Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [art] first [noun] " in BNC.

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1 By a strange coincidence the first ditching I heard about was in No 77 Squadron in the early months of the war .
2 In this case the first layer Ni atom is well imaged , but not the second layer Ni atom .
3 LIFESPAN RDBI will encrypt this password the first time the data transfer program is run .
4 He had already been to quite a number of shows where he competed in halter classes ; but this wag the first occasion where he was ridden in a saddle class .
5 ‘ I fell in love with this place the first time I saw it .
6 At this point the first contingent of Bachad children was sent off to their own training centre , Gwrych Castle , in Wales .
7 At this point the first disturbance broke out in one of the galleries , with groups of men and women starting to chant " Fascism means murder : Down with Mosley " .
8 If your program needs to find an empty string the first time it is used , you can subsequently assign a null string to it .
9 I am not sure that I can give the hon. Gentleman the first information that he requested .
10 ‘ I have made up my own mind where I want to go and I spoke to Frank Clark this morning the first time for a fortnight .
11 This was the most exciting News the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist had heard in years .
12 I certainly do n't , because erm , according to this policy the first thing the Russian people have got to put up with is a high level of unemployment .
13 Ignore this warning the first time LIFESPAN RDBI is run .
14 THE Royal Ordnance Factory at Leeds yesterday delivered to the British Army the first production version of the Challenger tank , less than three years after the Ministry of Defence ordered the vehicle.The army is receiving more than 200 Challengers , costing about £300 million , to beef up its defences in Germany against Soviet tanks .
15 Given the small size of the LOB corpus and the reliance on the OALDCE to supplement this information the first equation is safer .
16 In this situation the first entry relating to the sales is clear as we reduce the sales by £600 and reduce the bank account by £600 in respect of the refund .
17 But in this year the first year of the project , because it will be towards the end of the year anyway it has no revenue , net revenue effect .
18 By this time the first Pan American Mystère 20 had been delivered to the PAC facility at Burbank for outfitting .
19 Also at this time the first boreholes to be commissioned by the Survey in Scotland were drilled .
20 In this context the first reactions of Europeans to the reality of the native inhabitants of the Americas is of particular interest , for here , in a very explicit sense , experience and fantasy were brought face to face .
21 To his absolute delight the first trap had held what must have been a seven pound salmon , plus a couple of mullet which he had ignored .
22 Thus it was that a young cosmochelonian of the Steady Gait faction , testing a new telescope with which he hoped to make measurements of the precise albedo of Great A'Tuin 's right eye , was on this eventful evening the first outsider to see the smoke rise hubward from the burning of the oldest city in the world .
23 The danger and the extra effort needed to shoe a colt for the first time was recognized by a custom called in some districts of East Anglia by the term First Nail which presumably referred to the violent shock the first nail would give to the colt .
24 In the imperial affair the first person to act on behalf of the pope was Monaco de Villa , a Milanese , who had been appointed by Otto as plenipotentiary to deal with the pope .
25 The overall structure The first requirement of clarity is a clear structure .
26 In 1928 the opinion of the crews was sought about the enclosing of drivers ' platforms with a vestibule , and in the following year the first car was enclosed .
27 PERSONAL VIEW The first casualty of political correctness
28 But when she entered the little kitchen the first thing she saw was the flowers .
29 Odd — I 've never dreamt about Cal , even though we 've been friends ever since we sat next to each other the first day I walked into that school .
30 I know she were , she were brick shit she were , I said to Lyn I said I 'm bloody sure , I could have actually , she , she were nearly eating out of my arm , in them last few weeks , I 'll tell you , ooh the encouragement I got about the driving ooh I ca n't do it Lyn and when I comes in that day the first test I had she 'd made a great big fucking cake
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