Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On there you see it does say six o'clock Olympics today the first two runs in the four man bobsleigh , sport on Friday at two twenty five |
| 2 | Two years later the first noteworthy visitor arrived from overseas , Dr Paul Hermann , Professor of Botany at Leyden . |
| 3 | Three years later the first psychiatric clinics were held at Sighthill . |
| 4 | Exactly 40 years ago the first general practice health centre in Scotland was opened at Sighthill in Edinburgh . |
| 5 | Sixty years ago the first British guide dog led its blind owner through crowded streets with skill and devotion . |
| 6 | From the dawn of consciousness until August 6 1945 , man had to live with the prospect of his death as an individual ; since the day when the first atomic bomb outshone the sun over Hiroshima , he has had to live with the prospect of his extinction as a species . ’ |
| 7 | In a karate punch only the first two knuckles of the fist are used to strike the target area . |
| 8 | THE Army 's firepower gets a major boost this week when the first new self-propelled field gun for 30 years enters service . |
| 9 | Up to 32 lines will be read and on each line only the first 20 characters are significant . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ Arrangements have also been made to consult the judiciary about those discretionary life sentence cases where the first formal review has not yet been set , with a view to fixing the date as soon as possible . |
| 12 | The electoral rules also provided for a second round poll for county list seats in counties where the first round turnout was less than 50 per cent , and allowed for such a second poll to be valid provided that turnout exceeded 25 per cent . |
| 13 | In the eighteenth century when the first Industrial Revolution was born , the home was a place of work for both sexes , in farmwork , handicrafts and textiles . |
| 14 | All of this was so very different from the earlier period of Hebrew history when the first recorded occasion of a circumcision had as its central active character the woman Zipporah , and it puts in context the biblical passage , written at the time of the exile , with which this essay opened : Jerusalem , allegorized as a female in needy relation to her Lord and depicted as cleansed of her blood by the intervention of a male deity . |