Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [art] 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 | If your program needs to find an empty string the first time it is used , you can subsequently assign a null string to it . |
| 3 | I am not sure that I can give the hon. Gentleman the first information that he requested . |
| 4 | This was the most exciting News the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist had heard in years . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The overall structure The first requirement of clarity is a clear structure . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | PERSONAL VIEW The first casualty of political correctness |
| 13 | But when she entered the little kitchen the first thing she saw was the flowers . |
| 14 | The name of the local pub , Live and Let Live , seemed like a good omen the first time she drove past it . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | To someone like myself with a traditional physics-orientated education the first volume is a revelation . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ Dustin made extraordinary sense the first time he ever read the script . |
| 20 | Gary could remember with utter clarity the first time that some other kids had called him a Spade . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ We agree there has been a breakdown in communications but hope that from now on we can work together in an open and constructive manner towards our common goal a first class haematology unit run by a first class team of doctors and nurses . |
| 24 | WHAT A statistical thrill the first day of the fourth Test gave us ! |
| 25 | This marked a significant departure from previous foreign policy priorities which traditionally had made the Soviet Union the first place to be visited by a new Prime Minister . |
| 26 | On the other hand the first Chancellor of the University and two of the University 's chief benefactors , Harry and Melville Wills , each lived and died as plan Mr Wills . |
| 27 | In keeping with recent tradition the first contest in the nomination process was in Iowa , where both the Republican Party and the Democrats held caucuses on Feb. 10 . |
| 28 | Beginning in the forearc zone and moving towards the volcanic arc the first feature encountered is the trench which rises to the outer-arc ridge . |
| 29 | On March 26 , 1952 , they signed the agreement now sued upon which has three clauses : ‘ ( 1 ) the husband will pay to the wife for her support and maintenance a weekly sum of One Pound Ten Shillings to be paid every four weeks during the joint lives of the parties so long as the wife shall lead a chaste life the first payment hereunder to be made on the Fifteenth day of April 1952. ( 2 ) The wife will out of the said weekly sum or otherwise support and maintain herself and will indemnify the husband against all debts to be incurred by her and will not in any way at any time hereafter pledge the husband 's credit . |
| 30 | As soon as you shall have considered the whole subject the First Commissioner will be glad to receive from you probationary sketches of the Plans and Design generally , and he will then give you further instructions with reference to the future preparation of detailed plans , specifications and estimates . |