Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [prep] [pron] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three times he recalled his favourite , Piers Gaveston , from an exile imposed on him first by Edward I and then by the barons ; the Ordinances , to which the king was sworn in 1311 and again in 1317 , he treated with contempt ; the expulsion of the Despensers , father and son , was reversed almost before it was enforced . |
| 2 | There is an enormous variety of good material available for primary children : this was demonstrated by the length of the list of authors published in our first Report . |
| 3 | With sufficient work completed for her first show , Vanessa had exhausted her theme and recovered her interest in the living . |
| 4 | Though outwardly quiet and unassuming , he had a steely determination and a passion for mountains fired by his first visit to Corsica with Mr. Stanley 's School party in 1964 . |
| 5 | He says he will have time enough to relax and carouse when he 's had a smash hit with his first novel . |
| 6 | It remains unclear to what extent the government and its advisers in the Department of Energy were aware at this stage , as the Hinkley C Inquiry progressed through its first few months , of the true state of nuclear economics . |
| 7 | ‘ That way there will be no complications of the sort created before our first sectional tie against Switzerland in Berne , when the absence of an England fixture meant a league game between Leeds and Manchester United being played for television 's benefit three days before the international . ’ |
| 8 | Eight years of isolation , broken only by the ‘ buying-in ’ of the 1986 Cavaliers and 1989 World XV tours , subsequently came to an end in Durban when the New Zealanders kicked off their first official tour on South African soil for 15 years . |
| 9 | ( The expression ‘ full moon ’ means the fourteenth day of the moon reckoned from its first appearance . ) |
| 10 | Valuable time was lost , the troops opposed to us were able to recover from the disorganization produced by our first attack , and the enemy was given the opportunity to bring up reinforcements . ’ |
| 11 | The band 's weakest ever single reached number 46 in the Gallup charts , an achievement supported by their first proper video in which they frolicked among hundreds of balloons . |
| 12 | even though they might be part and parcel of the same organization , they are not the leaseholders so they ca n't make the arrangements , so if they want to make the arrangement they must have the lease assigned to them first , then we will come to terms with them over land and to under le under let . |
| 13 | It 's hard to keep your eyes away from documents people beside you are reading on the train , especially when they are X/Open Co Ltd internal memoranda : the one seen by a Unigram.X spy at Lewisham , South London last week promised in its first paragraph ‘ a 0% payrise ’ for unfortunate X/Open employees . |
| 14 | To measure the accuracy of the prediction rule , our model was applied to another series of 28 cirrhotic patients admitted with their first variceal bleeding during the next period ( January 1989 to May 1990 ) . |
| 15 | All patients admitted with their first variceal haemorrhage were resuscitated and treated by urgent endoscopic sclerotherapy . |
| 16 | In a surprise result , Burundians voted in their first democratic election since 1962 to boot out their military president , Pierre Buyoya , in favour of a banker , Melchior Ndadaye . |
| 17 | Whilst the government claimed in its first consultation paper on the National Curriculum that it wished to ensure a broad and balanced curriculum for ‘ all pupils ’ , pupils with learning difficulties and disabilities were not specifically mentioned ( DES 1987 ) . |
| 18 | In 1973 , the US Army engaged in its first domestic operation since the Civil War when its forces , including armored cars , assisted heavily armed FBI agents in laying siege to the village of Wounded Knee . |
| 19 | In 1973 , the US Army engaged in its first domestic operation since the Civil War when its forces , including armored cars , assisted heavily armed FBI agents in laying siege to the village of Wounded Knee . |
| 20 | But some things are still the same ; the old yard near the farmhouse is still thereand the old barn covered with its First World War tin roof . |
| 21 | In the three Education Acts passed during their first nine years of power , the Conservative government has made parental influence and involvement a central issue . |
| 22 | A large roadside car park has been made and from it a track has been worn to the saddle on the ridge ; the steep climb has been helped by this path formed since my first visit . |
| 23 | There is , moreover , a move towards the paying party 's seeing your file and this makes it increasingly important for you to think carefully about the costs and uplift information contained in your first letter or standard terms of business appended to your first letter , and also the standard of time recording on which your bills are based . |
| 24 | There is little argument that , other than by the Augusta book , Tom Kite — the world 's all-time leading money winner , twice runner-up in the Masters , with only two cuts missed since his first appearance in 1976 , one of them last year — should have been in . |
| 25 | The villages were not where expected and a good morning 's walk passed before our first contact with people — an open-mouthed lad driving two cows up the path . |
| 26 | Thus the BDDA in the only resolution passed at its first Congress strongly affirmed its faith in the combined system as the best method of deaf education . |
| 27 | I believe that the lessons learnt from my first five years of trial and error could have been imparted to me in a few days by any half-decent panner . |
| 28 | Breakfast included on your first morning . |
| 29 | A pretty view of St Mark 's Cathedral by Sickert ( lot 16 , est. £30,000–40,000 ) , one of several versions dating from 1901 , was bought by Browse and Darby at the low estimate ( $45,900 ) , and Marlborough bought Stephen Conroy 's ‘ Kerngrove ’ ( lot 122 , est. £18,000–25,000 ) , a large figure painting shown in his first exhibition in 1989 , on behalf of a client . |
| 30 | To add extra sparkle to your stay , why not also add their romantic package of champagne & flowers in your room upon arrival and festive breakfast served on your first morning in the room at an additional cost of £46 per couple . |