Example sentences of "[prep] the first [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | BORIS YELTSIN , maverick and volleyball enthusiast , is the only plausible rival to Mikhail Gorbachev for the first freely elected president of the Soviet Union . |
| 3 | The result is that many glider pilots are becoming complacent about parking and on a really windy day it is not unusual to see gliders at risk , just waiting for the first really big gust of wind to blow them over . |
| 4 | Tension was mounting as preparations got underway for the first ever race between a balloon , a steamroller … and a narrowboat.As entrants arrived for the annual steam rally at Upton , the contestants in the battle of the giants were all expressing optimism.Balloonist Chris Viles reckoned he was in with a good chance : |
| 5 | 20 miles of cable will provide 1 000 000 watts of light and 24 kilowatts of sound … for the first ever Wiltshire Festival at Lydiard Park in Swindon . |
| 6 | Mia Bardolet , who was responsible for the first ever victory of Ford 's Escort Cosworth , found himself without a contract this year and Opel snapped him up . |
| 7 | Twenty-six racial equality officers came to the university to enrol in classes for the first ever diploma in race and community relations . |
| 8 | MERSEYSIDERS were gathering in Sydney , Australia , today for the first ever meeting of ‘ Scousers Down Under ’ , organised with the help of the Echo . |
| 9 | Dental fluorosis , no matter how slight , is an irreversible pathological condition recognised by authorities around the world as the first readily detectable clinical symptom of previous chronic fluoride poisoning . |
| 10 | Ben now agrees with Continental opinion that his route Agincourt at Buoux , heralded as the first ever 8c , was actually preceded by Gullich 's Wall Street in Germany . |
| 11 | To this end he reintroduced a school of industrial design , sacked the Professor of Painting , Gilbert Spencer , who had advised students not to visit the 1945–6 Picasso and Matisse exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum , appointed the former fashion editor of Vogue , Madge Garland , as the first ever Professor of Fashion and invited Allan Walton , who died before he could take up the post , to head the textile department . |
| 12 | The BTO/BASF Garden Bird Survey started in September 1987 as the first ever , year-round study of garden birds . |
| 13 | erm The second half started as the first half finished , with a again a very erm entertaining game erm in the fiftieth minute , on a break , Almondsbury 's Alex Stocker was nearest to scoring for them when he floated a long ball forward which Mark Sibble was very glad to tip over the bar . |
| 14 | Levitt considers many Japanese companies as the first truly global marketers and contrasts their practices strongly with the approach taken by Hoover in marketing automatic washing machines in Europe . |
| 15 | This earned George Mackenzie national fame as the first prelingually deaf person to achieve the distinction of MA Cantab . |
| 16 | Four years later , in the summer of 1953 , the BBC broadcast The Quatermass Experiment , a six part serial by Nigel Kneale , and a landmark as the first popularly accepted science fiction production . |
| 17 | Two weeks after the first ever pictures were snatched from Bugatti 's promotional video by Autocar & Motor 's Italian editor Luca Ciferri ( 3 October ) , the first photographs of the car in the flesh have appeared . |
| 18 | Once the four old aircraft hangars were erected side-by-side to make the Central Works , construction of the first completely new car began . |
| 19 | she was one of the first anyway , so er , but it took a long time before she had them , five years ' wait , and she said , that , at the last attempt she said to her husband that 's it now , if it does n't work this time , that 's it , I 'm not having any more attempts , that 's it definitely , and they had that successfully and that 's how they had the twins , so they 're her children , they are their children , it 's just they were fertilized outside the womb , in a glass dish it 's fascinating i n't it ? she said it 's really fascinating I can assure you I said oh I can see |
| 20 | After that , the aim was to proceed relatively quickly with a fourth Hinkley station , possibly one of the first commercially operated fast breeder reactors . |
| 21 | By March 9th when the Germans were ready to make a renewed attempt on the Mort Homme , via Bethincourt to the northwest , the French were well-consolidated after their initial setback ; the Reichs Archives chronicle the ‘ tragedy of the first utterly collapsed assault on the Left Bank ’ But le beau Colonel , alas , was barely to outlive his triumph . |
| 22 | As an employee of the British Canoe Union and its Director from 1980 to 1987 , Ron was the driving force behind the staging of the first ever triple World Championships to be held in one country in a given year . |
| 23 | MP Jim Wallace made his appeal for such an inquiry on the floor of the House of Commons ; and when the topic was brought up at the Scottish Liberal Democrats Conference , he was supported by Judy Steel , wife of the former leader of the Liberal Party , and herself one of the first ever Reporters to a Children 's Panel when the system began in 1971 . |
| 24 | FRANK SINATRA ‘ 20 Golden Greats ’ 20-track compilation featuring ‘ The Lady Is A Tramp ’ and ‘ That Old Black Magic ’ among the cream of the first ever pop icon 's recordings for Capitol ( '53 –'61); |
| 25 | The Bible will now be available to the estimated 750,000 Maasai people who live in Kenya and Tanzania with the recent publication of the first ever Ki-Maasai version by the Bible Society of Kenya ( BSK ) . |
| 26 | Last year saw the completion of the first ever tenant-led £1.3 million ‘ Passive Solar Energy Demonstration Project ’ . |
| 27 | Virgin retail was among the top three record-shop chains in Britain , with shops in almost every major town and plans to develop a new concept in record retailing , a ‘ megastore ’ , in Oxford Street , close by the site of the first ever Virgin shop . |
| 28 | All tracks have been specially remixed in Q-Sound , a revolutionary technique which supposedly gives a quadraphonic effect from two stereo speakers and is one of the first ever releases to use this technique . |
| 29 | Talking of Lester Piggott he of course was the winner of the first ever Channel Four personality of the year trophy which we awarded for the first time last year . |
| 30 | By 1974 — year of the first ever World Population Conference in Bucharest — there were roughly three population camps . |