Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] the first [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | The overall structure The first requirement of clarity is a clear structure . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | PERSONAL VIEW The first casualty of political correctness |
25 | But when she entered the little kitchen the first thing she saw was the flowers . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | 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 |
28 | The name of the local pub , Live and Let Live , seemed like a good omen the first time she drove past it . |
29 | From point-blank range the first bullet hit him in the stomach , doubling him up as it punched a hole just to the left of his navel , ploughing through intestines before lodging close to his spine . |
30 | In Egyptian mythology the first ruler had been the god Re , the creator , who brought with him in the person of his daughter , Maat , the concepts of truth , justice and the order of nature and society . |