Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The firebox and boiler of No. 3822 were equally packed out too , as WSR Driver Dave Williams and Fireman Gareth Winter had the engine just right for the first four-mile assault on Crowcombe Bank . |
| 2 | Quote of the Buxton Conference came from American Paul Piana , whose audio-visual about the first free ascent of the Salathe Wall on El Cap proved to be a masterpiece of comedy . |
| 3 | France , Germany and several other members , stressing its ( more active ) peacemaking potential , saw this as the first major concrete step towards developing the WEU as the " defence component of the European union " as outlined in the Maastricht treaty [ see p. 38658 ] . |
| 4 | The fact that I had not done so put me too high for the first available field , but with insufficient height for the next one . |
| 5 | The fact that O'Keeffe was so well-known in her time makes it even more astonishing that we have had to wait until 1993 for the first major European show of her work . |
| 6 | As half of the first full-time two man drug squad in the North-East of England , I was tasked with defining and dealing with the new social aberration of ‘ flower power ’ , ‘ the counter culture ’ , and the ‘ psychedelic trip ’ . |
| 7 | Bull has already revealed details of its Integrated Systems Management effort , based around the Open Software Foundation 's Distributed Management Environment , and is now working on some of the first practical applications to run on top . |
| 8 | Some of the first newly-planned settlements were established by Victorian industrialists themselves , but a long process of government legislation culminated in the passing , between 1945 and 1950 , of comprehensive Town and Country Planning legislation , including provision for New Towns and National Parks but also a characteristically negative policy toward the expansion of cities themselves . |
| 9 | With a dry wit and an infectious Brooklyn drawl , Karen , as part of the Flatbush-based Soulboys group of club-runners , was responsible for some of the first illegal parties in New York , as well as having the much-coveted job of doorperson at various Manhattan clubs . |
| 10 | Both were headed by Prof. R.B. Le Page , who had produced some of the first linguistic studies of Jamaican Creole about twenty years previously ( Le Page 1961 ; Le Page and De Camp 1960 ; Cassidy and Le Page 1980 , originally published 1967 ) . |
| 11 | The show illustrates in two large sections the period from the election in 1024 of the first Salien king , Konrad II , to the death in 1125 of his great-grandson Emperor Heinrich V. The first , introduced by historical maps of the period , illustrates the everyday life and working environment of people of different social strata . |
| 12 | On a collision course are Onslow 's — who started the fleet sailing in 1985 with the first specialised sale — and Christie 's South Kensington . |
| 13 | APR 1993 At the first TOP Surgery Allan Paterson met team leaders to find out first hand the progress of their teams . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , two hundred years after Charles 's death , the inhabitants of the lands he had once ruled were identified as Kerlinger , Carlenses : " Charles 's men " ; and in the thirteenth century , when King Louis IX arranged at St-Denis the tombs of the kings who had preceded him , he left two in positions of special honour , the Merovingian Dagobert , greatest of the First Frankish dynasty , and Charles the Bald . |
| 15 | The ‘ Fresh Start ’ Motions gained even more significance when over 1,000 representatives to the Conservative party Conference signed a petition supportive of the first Parliamentary Motion . |
| 16 | The high mortality of infants born to young mothers and , consequently , that of the first born babies may be explained , at least partly , by their birth weight . |
| 17 | Yet the caress of his meaning was delicate as the first green fronds of spring . |
| 18 | Life was n't easy for the first Italian immigrants . |
| 19 | Rehearsals for important premieres , such as the first Polish performance of Shostakovich 's Fourteenth Symphony at an inaugural concert of the Warsaw Autumn , could take many weeks . |
| 20 | The high point of his BBC career was the opening in 1929 of the first dual transmitter high-power section in Brookmans Park , near London . |
| 21 | CENTRAL TO THE FIRST REFURBISHED ‘ Denon ’ Savoy release are five discs devoted to Charlie Parker ( 1920–1955 ) — ‘ core repertoire ’ for all enthusiasts of jazz in the second half of the 1940s , from whence all these recordings ( if not the actual compilations ) come . |
| 22 | If the latter 's optical axis is parallel to that of the first crystal than the beam is totally transmitted , if it is perpendicular to the first optical axis none of the beam gets through . |
| 23 | Goran Hadzic , leader of the Serbian enclave of Western Slavonia , was elected by 230 votes with six abstentions as Babic 's replacement in Borovo Selo on Feb. 26 at the first joint session of the assemblies of Serbian Krajina , the Autonomous Region of Western Slavonia , and the Serbian Region of Slavonia , Baranja and Western Srem . |
| 24 | By 1882 , Edison 's system of generating power in a central power station , changed industrial methods almost as much as steam had brought about the industrial revolution , and by 1885 the first internal combustion driven machine had appeared , to be followed in 1894 by the first recognisable motorcar . |
| 25 | BRITAIN 'S Damon Hill ( above ) , making his Grand Prix debut in the second Williams , was fourth-fastest in the first qualifying session for tomorrow 's season-opening South African GP at Kyalami . |
| 26 | Diploma holders who attain a satisfactory standard may register with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland , and will be exempt from the first level examinations . |
| 27 | However , in Amphioplus there is a more or less superficial second papilla next to the infradental papilla which is homologous with the first oral tentacle scale . |
| 28 | In November the same label issues The Damned 's ‘ New Rose ’ , hailed by many as the first true punk single . |
| 29 | Among Sikhs , for example , many of the first male immigrants arrived in the 1950s , by the 60s they had been joined by their wives and children and by the 70s many of them had brought their elderly parents . |
| 30 | The first self-service store opened in Croydon in 1952 with the first edge-of-town store appearing in 1972 . |