Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now if I 'm not mistaken , GM is vying for second place , Fiat , which at that point was tied neck and neck with VW for first place , has fallen like a rock . |
| 2 | KALAMAZOO GOES TO NETHERLANDS FOR FIRST ACQUISITION ON THE CONTINENT |
| 3 | Highlights include paintings by Gros , David , Gerard , Isabey , Regnault and Lejeune , the Emperor 's death mask taken on St Helena , and fifteen marble sculpture busts of the Bonaparte family centring on ‘ Napoleon as First Consul ’ by Canova . |
| 4 | The Torridon Mountain Rescue Team took Mr Nicholls to the Scottish Natural Heritage field centre at Kinclochewe for first aid and a hot bath . |
| 5 | The crisis was temporarily defused at a meeting of the PS executive committee on March 20 , when delegates approved a general statement of intent , confirmed Mauroy as first secretary , and redistributed senior party posts to reflect the respective strengths of the various factions . |
| 6 | On Dec. 30 the Council elected Burhanuddin Rabbani as first President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan for a two-year term . |
| 7 | Bach to First Bass ( 9:06 ) has Robinson on vibes in a halting and catchy jazz mode , with Jegede 's simple cello part emerging now and again , as if with comic intent ; after four minutes or so , the piano part steams away in a trio with drums and acoustic bass , only for Robinson 's vibes to re-appear and lead the tune to its intense conclusion . |
| 8 | April 1 , 1989 Implementation of UN independence plan begins ; South African troops clash with SWAPO guerrillas crossing from Angola on first day of ceasefire [ see pp. 36576-77 ] . |
| 9 | QPR1 Tottenham2 GORDON DURIE struck a well executed but unlikely winner to guide Tottenham to First Division safety in a pulsating London derby . |
| 10 | Yorkshire 's most testing time came soon after lunch when Metcalfe , after top-scoring with 38 , was well taken by Rajesh Maru at first slip against Cardigan Connor and David Byas was caught at mid wicket off Paul-Jan Bakker to make them a shaky 95 for three . |
| 11 | If only more leading Bolsheviks had left their ivory tower in the Kremlin in early NEP in order to examine Russia at first hand , as Yakovlev did , the reifications that poured out from their pens and mouths might not have succeeded in obscuring the realities of actual life in the 1920s . |
| 12 | Just as we fell in love at first sight with our new home , so we fell in love with you and Nigel at first meeting . |
| 13 | Members , branches , action groups , etc who intend to propose motions for debate , are asked to make sure that these are received at HQ in St Albans by first post on FRIDAY , FEBRUARY 7 , 1992 . |
| 14 | And I 'm , I 'm faxing erm I 'm sorry , I 'm not gon na fax it , I 'm just going to send a letter to national office about The Savoy in First Leisure . |
| 15 | The Open Software Foundation will launch the next version of its Distributed Computing Environment , DCE 1.2 , at UniForum : it also confirmed version 1.2 of OSF/1 , released last month , is X/Open Co Ltd Portability Guide 4-compliant and says it plans to launch a full-featured Mach microkernel version of OSF/1 in first quarter 1994 . |
| 16 | I started Chisenhall Street on first quarter points , then I would walk along to the next very scruffy part — all broken down garages and yards and things . |
| 17 | SIMON McCRACKEN , a 21-year-old fullback , has made the jump from fourth division Blackwood to first division Newport in a style which stamps him as a player to watch . |
| 18 | Workers are unworried by the erosion of W÷P resulting from increases in P , but they will strenuously resist the same erosion of W÷P resulting from reductions in W. At first blush this would appear to be yet another manifestation of the irrational phenomenon of money illusion affecting the supply of labour . |
| 19 | In 1979 we began pioneering the direct mail concept at constituency level with my wife Marlies at first typing and then working the word processor and computer . |
| 20 | On March 6 Eduard Shevardnadze , the former Soviet Foreign Minister and for 13 years first secretary of the central committee of the Communist Party of Georgia , returned to his native Georgia for first time in three years . |
| 21 | Excursions : sightseeing tours of Budapest during first weekend , one-day excursion organized py Pegazus Tours on request , 2 day weekend trips — riding tours , tours to the Danube Bend , to Lake Balaton , etc. on request , and one long weekend tour of the Hungarian countryside on request . |
| 22 | For the first time the report also compiled a " human freedom index " ( HFI ) which placed Sweden in first place and Iraq last . |
| 23 | Without addition , Bradburn was sure he had taken No. 11 Michael Owen at first slip off Hayes , but was not given the decision . |
| 24 | 81 the Court of Appeal , affirming the decision of Birkett J. at first instance , held that a trade union , having at that time a legal personality recognised by the law , could sue in defamation . |
| 25 | In City of Prince George v. British Columbia Television System Ltd. ( 1978 ) 85 D.L.R. ( 3d ) 755 the Bognor Regis case was followed and the Manchester Corporation case distinguished both by Toy J. at first instance in the British Columbia Supreme Court and by the British Columbia Court of Appeal ( 1979 ) 95 D.L.R. ( 3d ) 577 . |
| 26 | It was the latter view which was accepted both by Nolan J. at first instance , and by Ralph Gibson L.J . |
| 27 | The next significant decision is the decision of Fraser J. at first instance in the High Court of Ontario in Duval v. Seguin ( 1972 ) 26 D.L.R. ( 3d ) 418 . |
| 28 | The facts are fully set out in the judgments of Vinelott J. at first instance [ 1990 ] 1 W.L.R. 204 and of the Court of Appeal [ 1991 ] Ch. 203 . |
| 29 | That 's , that 's who he boxed that Michael Watson in first place . |
| 30 | But some Oxfordshire aid workers who 've seen the horrors of Bosnia at first hand feel the airlift is wrong |