Example sentences of "[adv] the first [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He became arguably the first industrial designer , working in ceramic , glass , metal , furniture , wallpapers , and textiles . |
| 2 | Sandy played absolutely fantastically the first two days , but the greens were very strange and unkind to him . |
| 3 | All the works played clearly displayed this facet , especially the first two Alternances for wind quintet and Scherzo da Fantasia III for violin and cello . |
| 4 | Three hundred and forty years later , in 1918 , the National Education Association and the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools , in the United States , approved the so-called Certain Standards ( named after the chairman of its working party , Carl Caspar Certain ) which laid down the first standard specifications for a secondary school library . |
| 5 | ‘ Boy ’ Mould had served in France with 1 Squadron in 1939/40 , where he had shot down the first German aircraft to be claimed by R.A.F. fighters over the Western Front ; he had over eight victories to his credit at this time . |
| 6 | Was this , perhaps the first 5-point try scored in this country ? |
| 7 | The Commission 's action against Dennis Levine was perhaps the first major success . |
| 8 | Calvinist Ghent in the 1570s , Paris under the domination of the Catholic League were perhaps the first sustained exercises in popular power in the modern period , and even they did not last long . |
| 9 | Perhaps the first significant initiative came from France , although the Dutch politician , Sicco Mansholt , had already drafted a plan for agricultural free trade that would benefit Western Europe as a whole , but especially the cost-effective Netherlands agricultural industry . |
| 10 | But if Charles was the first Carolingian , and perhaps the first medieval king , to show an insider 's appreciation of contemporary scholarship , he had ( directly or indirectly ) his mother to thank . |
| 11 | This studied the texts by the techniques of literary and historical analysis , attempted to separate out historical material from legend or poetry , and even began to raise sensitive problems of authorship — as , for instance , whether all the first five books of the Old Testament were in fact written by Moses . |
| 12 | So the first two days must be spent tethered in solitary confinement . |
| 13 | And so the first full-time students began class in May , 1977 at the Guitar Institute of Technology ( G.I.T. ) in Hollywood . |
| 14 | So the first overseas brewery was built at Park Royal , London , in 1936 . |
| 15 | So the first hopeful sign of realignment coming out of Labour 's leadership election was when Bryan Gould espoused devaluation — and the first disappointment was how rapidly he retreated when John Smith 's camp let it be known that , in their eyes , this disqualified Bryan as deputy leader . |
| 16 | is that that the consultation is a problem the legislation which takes away the requirement for several developments to promote valuable time and be advertised prior to the application so the first most people knew about this application was after this this opportunity prior to that to discuss it with the development before it was submitted . |
| 17 | The intro locks with the kick , adding subtle fills in the first four bars . |
| 18 | Now click on the pencil icon and , using the appropriate colour , fill in the first three squares on both blank rows with colour one , the next three squares and two rows with colour two and so on . |
| 19 | In fact , although each volume was prepared under the ‘ haute direction de M. Camille Saint-Säens , the great man himself edited only the first five volumes exclusively the keyboard and chamber music and motets . |
| 20 | In a karate punch only the first two knuckles of the fist are used to strike the target area . |
| 21 | In fact , assuming that the time elapsing between a subject 's decision to respond and the actual pressing of the button was about 75 milliseconds , subjects on average identified the target after having heard only the first 200 milliseconds of it . |
| 22 | Up to 32 lines will be read and on each line only the first 20 characters are significant . |
| 23 | However , they went on to comment that the assumed riskless rate of 6 per cent in Part 1 of the results may have been an over estimate , as Part II shows only the first 2 factors to be significant while the fifth factor lost all explanatory power . |
| 24 | So had every other beautiful girl , of course ; but Jane Ashton was now not only the first beautiful girl Killion had kissed good night , she was the first to kiss him in return , and kiss him as if she had a great deal to give as well as take . |
| 25 | Those whose entitlement is established , however , will find that not only the first few pounds of some other form of income they have may be disregarded , but the value of a house they own or occupy is not counted as part of their income . |
| 26 | The single-cell layer of the wall will lie in such a way that it is in contact with the mother 's blood supply , burrowing into the capillaries ( thread-like blood vessels ) to obtain nutrition via the mother 's blood — only the first few days ' nutrition comes from within the blastocyst itself . |
| 27 | The measure is not only the first full-scale law passed by the Supreme Soviet in its new incarnation as a professional legislature . |
| 28 | The first is probably the one copied by the BBC Sound Archive in 1935 ; at any rate , it comprises only the first three sentences . |
| 29 | ( Recall Keynes 's retention of the ‘ real wage equals marginal product ’ principle , so that only the first marginal condition failed to hold in the General Theory model . ) |
| 30 | Vivian Endicott Barnett , ex-Guggenheim curator and author of the ongoing catalogue raisonné of Kandinsky 's watercolours , has put together the first major exhibition of the artist 's work on paper . |