , the President casting for bonefish . |
| 8 | For some reason this first mechanical horse did not utilise the inclined ramp coupling . |
| 9 | In this conversation several first generation speakers are present , and both British English and Creole are used at different times . |
| 10 | That is a lot less than in the same period in 1990 ( 9m man-days ) , but this year those first three months also saw a startling 8% fall in GNP . |
| 11 | A number of District Courts took the position on that issue that first resort should still be had to the Convention . |
| 12 | One is led to ask whether it is the attention to and general nature of such claims that first needs explaining , especially when it appears that they derive from such a specific social group , namely those in a western academic sub-culture who could arguably be said to have their own interests at stake . |
| 13 | It was an aerial photograph that first drew my attention to the site — and not a very clear photograph at that . |
| 14 | It was an electric car that first broke the 100 km/h barrier , when it set a world speed record of 104 km/h in 1898 . |
| 15 | A routine scan when mum Lynette , 19 , was three months pregnant first alerted doctors to the baby 's problem . |
| 16 | Even those of which we have evidence are very daunting creatures — and the most surprising descendants to have sprung from the simple little shells that first appeared 600 million years ago . |
| 17 | As an example , consider 2% index-linked Treasury 2013 first issued on 21 February 1985 . |
| 18 | Recognition for Michael 's work has recently come in the form of a fifteen thousand pound joint first prize in the Jameson awards for environmental research . |
| 19 | Erm but that 's if you just progr project forward where we are cos we used up in , in three months what we should have done for the whole year so you 've only got ta do that , so we 've done a hundred thousand pounds this first quarter and if you 've four more , three more quarters there 's another three hundred thousand pounds over budget . |
| 20 | And to complicate matters somewhat , historically many items that first appeared as luxury goods later became items of mass consumption and thus entered into the determination of the value of labour-power ; these include motor cars , vacuum cleaners , washing machines . |
| 21 | I had been swimming a long time that first Sunday , far out in the bay , and he could easily have slipped the things on to the Bourani end of the beach while I was in the water . |
| 22 | Er in the summer term particularly , at the end of the summer term those retirements thirty first of August because as you can appreciate they are sort of inundated applications at the end of the academic year . |
| 23 | He shot her an enigmatic glance as she stepped on board the powerful speed-launch , scene of the dramatic rescue that first night . |
| 24 | He noticed too that the lone bee that first found the food performed a regular sequence of movements on returning to her hive . |
| 25 | Though well remembered at Feethams , Scott 's soccer career was relatively uneventful : 25 Newcastle United first team appearances between 1956–60 ; 47 for Darlington , 19 at York . |
| 26 | Ironically , it was a severe injury that first brought Carvill 's Hill to Martin Pipe 's stables in Somerset where , working closely with the Bristol vets , he has established an enviable reputation not only for helping horses to recover but also for avoiding the injuries that plague racehorses , especially jumpers . |
| 27 | In this way Minton can be seen to have had an influence on the tougher and more abrasive realism that first emerged at the ‘ Young Contemporaries ’ exhibition at the RBA Galleries in January 1952 . |
| 28 | Let's take the Irish Cricket Annual first . |
| 29 | Let's take the Irish Cricket Annual first . |
| 30 | It is intriguing to speculate , as you stand in a swamp listening to this astounding and deafening chorus , that , although much must have changed in the millions of years since the first amphibians appeared , it was , nonetheless , an amphibian voice that first sounded over the land which , until then , had heard nothing but the chirps and whirrs of insects . |