Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year The Mary Whitehouse Experience became the first TV programme to be reported to the Broadcasting Standards Council after a derogatory sketch about Going For Gold star Henry Kelly was shown . |
| 2 | At about 2.15 , someone from the Cardiff side threw the first stone , then the bricks started flying : if they could n't get at each other on land , then they could always fight a missile war and there was plenty of ammo flying around : the workmen who put the fence in had not swept up the chunks of broken concrete around the supports . |
| 3 | Gary Stretch makes the first defence of his British light- middleweight championship against Rochdale 's Derek Wormald at the London Arena tonight , knowing it could lead to a lucrative world title eliminator against Leicester 's Chris Pyatt . |
| 4 | The Boipatong massacre became the first major hurdle which rugby had to overcome and this led to the implementation of All Black and Wallaby tour conditions such a the minute 's silence prior to each test , the display of peace and democracy signed at match venues and in match programmes , the non-playing of national anthems and the removal of any official flying of the South African national flag . |
| 5 | Last year NEC Corp launched the first wireless PC . |
| 6 | The leading positions in the four divisions of the Bootle Snooker League after six weeks of the new season see Liverpool Billiards and Snooker Club leading the first division with 24 points from Corals ( 22 ) and Corals B team ( Bootle ) on 18 from four completed matches . |
| 7 | Whether the startling but short-lived explosion of punk rock represented the first sign of a new situational fracture ( new production methods ; ‘ outrageous ’ music ; independent operations ) , or the last twitch of the moment of ‘ pop culture ’ ( a rerun of rock 'n' roll do-it-yourself amateurism ) , or a less organic , conjunctural tremor ( like hip hop , ‘ charity rock ’ , Bruce Springsteen , Billy Bragg and many more ) is difficult to say . |
| 8 | Furthermore , if the three numbers beneath the Early Reply Bonus Seal match the first three numbers of your Early Reply Bonus Code , and you reply within 14 days , you will automatically qualify for the chance to double the £50,000 first prize to £100,000 . |
| 9 | In addition , should the three numbers beneath the Early Reply Bonus Seal match the first three numbers of the Early Reply Bonus code , the entrant will also be eligible to win an additional £50,000 , should they reply within 14 days , and win first prize . |
| 10 | Your listening to the Fox Report ; sport , and last night , Oxford United Football Club won the first leg of their second round clash with Port Vale in the Rumbelows League Cup . |
| 11 | for 3rd arts south Celebrating the first steps of a maestro . |
| 12 | In 1956 , too , a Spaniard , albeit an exiled Republican Spaniard , Juan Ramón Jiménez , won the Nobel prize for literature and Spain was the protagonist of another , undoubtedly more popular , cultural event : on 13 June 1956 the Real Madrid football team won the first European Cup championship . |
| 13 | The Olympic silver medallist faces the first two finishers in the 1500 metres at the UK Championships , Enfield 's Steve Crabb and Paul Larkins of Nene Valley Harriers . |
| 14 | Phourni 's Tholos ‘ A ’ had its main chamber robbed in antiquity , but in 1965 the side chamber yielded the first untouched high-status burial of Minoan Crete . |
| 15 | Hambro Countrywide 's shares soared 7p to 36p on Hill 's bullish comments , boosting its market value by nearly 25% , as the stock market savoured the first piece of good news about housing for a long time . |
| 16 | Paul Trollope the ex Swindon boy got the first which highlighted the holes in the Hereford defence . |
| 17 | With Granby Village conveniently situated in the City centre close to shops and local amenities , it provided an ideal start for a shopping spree to spend the first part of the prize — £100 in cash . |
| 18 | Garston Snooker League are now approaching the half way stage with Woolton Village Club leading the first division with 23 points from eight games closely followed by Mossley Hill Legion ( 22 ) . |
| 19 | Last month a 12-year-old Devon girl became the first in Britain to win an order allowing her to live with her grandparents . |
| 20 | The home team dominated the first half , although both defences looked solid . |
| 21 | The former Northern Ireland champion won the first frame 71-45 but McCluskey took the second 57-37 and it seemed as though the Ulsterman was in for a tough fight . |
| 22 | The peace treaty ending the First World War remained unsigned by Germany six months after the eleventh hour of the eleventh day in the eleventh month of 1918 . |
| 23 | The England star takes the first step towards his long-awaited comeback in an A-team game this afternoon , five months after suffering a career-threatening Achilles injury . |
| 24 | This second image reinforced the first . |
| 25 | The Derbyshire professional dropped the first frame , but then won five of the next six . |
| 26 | On Feb. 25 the South Korean government announced that the authorization granted to the Daewoo conglomerate to become the first South Korean group to invest directly in the North had been suspended . |
| 27 | The border-opening debacle and the wave of mutual recrimination which it engendered appeared to threaten the tentative July agreement to hold the first ever summit between the Premiers of the two Korean states in Seoul , the South Korean capital , on Sept. 4-7 . |
| 28 | Is the hon. Gentleman aware that the Home Office received the first application from Oxfordshire only last week , on 5 December ? |
| 29 | Philip Brannon 's charming drawing of the FORT AT PEVERIL POINT shows the first pier ( 1859 ) in the background . |
| 30 | BISHOP KONSTANT donned a hard hat on a building site to cut the first turf for a new £1.2 million hall of residence at Trinity and All Saints , Horsforth , a College of the University of Leeds . |