Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Companies in future will be able to write off against taxes only the first $1 million of what they pay any director or executive . |
| 2 | Now and that 's for my benefit alone okay , what that means is that I 'll see each and every one of you in a , a role play so the first person in each role play will be Robert , Barry and Gareth , followed by Gill , , followed by Bill , Roger and Vincent and Robert again you do not deviate from that order . |
| 3 | The point of issue is that estuary and coastal zone management is a reality and what seems to be happening is all sorts of different plans are popping up on various estuaries and Geoff knows them well now because he 's been involved with the one on the Stour and Orwell and what is happening is that these are starting at local level so the first contact with sailors may be from a local authority or someone at local level . |
| 4 | However , in this case only the first reference to any descriptor appears in an index , while all further linkages are made from record to record ( rather as in a chain of synonyms in a direct file ) . |
| 5 | And very quickly talking about it amongst the staff and er the other committees it would seem that it ought to have a far broader remit than just on the racing side so the first thing that I 'd like to emphasise is that this year of youth sailing is involves all the outgoing grass roots divisions of the R Y A , that is windsurfing , racing , training and the development divisions and the regions and the clubs and the recognized teaching establishments , so it really is an all encompassing er er scheme . |
| 6 | We have n't got to the reselling stage with these yet because we 've been going about six months so the first resale is eighteen months away . |
| 7 | And I do n't I think it is no accident that the seconds criterion is the second criterion not the first criterion . |
| 8 | And they gave thanks when the first buds appeared in spring . |
| 9 | The men are now looking forward to Saturday when the first Challenger tanks arrive ; it 's these that 'll play a key role in any ground battles should war become unavoidable . |
| 10 | Getting the paper work right the first time saves the customer being bothered with further questions . |
| 11 | To design any piece of audio equipment successfully the first stage is to define exactly what it is that you require and determine the circuit from this information . |
| 12 | Everything goes smoothly , the syndicate collecting their financial reward , until one day a man appears in the gallery where the first exhibition was held claiming to be Hopkin . |
| 13 | The miraculous moment of transmutation , when lead turns into gold , as it were , can be proven to have taken place at the precise second when the first buyer hands over his American Express card to add the foreskin of the Infant Jesus or a mummified fish from the Miraculous Drought of Fishes to his collection . |
| 14 | He had shot one grouse and was aiming at a second when the first bird hit him in the face at 60mph , flinging him unconscious into the heather . |
| 15 | Right facing this way Simon can you turn round as well please , Robert Right the first game very easy , I 'm going to point to somebody , we 're going to go through the alphabet , they 're going to give me the name of an animal . |
| 16 | Yeah it says , I read the thing and it says I have n't got ta let them in unless they 've got a warrant so the first time they come they would n't have a warrant , surely , so they 're gon na have to go away and get a warrant and in that time then I 'd have to get a licence would n't I ? |
| 17 | Eight days later the first Duke of Wellington was calling on her with reports of a coming clash : the king 's desired divorce from Queen Caroline . |
| 18 | A link-up with the western end from Kalgoorlie was finally made on October 17 , 1917 and five days later the first passenger train completed the historic crossing . |
| 19 | Ed. note : Two weeks later the first commode was delivered to Maria Frantzia . |
| 20 | Two years later the first monuments were taken into care , and many more followed . |
| 21 | The field was discovered in 1974 and 10 years later the first gas flowed ashore . |
| 22 | And at any moment now the first members of staff would be arriving . |
| 23 | 4 weeks ago the first trident nuclear submarine rolled out from the Barrow shipyard with hardly a headline and still less protest . |
| 24 | ‘ Several weeks ago the first hint was given . |
| 25 | Seven years ago the first Hôtel Formule 1 opened in France . |
| 26 | Nearly a thousand years ago the first settlers made the Glemmtal valley their home , and ever since they 've made a point of extending a warm welcome to all-comers . |
| 27 | To some extent , it was a repetition of the atmosphere early in the war when the first president , Bani Sadr , was at odds with many other senior figures and the clergy in general . |
| 28 | And it was a genuinely historic moment when the first tanks moved past the blocks of apartments in the Beirut suburbs , many of the buildings scorched and smashed by months of fighting . |
| 29 | It has a strange history and to understand it it is necessary to turn the clock back eight thousand years , to the moment when the first cats were being domesticated in the Middle East . |
| 30 | It seemed cold , back in that old house in Wickrithe where the first years of her life had been spent . |