Example sentences of "[art] first [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In ‘ Drúadan Forest ’ the second element is Gondorian -adan , ‘ man ’ , the first probably drú- , ‘ magic ’ . |
| 2 | Oh yes , most of the lads here are really erm over the moon about it , it was a tough game , we erm outplayed them for the first probably three quarters of an hour really . |
| 3 | ON the first bitterly cold day this year — the Key Street offices had a ‘ temporary interruption ’ of the water supply on , while Anglian Water proceeded to dig up the water mains . |
| 4 | It was at the Leith Street premises that the Edinburgh Deaf and Dumb Benevolent Society , the first properly constituted adult deaf organisation in the world , was instituted in 1835 . |
| 5 | The first wholly non-communist Bulgarian government since the Second World War , formed following the Union of Democratic Forces ( UDF ) victory in the October general election [ see p. 38539 ] , took office on Nov. 8 , when the National Assembly approved the Cabinet by 128 votes to 90 . |
| 6 | These compounds were histamine analogues and cimetidine , developed by Nobel laureate Sir James Black , was the first clinically successful one . |
| 7 | The first clinically useful antibiotic drug was penicillin . |
| 8 | The first completely European editions , in German , French , Italian and Spanish , will be published by January . |
| 9 | Once the four old aircraft hangars were erected side-by-side to make the Central Works , construction of the first completely new car began . |
| 10 | Mr Hockney , 55 , has taken his role as designer seriously — this is the first completely new Hockney design to be seen at Covent Garden . |
| 11 | Turning to the north-east , I could just make out the lines of the walls of Siri , the first completely new city to be built by the Muslim conquerors in the Delhi plains . |
| 12 | He was sent to be , commanded to be , the first completely human being , the first to be wholly at one with the human race , to be , therefore , wholly at risk from us , to be the victim , the scapegoat on whom we could project our guilt and our fear of being human , of being loved . |
| 13 | It will be the first completely non-smoking salon in the Colchester area for staff and clients . |
| 14 | It will be the first completely free election in East Europe in more than 40 years . |
| 15 | The first distinctly Bosnian state emerged in the late twelfth century under the legendary Ban Kulin ( 1180–1204 ) . |
| 16 | The Wolfenden Report also opened television up to the first openly gay programme , Granada 's 1957 ‘ Homosexuality and the Law , A Prologue to the Wolfenden Report ’ . |
| 17 | The first commercially available quinolone product was nalidixic acid ( 2 ) — a 1,8-naphthyridonecarboxylic acid or 8-azaquinolonecarboxylic acid — produced in 1962 by G. Y. Lesher and coworkers . |
| 18 | The first commercially available products from this group of drugs for anti-bacterial chemotherapy were the fluoroquinolones , which bore very little resemblance to the nalidixic acid derivatives that did not contain fluorine . |
| 19 | It 's the first commercially available amplifier to be based on ‘ current feedback ’ technology , which is supposed to provide high speed , wide bandwidth amplification . |
| 20 | Tivoli Systems Inc , Austin , Texas , next week will wheel out a new developers toolkit , the first commercially available programmers ' kit for building system management applications compatible with the Open Software Foundation 's Distributed Management Environment , it says . |
| 21 | It is the first commercially available ODBMS on NeXT . |
| 22 | Almost certainly the first commercially available PDL . |
| 23 | In amongst Esso petroleum storage tanks on the north side of the river a high Cleopatra Needle by old fortifications marks the memorial to Henry Bell whose Comet , the first commercially successful steam ship , was launched on the Clyde in 1812 . |
| 24 | This was the first commercially successful steam engine and was used for pumping water out of a mine . |
| 25 | The first generally available databases were often produced as a stage in the computer-based printing of abstract and index publications and contained , therefore , bibliographic references . |
| 26 | It was apparently difficult to see if Ruffini 's proof was complete and despite a further attempt by him at the problem , in 1813 , the credit for supplying the first generally accepted proof of impossibility goes to Abel ( pronounced " Arbel " ) in 1824 . |
| 27 | As the dawn came she was weak with exhaustion and relief , watching and willing the first barely perceptible lightening of the sky . |
| 28 | The first internationally successful British sound film was Rome Express from Gaumont-British , but its box-office performance was soon eclipsed by that of The Private Life of Henry VIII ( 1933 ) , Alexander Korda 's calculated attempt on the international market . |
| 29 | The first reasonably reliable and convincing learning task for Drosophila involved training them using just this sense of smell . |
| 30 | Ironically , in view of Tanzania 's later advance along a socialist path , this proved to be the first entirely commercial radio service in English-speaking Africa . |