Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pos pn] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | A young student at Bangor University made his first TV appearance with us . |
| 2 | Setting up of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell had been agreed in October 1945 ; approval to build the first British atomic pile for the production of plutonium had been given in December ; the Chiefs of Staff had stated their requirement for a British manufactured atomic bomb in January 1946 ; William Penney ( later Sir William ) had begun to plan the Atomic Weapons Section of the Armaments Research Establishment , of which he was Director , in mid-1946 ; the Air Ministry placed its first requisition for an atomic bomb on the Ministry of Supply in August ; and Lord Portal , the wartime Chief of Air Staff , who had become Controller of Atomic Energy in the Ministry of Supply , sought a mandate from the Prime Minister to set atomic bomb development in train during the autumn of 1946 . |
| 3 | I was just let off for an afternoon to sit my first year Sociology exam and then I came into the hospital that was to be my home for the next three years . |
| 4 | The invasion of the non-marine habitat probably first happened in the Carboniferous , but relatives of the living land snails are rare before the Cretaceous , at which time the familiar Helix made its first appearance . |
| 5 | The 30-year-old Scouser plays his first game for Coventry since his £250,000 permanent move from Newcastle against Liverpool , the club he worshipped as a boy . |
| 6 | In 1988 the National Radiological Protection Board produced its first report commissioned by the government into whether there was any link . |
| 7 | Legislation to allow Nazi war criminals to be put on trial passed its first reading in the Commons . |
| 8 | The penny farthing made its first appearance in 1870 and was ridden round the world in 1884 . |
| 9 | Communism found its first means of expression in the various international organizations ( the Internationals ) that were established by Marx and Engels and their followers from the 1860s on . |
| 10 | Russia 's space industry has won a contract to launch its first western satellite . |
| 11 | Ten years ago on 25 June the Joint European Torus ( JET ) experiment produced its first plasma . |
| 12 | Bill Levy took over as editor , and Mick Farren , whose relationship with It was to survive the history of the underground made his first appearance . |
| 13 | Smyth and Kilgore form a formidable half-back partnership in the City of Derry rugby team but both will be absent when the club plays its first game at its new Judges Road ground tomorrow . |
| 14 | This month sees the TOP Programme completing its first 18 months of operation . |
| 15 | That September the President made his first significant move to provide military equipment to the British government . |
| 16 | The Association appointed its first full-time Marketing Manager , . |
| 17 | Juniors ' new deal meets its first deadline |
| 18 | The grateful club played its first game in over a year last month , but , surprisingly , not in Broomfield and Alexander colours . |
| 19 | SCOTLAND captain David Sole has given short shrift to anyone who has blamed Martin Bayfield and Tim Rodber for the drastic change in Scottish scrummaging fortunes between the World Cup semi-final and the Five Nations opener , when his side scored their first pushover try against England for donkey 's years , despite losing by a record score . |
| 20 | His brother , Francisco Garçia Lorca , has very finely defined the canciones , one of the most notable poetic forms used by Lorca , as a lyric in which : the poet checks his first flights in order to achieve greater purification … |
| 21 | The Club celebrated its first 50 years in style , viz. an extract its first 50 years in style , viz. an extract from the Henley Standard of July 25th , 1958 : ‘ Weekend of Celebration at Harpsden . |
| 22 | Cycling was the craze of the era and The Cycling Travellers ' Club organized their first tour to the Continent in 1879 . |
| 23 | It would be a brave man who would accuse Aitken of cheating on his present club to protect his first senior team , however , and a foolish one who continued to harbour the notion after watching his display of honest professionalism . |
| 24 | As well as fine-tuning his own stamina and fitness by clocking up to 70 miles in training each week , Paul has been helping his 12-year-old daughter Sacha in her bid to compete her first four-mile London mini-marathon . |
| 25 | KING GEORGE hero The Fellow is now as short as 7-4 ( from 3-1 ) with Coral to land his first Gold Cup at Cheltenham in March . |
| 26 | He was jitterbugging with the recoil , and the gun 's momentum kept his first sweep going for a couple of yards even after he realised he 'd missed me . |
| 27 | That day the Brigade gave their first public display , and these events , with the rescue from a burning building as the highlight , were to continue into the 1930s . |
| 28 | In 1988 , the Brazilian won his first title when the ‘ 11 out of 16 ’ rule applied , despite Prost having a higher gross total . |
| 29 | I have struggled to pay the loan and have now obtained a Smith and Nephew scholarship to pay my first year 's course fees . |
| 30 | Twenty years later , the Daily Mirror hired this car to transport its first million-pound Bingo winner , Mrs. Maudie Barrett to the Town Hall to receive her cheque . |