Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two years later the first noteworthy visitor arrived from overseas , Dr Paul Hermann , Professor of Botany at Leyden . |
| 2 | Three years later the first psychiatric clinics were held at Sighthill . |
| 3 | Exactly 40 years ago the first general practice health centre in Scotland was opened at Sighthill in Edinburgh . |
| 4 | Sixty years ago the first British guide dog led its blind owner through crowded streets with skill and devotion . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | THE Army 's firepower gets a major boost this week when the first new self-propelled field gun for 30 years enters service . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |