Example sentences of "[verb] the [adj] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was not told which chick was in which group until we had completed the entire first series of experiments ( this is our normal lab practice — where possible , especially when two of us are involved in the experiment , to run the work ‘ blind ’ until after the data are analysed , to avoid the possibility of unconscious bias ) . |
| 2 | It is independent of the quality process but , in retrospect , would make the ideal first step in instituting a management system which is also a quality system . |
| 3 | Early the following month General Dibich led the Russian First Army into the Congress Kingdom . |
| 4 | An invitation for CLOTHES SHOW readers to attend the EXCLUSIVE FIRST NIGHT of Europe 's Premier Event |
| 5 | Mr R. Melbourne of Loughborough wins our first £25 award by asking you for a list of those clubs who have won the old First Division title and also played in the Fourth Division . |
| 6 | Judith Mellor stood , unwittingly , between Antonia and her dreams of becoming the smiling First Lady of Number 10 . |
| 7 | The value covers the 22 first team squad members and 15 young professionals . |
| 8 | She entered the spacious first chamber . |
| 9 | For the most part though , Flor unfolds the massive first movement with an ideal blend of spaciousness and momentum . |
| 10 | The flying forward scored the all-important first goal for Spartak and created a second for Andrei Piatnitski with three minutes remaining . |
| 11 | ONE ELEGANT RELIC hardly describes the superb first prize that awaits the winner of our April competition but it is the correct answer to the anagram posed and wins that same prize for Lesley Allen of Hartshill , Stoke-on-Trent . |
| 12 | All of us in the team knew that we were totally dependent on the Lord for any ‘ success ’ — but it was still reassuring at each crusade when Walter would murmur to me as he surveyed the huge first night crowds — ‘ Well , Harvey , that 's your job safe till the next one . |
| 13 | I used to argue in the nineteen sixties that Britain should become the fifty first state but I 'm not so sure about that . |
| 14 | A state entrance was under a porte-cochère on the Downing Street side which led to the suite of reception rooms occupying the entire first floor of the northern wing . |
| 15 | Laurie Mains , the former Otago and All Black fullback who nursed Otago to win the national first division championship last winter , has already been named as coach of the All Blacks in place of the unavailable Alex Wyllis . |
| 16 | Continuing to use the unchanging first part of the sentence , the different endings could be : lotus flowers ? … pyramids ? … whisky ? … tulips ? … shamrock ? … chopsticks ? … tomahawks ? … clogs ? … coffee ? |
| 17 | ‘ The most nerve-wracking moment , ’ recalls Nicola Wright , ‘ was when we discovered the live First World War German mortar bomb , which cousin Charles had brought home as a souvenir . ’ |
| 18 | He spent the entire first week reading the plan over and over again . |
| 19 | The Leonardo drawings alone would have made a fine exhibition , although not one to fill the entire first floor of Palazzo Grassi . |
| 20 | Can we not do more even than we 're doing at the moment to restore to the centre of the life of the church the glorious concept of a team of pastoral care and a high command of power strategy in which dominance by ministers will be reduced to the minimum in order that together we may be ready to let the lifeblood of Christ flow through us in such a way that we will be better able to welcome the twenty first century in his name . |
| 21 | You can spot the modern first edition collector : it is he who sifts assiduously through a pile of the new Martin Amis searching for the copy whose corner is not bumped , only to reject it because the alignment of the dust-wrapper ( not jacket ) on the spine is very slightly askew — but he does n't want that copy either because of the biro indentation on the lamination , and the nineteenth copy would have been OK had the rear cover not been soiled . |
| 22 | Call the inaccessible first thing in the morning or last thing in the evening , when their ‘ oppos ’ may not be there . |
| 23 | The finest hotels in the world all share the same first name . |
| 24 | These fifty or so gifts , of which some twenty are known to have survived , constitute the true first edition of 1865 . |
| 25 | Finally after unnecessary cries of ’ Get on with it ’ , they continued the brief first set with yet another track from the album , Tin Drum ; during which Toni tried for an audience call and response . |
| 26 | He beat to take the coveted first prize in a hard-fought battle at the Sneyd Arms , Sneyd Green . |
| 27 | All started later than the network companies and missed the dreadful first year . |
| 28 | However , following the successful first round in July , the three-day talks were generally regarded as disappointing . |