Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first paragraph , for example , comes from p. 10 and the second from p. 13 ; and all the connections Leech and Short make between these pages have been lost , with the result that it is not clear how the first paragraph leads to the second paragraph . |
| 2 | Now Noel Kehoe senior is preparing a new group of youngsters for another shot at the Fred Daly on September 12 when the first leg of the final against Clandeboye will commence at City of Derry . |
| 3 | Tension was high on the morning of April 10 when the first Spitfires arrived over the field . |
| 4 | The UK not only remained the second largest source , after the USA , for foreign direct investment , but increased in importance after 1979 when the first Thatcher government abandoned most controls on the foreign exchange of sterling currency . |
| 5 | ‘ During the Bronze Age — 2,500 to 750 BC the first metal objects appeared in Wimbledon . ’ |
| 6 | A third group were followers of Karadjordje , who fled in 1813 when the first revolt was crushed . |
| 7 | An unprecedented sporting contact between the two Korean states occurred on Oct. 11 when the first round of the North-South Korean Unification Soccer Matches was played in Pyongyang before a crowd of 150,000 . |
| 8 | In the morning we visit the Visitor Centre at Killiecrankie , site of the famous battle of 1689 when the first shots were fired in the Jacobite cause . |
| 9 | In 1964 too the first pirate , Radio Caroline , hove to in a ship just outside UK territorial waters off the Thames Estuary . |
| 10 | Such stories abound and are important in that often the first thing that needs to be broken in us is pride , fear of men and the need to be in control . |
| 11 | A number of these countries are those where the first stages of industrialisation — the establishment of heavy industry and low cost manufacturing of relatively low added value products — are well underway and a firm base of markets within the industrialised world has been established . |
| 12 | The reign of the ocean-going liners ended in 1958 when the first jet service crossed the Atlantic . |
| 13 | Thus it came about that sealed bids were invited , to be opened by the treasurer at 1 pm. the first day of the Sale . |
| 14 | The current I to V system has existed since 1961 when the first grade Vs were climbed by the likes of Patey , Marshall and Smith . |
| 15 | Thermoluminescence has had a major impact on the antiquities market starting from about 1970 when the first tests were made in Oxford . |
| 16 | From about July 1988 to March 1989 inclusive the first defendant entered into transactions with members of the United Kingdom investing public who paid out money thereunder in return for shares in Euramco as appears from the entries for that period in the schedule annexed hereto . |
| 17 | BETWEEN 1945 , WHEN the war ended , and 1956 when the first Reichmann son , Edward , appeared in Canada , Samuel engaged in a programme of frenzied European activity , the purpose of which was to gather together the early Reichmann millions . |
| 18 | Indeed , even by February 1989 when the first meetings with Jones took place , where Jones was claiming to see neutrons — a sure sign of fusion — Fleischmann and Pons were seeing only heat . |
| 19 | This company formed in 1889 began boring for water in 1890 when the first buildings were erected , and by 1892 most of the village had been connected to its mains . |
| 20 | Dress code : Adidas tracksuits and shells ( fat laces , of course ) Kangols and Westwood Buffalo hats ( which were quite silly enough the first time round as far as we 're concerned ) . |
| 21 | Oh it was horrible not the first time . |
| 22 | Should the strings become entwined then the first protagonist to shout ‘ Strings ! ’ had strike and so the conker bashing went on until one split . |
| 23 | Indeed , dead fetal tissue did not become a subject of contention until 1988 when the first results of treatment of people with Parkinson 's disease using fetal adrenal glands were announced . |
| 24 | Following in the footsteps of advertising agencies who gained great riches and new respectability when many became publicly quoted companies , public relations as a business " came of age " in the early 1980s when the first consultancy went public on the Unlisted Securities Market . |