Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In SWDs and SSDs , it would be possible to accept the first definition almost unreservedly . |
| 2 | I was very interested to receive the first edition of Nonesuch and to read that its name was derived from a flower connected with the City of Bristol — as a member of a 17th-century dance team , I had only previously come across Nonesuch as the name of a dance . |
| 3 | We were both trembling with desire , afraid to make the first move . |
| 4 | Few do it better than Welshman Colin Jackson who was the pre-Games favourite to become the first Briton to win the Gold Medal in the discipline . |
| 5 | It is nearly always impossible to raise the first quote . |
| 6 | Any new student interested in joining the squad is welcome to attend the first training session on Wednesday September 8 , at the Dub playing fields , 2pm . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , how nice to be able to refuse , when most of us are glad to accept the first offer ! |
| 8 | Second they determine under what circumstances he is likely to answer the first question correctly . |
| 9 | There were a number of clues available to Robson : if West had still held the guarded queen of clubs he would almost certainly have kept and exited with his last spade ; if he had held both the king and queen of clubs he would have been equally likely to win the first club with the queen ; and , from what had happened so far , it looked as though West had started with more clubs than his partner . |
| 10 | THE Premier League yesterday came up with a peace formula that seemed likely to avert the first strike by English footballers . |
| 11 | ( To a first approximation , one is likely to encounter the first type if f is a little higher than f and the second type if f is a little lower than f . ) |
| 12 | On Saturday , Dave Ward 's Sunrays Cannon clocked 25.38 for the recently introduced 400 metres trip , while in Monday 's open races , Mona Wainright 's Sheffield-based Milebush Groovy became the first greyhound to win over the new 774 metres distance in 51.02 secs . |
| 13 | Once you get beyond its up to the minute good looks the first thing you 'll notice is that is price tag looks a little out of date . |
| 14 | Even though workers are prepared to accept a general reduction in the level of real wages , they are unwilling to take the first step of accepting money wage cuts in case other workers with whom they regard themselves as comparable fail to follow suit . |
| 15 | THIRD DIVISION Maidstone United became the first casualty club of the new season yesterday — and the fear is more could follow . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , Wesker was struck by another ( albeit minor ) disaster : Teomi was not able to attend the first day of rehearsals because Wesker had forgotten , when writing his schedule , that it was also Yom Kippur . |
| 17 | We can say with certainty that we would be able to mount the first kind of display ; but at the moment we can not be so certain about the travelling display which , although the more attractive proposition , has much more significant resource implications . |
| 18 | I 've been lucky to be able to launch the first concept of dread disease insurance , in South Africa you might have heard about us . |
| 19 | We might thus be able to provide the first step in assisting a school to maximise any award which it receives . |
| 20 | The postponement of the opera ( it eventually opened on 13 January ) meant that Nannerl , who reached Munich on 4 January 1775 , was able to hear the first performance . |
| 21 | I hope will be happy to read the first lesson . |
| 22 | So one has to actually learn erm an entirely new alphabet before even being able to read the first word on the first page that you see in the archives . |
| 23 | so I wo n't be able to pay the first payment cos , you know ai n't got no money . |
| 24 | So I wo n't be able to pay the first payment cos you know I ai n't got no money . |
| 25 | It was another good example of why the sooner it is possible to delay the first round of the World Group matches so that there is more than a full week between them and the first Grand Slam tournament of the year , the better . |
| 26 | Only two months after Sotheby 's Holdings Inc. posted a first quarter loss of $5.7 million ( £3.2 million ; compared to $5.2 million a year earlier ) and following pretty dismal results for 1991 ( profits were 86% down from 1990 ) Alfred Taubman , chairman and largest shareholder , is selling 8 million of his 21.9 million B shares as part of a larger transaction . |
| 27 | Those weeks , not seeing him , wondering , too proud to make the first move . |
| 28 | She left the pickup door hanging open to examine the first line of trees . |
| 29 | However , it is nice to see a first Swede , Joakim Haeggman , making history as one of the three wild cards , along with Spaniards Seve Ballesteros and Jose Maria Olazabal . |
| 30 | It is his show in Paris which attracts hoards of fans ( some of whom are hardened fashion journalists ) all keen to catch the first glimpse of Thierry 's latest creations . |