Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | And of course Oxford supporters do n't need reminding that last season they led Fulham 1-0 after the first leg and they lost 5-3 at home . |
| 2 | The enormous cost of the war — 10 times that of the First World War — created a large Federal government deficit , but the new-found wealth of the country was sufficient to fund it . |
| 3 | The point is that regular-interval sampling makes every case dependent upon the first choice and so each individual unit does not have the same chance of being sampled . |
| 4 | That would leave the afternoon free for the first walk-around rehearsals where the Director would begin working out his cast , camera and microphone boom movements . |
| 5 | GREAT BRITAIN 'S team of Mark Petchey and Chris Wilkinson yesterday beat Czechoslovakia 2-1 in the first round of the European men 's team tennis championships in Trieste , Italy . |
| 6 | That covenant specifies the rent payable for the first five years . |
| 7 | There is a minor triumph for British tennis when Jo Durie , Clare Wood and Anne Hobbs beat Indonesia 3-0 in the first round of the Federation Cup in Tokyo . |
| 8 | Arfur — played by actor George Cole — first referred to his long-suffering wife as ‘ Er Indoors back in 1979 in episode three of the first series . |
| 9 | ONE SOURCE of solace to the so far disappointing New Zealand tourists , who have a last chance at Leeds tomorrow to silence the doubters prior to the first Test next Saturday , must be the rate at which Great Britain 's best players are falling by the wayside . |
| 10 | The famous Chapter 5 of the first book , which deals with the transformation of labour from a stage where it is a ‘ part of life ’ to a stage under capitalism when it takes on the imaginary form of a thing separate from the labourer , when it can be bought and sold , is worked out in Formen , in the discussion of tribal , oriental , and ancient societies which it contains . |
| 11 | Britain 's current-account deficit shrank to £192m ( $377m ) in February ; the 12-month visible-trade deficit fell below $30 billion for the first time since mid-1988 . |
| 12 | Overall turnover rose 8.3 per cent in the 53 weeks to 2 January to top £1 billion for the first time . |
| 13 | Pre-tax profits soared from £21.4 million to almost £32 million and the company joined Iceland Frozen Foods yesterday in announcing turnover that topped £1 billion for the first time , jumping from £920 million to £1.05 billion . |
| 14 | The training camp was a KGB operation , probably under the auspices of Department 8 of the First Chief Directorate . |
| 15 | There were n't any houses then and there was a big ditch where the canal side and erm we used to have to wait for each other , because no street lamps , nothing at all like that and er really we used to be afraid and then when the first bus ran , shall I tell you this , when the first bus ran from , from Bloxwich to Willenhall of course word got around that the buses were beginning , because the roads were only ruts , they were n't tarmacked roads then and it was certainly gentlemen first for the first there were about three hundred waiting that was a lot of at the top is it Street , I think it 's that and all the gentlemen were first but we , some of us managed to scramble on , but erm then they used to break down very very often because the roads the roads were in such a terrible condition they were only ruts . |
| 16 | The uncertainty of the fat child or the onset of puberty which can make swimming baths one of the first circles of hell for the adolescent , so vividly evoked by Kathryn Ensall 's ‘ Girls in Line at the Swimming Baths ’ ( 1988 ) , or the terrifying prospect of the first day at school captured by Shanti Panchal are all expressions of modern sensibility and above all , of childhood and adolescent anxiety , constructed out of an acute embarrassment with themselves and their situation . |
| 17 | New nominations will be submitted by the Thursday , under the same procedure and with the same arrangements for consultation as described in paragraphs 4–9 for the first ballot , both for the original candidates if required and for any other candidates . |
| 18 | Polish exports , made more competitive because of the decline in real wages and the lower value of the zloty , rose by 12.5 per cent to $6,880 million in the first half of 1992 . |
| 19 | According to the latest figures , they would be required to contribute £132.6 million in the first year of council tax after it was introduced in April . |
| 20 | According to the latest figures , they would be required to contribute £132.6 million in the first year of council tax after it was introduced in April . |
| 21 | PROFITS of Central TV jumped from £3.4 million to £15 million in the first half of this year . |
| 22 | Dexter parked the car next to the first telephone kiosk they chanced across on the way back to Reading . |
| 23 | A 1-0 win keeps Swindon second in the first division . |
| 24 | Adrian Whitbread says the players have made him feel very welcome and he has settled in well … although he was a bit nervous for the first game on Saturday … he says Town are a good team and he 's looking forward to playing for them also on parade for pictures today … |
| 25 | This was followed on 1 July 1893 by the first all-corridor trains in the UK : three new trains of six coaches each , used on the West Coast route to Scotland , two in service and one in reserve . |
| 26 | Cedar health Limited are offering a 500ml bottle of Equi-Strath free to the first five readers who write |
| 27 | From an initial 700 in the first season , bookings rose rapidly to 26,000 by 1931 . |
| 28 | Falcon will send children to Florida free for the first time , Martyn announced savings of up to £105 on its Greece and Cyprus brochure and SunMed is offering seven nights in Corfu for just Pounds 99 . |
| 29 | The Collective State Presidency , excluding the Slovene representative Janez Drnovsek , met on July 4 for the first time with Mesic as President [ see p. 38275 ] . |
| 30 | Such intervention was given its most potent fillip in July 1916 with the first National Conference on Old Age Pensions ( NCOAP ) . |