Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] 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 | ‘ It 's funny , ’ says Brian , ‘ they 're both so like my own kids that we often say the stork must have dropped them in the wrong homes the first time around . |
| 3 | If your program needs to find an empty string the first time it is used , you can subsequently assign a null string to it . |
| 4 | I am not sure that I can give the hon. Gentleman the first information that he requested . |
| 5 | This was the most exciting News the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist had heard in years . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The overall structure The first requirement of clarity is a clear structure . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | PERSONAL VIEW The first casualty of political correctness |
| 14 | But when she entered the little kitchen the first thing she saw was the flowers . |
| 15 | Glenmuir , which has become synonymous with top quality golfwear , is offering exclusive to Golf Monthly readers the first prize of tickets for two to this unique spectacle , held this year from the 25th to the 29th of September . |
| 16 | In the case of skilled jobs , the initial approach was made by telephone , and for white-collar jobs the first approach was by letter . |
| 17 | The name of the local pub , Live and Let Live , seemed like a good omen the first time she drove past it . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | To someone like myself with a traditional physics-orientated education the first volume is a revelation . |
| 21 | When you are looking for insurance cover or considering the renewal of an existing policy the first thing you should consider is who to insure through . |
| 22 | ‘ Dustin made extraordinary sense the first time he ever read the script . |
| 23 | Gary could remember with utter clarity the first time that some other kids had called him a Spade . |
| 24 | It is when this mass of dancers divides and moves to the sides that the open space available for dancing is exposed fur the first time . |
| 25 | It might be argued that the test procedure is thus shown to be at fault , since in all the above cases the first element can be shown to have a clear semantic function relative to the second element : in fact , it signals a sub-variety of the general category denoted by the second element . |
| 26 | Following a general election the first task of the new legislature was to choose the country 's President and Vice-President from amongst its four at-large senators . |
| 27 | I saw it twice , the second time to see what I 'd missed through racked sobs the first time . |
| 28 | For steady mean conditions the first term of eqn ( 19.20 ) is zero , but it indicates the physical significance of the equation ; in view of the summation convention and so each term in the equation represents some process tending to increase or decrease the kinetic energy of the turbulence . |
| 29 | After the class they treated themselves to lunch , cold poached salmon the first day and the best cut of cold beef the next , and wine to go with it , and a raffle amongst the six of them for a bottle . |
| 30 | And the next night the backdrop was ‘ A Night in Spain ’ , and there was Stella II , it was his very first night , all done up in black and gold lace with an underskirt of violent red , a red Elizabeth the First wig for some reason and a real red rose , it was sensational , and it was his first night too , Stella II doing ‘ Te Amo ’ till the tears ran down his face . |