Example sentences of "[vb -s] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And for my taste it fulfils the first law of festivals — it 's fun . |
| 2 | THE BEGINNING OF THE END Lord Young looks on as Paul Reichmann drives the first pile at Canary Wharf in 1987 . |
| 3 | The tellers look first at who receives the first preference on each ballot paper and put into each candidate 's box every ballot paper on which he is number one . |
| 4 | Enoch builds the first city . |
| 5 | Together with Caedwalla 's grant of land in Battersea in Surrey , also to the monastery of Barking ( CS 87 : S 1246 ) , it constitutes the first sign of an extension of western Saxon influence north of the Thames and an indication of potential development . |
| 6 | ‘ I have spent the last six months investigating Free People , and what they have asked for constitutes the first stage of their long-term programme . ’ |
| 7 | NEWTOWNABBEY mayor Alderman Arthur Kell will send a rocket into orbit this Saturday when he lights the first firework at the Valley Leisure Centre 's annual display . |
| 8 | Roger Pringle , director of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust , signs the first letter for the Stratford-on-Avon Group at their stall set up in the town centre . |
| 9 | And Ampex produces the first video recorder . |
| 10 | Mrs Elizabeth Allen , manager of Peterborough Community Service , insists the first principle is ‘ to improve care for patients , not cut costs ’ , though the potential for the latter is also important . |
| 11 | Cimflex Teknowledge Corp of Pittsburgh is selling the unit that represents the first part of its name , its Automated Factories Division , to Flexpack Corp , a wholly owned unit of Julius Capital Partners LP.The price includes assumption of some liabilities , about $160,000 in cash and potential royalty payments dependent on future Flexpack sales . |
| 12 | The Labour Party claims that this represents the first stage in a policy of full market rents . |
| 13 | In this model , modelling land-use and transportation policies represents the first stage of this air quality simulation system ( Gross , 1982 ) . |
| 14 | This currently funded project represents the first stage of this research . |
| 15 | Our new size Journal represents the first format change since 1976 when the former tabloid paper became an A4 magazine . |
| 16 | The transliteration of the original with qwt , in line 3 , reasonably accurately represents the first letter ( which might also be represented as a figure nine if nine has a straight back stroke ) . |
| 17 | This particular book Etchings Illustrative of Scottish Character and Scenery represents the first appearance of a deaf artist in pictorial literature . |
| 18 | It represents the first extinction of a British mammal since the wolf was hunted out in the mid-18th century . |
| 19 | Mankind 's failure to recognise with conviction that this basic source of ‘ goodness ’ represents the first premise from which to define God , would mean that the only way in which civilisation can prosper is barred , for there is no other identifiable source available . |
| 20 | The purchase of Ephron 's field and cave represents the first step towards Israel 's actual possession of the Promised Land . |
| 21 | It seems perfectly possible that the creation — or re-creation , if one accepts that Molla Edebali and Tursun Fakih were in some sense Muftis — of the office of Mufti to which Molla Fenari and Molla Yegan were appointed represents the first step in the creation of the office to which Fahreddin Acemi was appointed , a groping towards the concept which was fully realized in the office held by the latter . |
| 22 | The exhibition also represents the first showing of works by Olga Rozanova and reveals her as a very substantial painter who clearly made a crucial contribution to the Russian Avant-garde : the paintings are stunning , both in scale and conception , and the unusual colour contrasts are highly original . |
| 23 | But these were grassroots reggae music , and ‘ Catch A Fire ’ represents the first time that Marley — or indeed any reggae artist other than Jimmy Cliff — had ever been given the budget that a rock band got to record an LP . |
| 24 | Seacontrol represents the first time on-board maintenance software has been made commercially available to the shipping industry by a marine coatings supplier . |
| 25 | Rather as you expected East wins the first trick with the ten of diamonds , and at trick two leads the four of spades . |
| 26 | Whilst thinking furiously about the play of the rest of the hand , you try the queen of hearts from dummy , which wins the first trick . |
| 27 | Despite his inexperience Andy wins the first race . |
| 28 | Jesus wins the first round in the battle against evil ( Mark 1 : 21–28 ) . |
| 29 | It 's you that normally wins the first hand and me for the rest . |
| 30 | The King James translation of the Book of Genesis renders the first line as In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth , confident that prior to God there was nothing , that Yahweh created the universe ex nihilo . |