Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The entry for the case was located in the birth register and the first preceding and the first succeeding entries were selected who matched the case with respect to sex , date of birth ( plus or minus six months ) , district of birth registration , and family health services authority of the child 's first general practitioner . |
2 | MAGIC ITEMS : Azhag may carry up to three magic items in total but the first magic item he has must always be the Crown of Sorcery . |
3 | It began very early in September and has really come to an end today with the last of the leaves falling overnight and the first serious snow on the mountains . |
4 | Indeed , in 1949 Michel Debré , a leading Gaullist and the first prime minister of the Fifth Republic , had called for a ‘ union of European states ’ that would improve upon the limitations of the Council of Europe . |
5 | So we have to move from old structures to new but the first new government of South Africa will be a compromise in itself because it will be a united government but it will inherit not a post-apartheid state as many academics and politicians tell us it will inherit a nil-apartheid state and that is a very big difference we still have to move to the post-apartheid situation which could take decades . |