Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this field the first ‘ acetate ’ made by The Beatles was recently bought back by Paul McCartney , reportedly for £10,000 . |
| 2 | In this case the first layer Ni atom is well imaged , but not the second layer Ni atom . |
| 3 | At this level the first of the two chords is often chord V of a minor key , rather than chord I. The dénouement of Tancrè de contains three examples , each of which accompanies an allusion to Clorinda 's fate . |
| 4 | LIFESPAN RDBI will encrypt this password the first time the data transfer program is run . |
| 5 | He had already been to quite a number of shows where he competed in halter classes ; but this wag the first occasion where he was ridden in a saddle class . |
| 6 | ‘ I fell in love with this place the first time I saw it . |
| 7 | Through this device the first German republic sought to preserve the role of the so-called ‘ free ’ welfare associations , foremost the established churches , which had become the key providers of welfare services ( Sachsse , 1988 ) . |
| 8 | At this point the first contingent of Bachad children was sent off to their own training centre , Gwrych Castle , in Wales . |
| 9 | At this point the first disturbance broke out in one of the galleries , with groups of men and women starting to chant " Fascism means murder : Down with Mosley " . |
| 10 | ‘ I have made up my own mind where I want to go and I spoke to Frank Clark this morning the first time for a fortnight . |
| 11 | In this respect the first Merovingian code was at least perceived by men of the seventh century as being different from its Visigothic and Burgundian counterparts . |
| 12 | I certainly do n't , because erm , according to this policy the first thing the Russian people have got to put up with is a high level of unemployment . |
| 13 | Ignore this warning the first time LIFESPAN RDBI is run . |
| 14 | Given the small size of the LOB corpus and the reliance on the OALDCE to supplement this information the first equation is safer . |
| 15 | In this situation the first entry relating to the sales is clear as we reduce the sales by £600 and reduce the bank account by £600 in respect of the refund . |
| 16 | But in this year the first year of the project , because it will be towards the end of the year anyway it has no revenue , net revenue effect . |
| 17 | Also at this time the first boreholes to be commissioned by the Survey in Scotland were drilled . |
| 18 | from the first , an Australian marathon runner , take out the first two letters of his forename. from the second , an American sprinter , we want another two letters , this time the first two from his surname . |
| 19 | By this time the first Pan American Mystère 20 had been delivered to the PAC facility at Burbank for outfitting . |
| 20 | In this context the first reactions of Europeans to the reality of the native inhabitants of the Americas is of particular interest , for here , in a very explicit sense , experience and fantasy were brought face to face . |
| 21 | That evening the first annual dinner was held . |
| 22 | It is not generally known that among the sculptured panels at the top of the Library facade , there is one featuring two children fingerspelling at each other the first two letters of the alphabet . |
| 23 | Odd — I 've never dreamt about Cal , even though we 've been friends ever since we sat next to each other the first day I walked into that school . |
| 24 | I know she were , she were brick shit she were , I said to Lyn I said I 'm bloody sure , I could have actually , she , she were nearly eating out of my arm , in them last few weeks , I 'll tell you , ooh the encouragement I got about the driving ooh I ca n't do it Lyn and when I comes in that day the first test I had she 'd made a great big fucking cake |
| 25 | As trade increased she was joined by the GLENALBYN and the MARTELLO , the latter being the first iron paddle steamer owned by the company . |
| 26 | Apart from that kiss the first night we busked together , there has been nothing . |
| 27 | And also , in that we , in that verse the first use of the word relative is that very near kinsman , and the second use , right at the end , one of our closest relatives , it 's the word that is used there that means the one who has the right to redeem . |
| 28 | In Nigeria in the same decade the first cocoa plantations were established by the African traders of Lagos , such as J.K. Coker , using pods from Fernando Po . |
| 29 | On the same day the first indication that such dialogue was already under way came with the announcement that evacuation of Armenian and Russian refugees and servicemen 's families from Baku had been suspended after the Popular Front had agreed to guarantee their safety ( more than 30,000 people , including most of Baku 's Armenian community , having already been evacuated in the previous 10 days ) . |
| 30 | On the same day the first reading took place of a bill to merge the Ministries of Defence and Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps into a single Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces Logistics [ for merger of Ministries in August Cabinet reshuffle see p. 36859 ] . |