Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] a first " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the football decider having ended in deadlock Carlow champions Eire Og and O'Donovan Rossa of Cork must meet again this afternoon at the Gaelic Grounds Limerick to decide which side lifts the prestigious trophy for a first time . |
| 2 | On top of that , scoring the third in the 3–1 win over the Sky Blues made him the youngest scorer of a First Division goal . |
| 3 | Treating cases of child sexual abuse as a first priority needs to be matched with improvements in planning which will permit practitioners to meet this service demand . |
| 4 | If the adventurers return to this room after a first encounter , the puppets ‘ remember ’ the events of the first meeting and will make suitably sarcastic comments . |
| 5 | In 1927 and 1928 , therefore , were planted the seeds of a cultural conflict between a first generation of intellectuals who had , like Barbusse , joined the party as a reaction to the sickening personal experiences of the First World War and who were above all else humanist and pacifist , and a younger second generation of Surrealists and Marxists who were more in tune with the sectarian Bolshevism advocated by Moscow . |
| 6 | The median delay before a first appointment during 1992 was nine weeks in the five clinics based in district general hospitals ( interquartile range 6–13 weeks ) and three months in the five clinics based in teaching hospitals ( interquartile range 7–18 weeks ) . |
| 7 | The European Commission has decided to send warning letters to the British government as a first stage in initiating legal proceedings over two alleged breaches of EC environmental legislation . |
| 8 | With one round to play , she was as many as three shots ahead of Australia 's Nadene Hall , a gifted girl playing on a British links for a first time . |
| 9 | The University envisages the development of Inverness College in this way as a first step towards a University of the Highlands . |
| 10 | Tickets are now on sale for another raffle with a first prize of more than £60 worth of CDs . |
| 11 | The most popular time for a first child is the third year of marriage ( 41 per cent ) . |
| 12 | At an early stage over 1500 copies of a first consultative document were circulated to teachers and others . |
| 13 | This gives a grand total of 30 out of 36 errors which could be corrected , by using simple algorithms as a first attempt before going into more complicated algorithms which may be impractical . |
| 14 | The US Office of Technology Assessment classified cobalt as a first tier strategic material , alongside chromium , manganese and the platinum group metals . |
| 15 | And Becker could hardly have landed a more dangerous floater with a first round match against compatriot Marc Goellner who , along with Karbacher , is part of the new wave of top German players . |
| 16 | Town had their chances against Barnsley , but their finishing looked somewhat second rate for a first division side pushing for a premier league place . |
| 17 | A survey of women in Massachusetts has found the average length of a first healthy pregnancy to be 41 weeks and 1 day , with subsequent pregnancies at 40 weeks & 3 days ; Black and Japanese women have shorter pregnancies . |
| 18 | Announcing storm-damaged figures and government plundering of its profits that left nothing over for investment , Deutsche Bundespost Telekom yesterday said that following its move to set up its cellular operations as a separate company as a first step to privatisation , it was also considering privatising the unit it has created to look after large customers . |
| 19 | Such an order permits a child to be held in secure accommodation for up to three months at a first hearing , and six months on renewal . |
| 20 | Few in a packed , drenched stadium would have bet on either outcome in a first half where England 's attacking approach was skidding and slipping off course while the bigger Boks dug in , drove hard and let the awesome boot of Botha do the rest . |
| 21 | No-one can hope to have a command of all these things at a first audition . |
| 22 | The amendments [ ibid. for details ] had been approved by the National Assembly at a first reading on May 13 by 398 votes to 77 with 99 abstentions , after the defeat of four Gaullist amendments to throw out the bill . |
| 23 | A new law introducing more stringent measures against racism and anti-Semitism was approved by the National Assembly in a first reading on May 3 , 1990 , and in a final reading on June 30 ( it was not considered by the Senate , which saw no need for textual revisions ) . |
| 24 | New faces are arriving all the time and in some cases actors make a quick start with a first job or they may have a relatively long wait before they get off the mark . |
| 25 | 3.1 Module descriptors which have been reviewed for session 1987–88 ( eg Music Making modules ) or which are being introduced in session 1987–88 for the first time are identified in the National Catalogue by a first digit 7 . |
| 26 | Start with a single piece of dried food as a first course and offer nothing more until it is consumed . |
| 27 | Practitioners use these medicines as a first resort , to promote the energy , circulation and vitality of the person , with the presumption that timely intervention at this stage may prevent later illness . |
| 28 | It claimed that ‘ The pooling of coal and steel production will immediately provide for the establishment of common bases for economic development as a first step in the federation of Europe , and will change the destinies of those regions which have long been devoted to the munitions of war , of which they have been the most constant victims ’ . |
| 29 | Many thanks for a first class mag , even if I do go green with envy at some of the kit ! |
| 30 | The seven-year-old started last season winning his first novice chase at Uttoxeter and by April had landed the Scottish Nationalan extraordinary performance for a first season steeplechaser . |