Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That turns the first part of the system off , ’ she explained . |
| 2 | Lady Arran , who in 1980 became the first person to top 100 mph in an offshore power boat , set the world speed record for an electric boat at just over 50 mph . |
| 3 | You 've each won the first prize in our June competition of a Rohan Shearwater Gore-Tex jacket and pair of the company 's famous walking trousers , Rohan bags . |
| 4 | In SWDs and SSDs , it would be possible to accept the first definition almost unreservedly . |
| 5 | Then , when the first priest arrived , he wanted to live in Tala-Tala near the kirk , so this became the first hospital , and this , ’ he almost kicked the battered old trunk , ‘ became the first filing cabinet . |
| 6 | The Labour Party claims that this represents the first stage in a policy of full market rents . |
| 7 | The discoverer — reputedly Ingolfur Arnarson after whom a fine peak near Þingvellir and Ingólfshöfdi is named — called the country ‘ Iceland ’ because of the ice he found there ; this created the first half-truth about the islands of the north . |
| 8 | This establishes the first part of the theorem . |
| 9 | I was very interested to receive the first edition of Nonesuch and to read that its name was derived from a flower connected with the City of Bristol — as a member of a 17th-century dance team , I had only previously come across Nonesuch as the name of a dance . |
| 10 | Map 12 shows the first floor of the Castle , and Map 13 shows the higher floors of the Great Tower . |
| 11 | The International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) on June 30 released the first tranche worth US$647,000,000 of a US$2,200 million standby credit approved in September 1991 [ see p. 38439 ] . |
| 12 | for direct processing the track index does not make it clear which records are in overflow and which in the prime data area ; this prevents the first overflow record being retrieved as quickly as is achieved in the two-entry index system — at least while it is the only overflow record . |
| 13 | This meant the first change of name for the young Michael Smith ; he became known as Ingram , and there was no love lost between him and his stepfather . |
| 14 | The big scroll in the frieze between Pope Calixtus II and the Emperor Henry V contained the first words of the text of the Concordat of Worms of 1122 , with the rest of the text to be found elsewhere in the hall . |
| 15 | 18–7 James McDonald , a servant at Islay House , asked for baptism for his child and this brought the first case of antenuptial fornication . |
| 16 | The capture of Côte 304 represented the first breach in the ‘ Line of Resistance ’ that Pétain had prescribed on taking up his command , and with it the stage was set for the final German attack on the Mort Homme , with the elder Falkenhayn once again in command . |
| 17 | In effect this represented the first retreat from Marxism 's prohibition on private ownership of the means of production since the abandonment in 1928 of Lenin 's New Economic Policy ( NEP ) . |
| 18 | This represented the first time that all five states had agreed on all aspects of ending the Cambodian conflict . |
| 19 | This represented the first acknowledgment by the government that a rebellion was taking place . |
| 20 | This provokes the first nation into developing a 10-megaton bomb , which in turn provokes the second into making a 20-megaton bomb , and so on . |
| 21 | If you are prepared to pay the first £50 of all claims * yourself , you will be entitled to a premium discount which is normally one sixth of the new premium . |
| 22 | And , if you are prepared to pay the first £50 of any claim yourself , the basic rate is only £1.25 per £1,000 . |
| 23 | But , if you are prepared to pay the first £50 of any claim yourself , you will be entitled to a discount — normally 50p per £1,000 of insurance . |
| 24 | If you are prepared to pay the first £50 of all claims yourself , you will be entitled to a discount on your premium . |
| 25 | If you 're willing to pay the first £100 of any claim , your premium will fall by a further 10% . |
| 26 | From this follows the first point : the existence of illegal concert parties is enormously hard to prove . |
| 27 | When Norman recruited Sir Ian McGregor , this marked the first time in Britain that a nationalised industry chief had been appointed through executive search . |
| 28 | This marked the first launch of its kind in China . |
| 29 | today this becomes the first railway shadow franchise , its operations hived off into a separate company ready to be sold . |
| 30 | WHILE the list is not empty take the first pair { x , y } from the remainder of the list and |