Example sentences of "[adj] to the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I also spoke to the chief investigator of the Senate committee , who said that he had taken a large amount of information about this to the first secretary of the British Embassy in Washington , but the British government had hampered any further investigation . |
| 2 | And watch Humberside , fresh to the First Division , who scored 134 goals in their eight Autumn Trophy games . |
| 3 | Well that 's going free to the first person to ring us on three double one , one double one with the answers to these three questions , listen carefully . |
| 4 | It starts as for Ziggerat , climbs direct to the first roof , pulls through this and continues up the steep wall to the next roof which is passed by very difficult bridging . |
| 5 | The opening instrumental to the first track Do n't Look Down reminds me of Les Paul and his legendary recording tricks . |
| 6 | Next row : Similar to the first decrease row ( see point 13 ) . |
| 7 | Here was a film akin to the first pictures from the moon but with a difference . |
| 8 | We need to encourage as many schools as possible to shift from the third to the second , and from the second to the first category . |
| 9 | We will assign any node j for which or is basic to the first generation and say that the parent of j is 1 , writing P(j) = 1 . |
| 10 | Once again , now it does n't matter which way round you start , you can start left over right or right over left , but the second time you do it opposite to the first time , so the first time I put the left one over first and the right one over that and then tuck it through , just like tying a shoe lace really , okay ? |
| 11 | ‘ Give these to the first person you come across , introduce yourself and see what happens , ’ she advised him , then set off on her own to the kitchen . |
| 12 | ONE SOURCE of solace to the so far disappointing New Zealand tourists , who have a last chance at Leeds tomorrow to silence the doubters prior to the first Test next Saturday , must be the rate at which Great Britain 's best players are falling by the wayside . |
| 13 | ‘ Sam Velerisms ’ , as they were called , which became the basis for ‘ Sam Wellerisms ’ , were famous in the period 1831–6 , just prior to the first publication of The Pickwick Papers . |
| 14 | Now the Big Daddy of them all … the astonishing revelation that the Georgians had attempted to bribe Turkish match officials prior to the first leg game . |
| 15 | Georgian federation president Nukri Kakilashvili said on Saturday the club would be contesting the allegations that officials bribed the referee and linesmen prior to the first leg game between Tbilisi and Linfield in Georgia nearly three weeks ago . |
| 16 | They rejected the Georgians ' argument that the 5,000 dollars given to match officials prior to the first leg game was legitimate expenses and reinforced the judgement that Tbilisi be expelled from this season 's competition and the next one they qualify for . |
| 17 | A Corporate Finance Engagement Letter should be obtained from every client for whom corporate finance activities are to be undertaken prior to the first engagement . |
| 18 | ( N.B. ‘ formal ’ modification does not apply to the initial versions of the software which , prior to the first approval , are classified as ‘ development ’ versions . ) |
| 19 | 8.2 In the event of the Publisher making any payment to the Authors or the Company prior to the first accounting date such payments shall be treated as an advance on royalties unless otherwise agreed in writing . |
| 20 | It would be a prime requirement that the airspeed and behaviour at the stall be determined prior to the first landing . |
| 21 | That struggle shaped Germany for the subsequent two centuries and it also determined much of the shape of Europe prior to the First World War . |
| 22 | In the twenty years prior to the First World War there were numerous incidents of football hooliganism . |
| 23 | Prior to the First World War unrelieved hostility towards the Jews , which expressed both obsession with their alleged power and ascribed to them filthy moral and personal habits , was rare . |
| 24 | During the decade prior to the First World War there was some discussion of proposals for the state maintenance of children . |
| 25 | The German scheme of cheap overnight accommodation dated from the years prior to the First World War and had its origin in the central European tradition of ‘ wanderlust ’ . |
| 26 | In Britain , conflict was most severe prior to the First World War , when the power to call out the police and troops lay in the hands of local employer/magistrate , and occasions like the General Strike of 1926 when fears of a worker revolution were aroused . |
| 27 | Okay , erm , before the First World War , agriculture 's share of world trade was over fifty percent , a half of our , of all world trade prior to the First World War was agricultural products , alright . |
| 28 | WITH THE SUDDEN ENDING of the War the aircraft industry was thrown into chaos , but there was a renewed interest in a £10,000 prize offered by the Daily Mail in 1913 to the first pilot to fly across the Atlantic . |
| 29 | In 1889 , the miller was the aptly named Mr T. Miller , and between 1897 to the First World War , Frank Parry . |
| 30 | Married to the first man who asked you , and I bet you 've never even thought of being unfaithful , even with that hunk Martin hanging around . ’ |