Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The motion , tabled when the government invoked a technical measure to pass the first reading of the 1993 budget without a division , failed when the Communist Party ( PCF ) deputies once again refused to back it , saying that they would not vote with the right . |
| 2 | With very few exceptions , judges are required to be selected from amongst practising barristers and it is difficult for anyone without a private income to survive the first years of practice . |
| 3 | It was presented , to Darlington Harrier Andy Campbell , when the race was established as an open event in 1904 and given to Duncan McLeod-Wright to keep when the Scottish runner became the first man to win three times , in 1929 . |
| 4 | To the passengers in the skies over the Atlantic drinking free champagne to celebrate the first anniversary of Virgin Atlantic , oblivious to all the dramas which had unfolded to keep them airborne , it probably would have seemed a bargain . |
| 5 | The study draws together the results of five years ' work by the investigator and the findings of the ESRC 's extensive research programme in this field to provide the first comprehensive account of central-local relationships in the UK for nearly twenty years . |
| 6 | Morgan , and one a German , Georg Siemens — put together the French theory of entrepreneurial banking and the English theory of commercial banking to create the first successful modern banks , J.P . |
| 7 | Local types were beginning to be noticed , and in 1709 the English parliament passed the first of a series of Enclosure Acts which , indirectly , would lead to breed development by curtailing the traditional practice of communal grazing and random mating . |
| 8 | Any higher level processing must begin with orthography , hence this study forms the first part of a contextual system . |
| 9 | But Kevin Keegan 's team are still 12 points in front and their good-looking football dominated the first half and the last 20 minutes . |
| 10 | As the conflict between Milosevic and the FRY intensified [ see below ] , the Serbian delegation boycotted the first meeting in Zagreb on Oct. 12 of the committee set up under the Sept. 30 agreement to normalize relations between Croatia and the FRY . |
| 11 | This chapter uses the first measure to give an outline indication of how big a part credit , overall , plays in consumer spending , and how that has changed over time . |
| 12 | I have made few attempts in this chapter to give the first references to ideas or discoveries . |
| 13 | Simons claims that this work provides the first reliable description of how an animal virus enters the cell and initiates infection . |
| 14 | This conference provides the first opportunity in West Belfast itself for the unemployed , community groups , local business people , policy makers , managers and administrators of employment and training schemes , funders , careers teachers , trade unionists and others to discuss present and future employment prospects of people living in West Belfast . |
| 15 | This canon marks the first and crucial step to the creation of ‘ patriarchates ’ , a dignity soon to be shared by Constantinople ( founded 330 ) and Jerusalem , giving the Greek East four patriarchates to the West 's one . |
| 16 | Mr Parsons looked down at me at last , and I could see a different embarrassment replacing the first as he met my ironic eye . |
| 17 | March 7th was one of the most momentous days in British sport during the last 50 years and , when our English team achieved the first back-to-back Grand Slam in almost 70 years , we are snatched away to watch highlights of Scotland v France . |
| 18 | The sixteenth edition contained the first of the Phoenix schedules . |
| 19 | ‘ We have trained the nurse caring for this infant to recognize the first signs of desire for food . |
| 20 | This announcement represented the first explicit US endorsement of an offensive military option . |
| 21 | Fittingly the local-born lad took the first spot kick which completed the first leg of what could see the city 's two clubs meet for the first time in the last four . |
| 22 | The means by which he had got this cadetship proved the first strand in a complicated web that snared him at his trial for treason . |
| 23 | The hon. Gentleman quoted the first paragraph of AMMA 's report . |
| 24 | I am not surprised that the right hon. Gentleman avoided the first point , because the report to which my hon. Friend the Member for Poole ( Mr. Ward ) referred produced the following answer within the Labour party : ’ Some argue it will highlight one of our weaker points ’ . |
| 25 | The hon. Gentleman mentioned the first ; in my original answer , I showed how we intend to work towards it . |
| 26 | Their postcards and T-shirts sell by the crateload , they 've done cover art for Marc Almond , Erasure and Boy George — and yet this month sees the first ever UK exhibition of their work ( including ‘ The Gipsy ’ , right ) . |
| 27 | This had been floated in 1948 by the clothing establishment as a discreet gentleman 's fashion harking back to the golden days before ‘ socialism and formica ’ , but had been quickly coopted and camped up by the gay underground ; the more exaggerated aspects of this style caught the first Edwardians ' eye and , together with the Western Look that pervaded their favourite culture , American cowboy films , it formed the first youth style proper . |
| 28 | Next year , the younger son of this old man became the first of five Richard Goughs to live at Newton on the Hill , a mile or so from Myddle church . |
| 29 | This report provides the first direct evidence for expression of P3A + variant mRNA in human thymus . |
| 30 | In 1930 the Royal College of Public Health started the first family-planning courses for physicians . |