Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The broadcasting ‘ liberalization ’ phase under ‘ Chaban ’ had ended : the broadcasting law of July 1972 had distinguished between the state monopoly of radio and television broadcasting and the public organization ( ORTF ( entrusted with the monopoly ; the same law increased — on paper — the autonomy of ORTF and the powers of the ‘ MD ’ who became in addition chairman of the board of directors ( 'PDG' ) ; but conflicts arose between the first ‘ PDG ’ , Arthur Conte , and the Information Minister , Philippe Malaud . |
| 2 | Most cases occurred in the first 48 hours of detention ( until July 1988 Austrian law allowed detainees to be held incommunicado for 48 hours ) . |
| 3 | Unfortunately heavy losses occurred during the First World War with all four being sunk . |
| 4 | Their goals came in the first half , Scot Sammy Johnston opening his account for the club and |
| 5 | The allegations of drug-taking sessions came on the first day of Murray 's trial before Lord Kirkwood . |
| 6 | It has been shown , for example , that levels of violence during industrial disputes fell in the first three-quarters of this century , but that this trend has been reversed more recently ( Geary , 1985 ) . |
| 7 | A third of a million Frenchmen died in the first five months … |
| 8 | It was in 1851 that the Great Northern Railway established its locomotive works in Doncaster , and twelve years later the amalgamation of a number of railway companies led to the first regional monopoly , the North Eastern Railway , this business being engineered mainly by George Hudson , the ‘ Railway King ’ . |
| 9 | Those Roebuck penalties apart , the only other scores from the Australians came in the first half , when strapping winger Damien Smith barged his way through two tackles to notch the game 's only try . |
| 10 | State socialism has not been very successful in transferring technology between countries , and has brought its own kind of exploitation ( as the Yugoslavs discovered in the first few years after the war ) . |
| 11 | The number of gold articles hallmarked in the first three months of this year fell by 12 per cent compared with the same period last year , according to the Assay offices . |
| 12 | From local origins — Station KDKA in Pittsburgh — the transmission of radio broadcasts grew to the first national network , the National Broadcasting Company ( NBC ) of 1926 , closely followed by the Columbia Broadcasting Company ( CBC ) in 1927 . |
| 13 | Pawson has pointed out that in building the canals , British engineers had for the first time " to grapple with large scale civil engineering problems " . |
| 14 | Electricity companies sparkled for the first part of the year . |
| 15 | At Hunstead Park from May nineteen eighty nine until May nineteen ninety , both parents stayed for the first week and thereafter supported the plaintiff in taking her back for home visits , every weekend plus a week at Christmas and Easter . |
| 16 | McCord 's revelations led to the first crack in the united front amongst Nixon 's officials . |
| 17 | Rich raw smells of tar , rotting excrement , spices and brine rose up along with the sight of ship masts , looped sails , small boats beached on the first mud of the receding tide , sailors in striped breeches and greasy caps leaning on the wooden railings , others arm in arm on their way to the taverns , piled kegs and crates , winches , the last of the horsedrawn sleds and — a gathering knot of people beyond a bonded warehouse . |
| 18 | For example , in 1979 nearly half of all divorces occurred within the first 10 years . |
| 19 | Stock boats came on the first day , they start coming away in May . |
| 20 | At least seventy three percent of all foetuses aborted in the first trimester are male . |
| 21 | Nearly a third of the principal carers complained at the first interview about the adverse effects of looking after the dementia sufferer upon their own physical or mental health . |
| 22 | Dealers emerged from the first day 's sale of the Blackmer library gasping at the high prices . |
| 23 | The revelations emerged on the first day of the World Indoor Championships in Toronto , representing the worst possible news for beleaguered international athletics officials coming hot on the heels of the repeat Ben Johnson scandal . |
| 24 | Within the EEC de Gaulle 's efforts led to the first summit meetings of the Six since the Community began , in Paris in February and in Bonn in July . |
| 25 | The independence of the people 's committees was not ultimately compatible with communist rule in north Korea and problems occurred in the first few months of communist dominance . |
| 26 | Our problems started on the first pitch . |
| 27 | United 's problems started in the first half when Brentford went ahead with a freak a fluke goal from Gary Blissett … that knocked the stuffing out of them … |
| 28 | The floods started in the first week of February , killing at least 230 people and sweeping away farmland , roads , irrigation networks and power lines . |
| 29 | I 'd not done an adaptation before and my fears grew with the first reading of the book , simply because of the enormity of the task . ’ |
| 30 | But it hardly looked a bet as the Reds struggled in the first half in face of fluent football , much of which was inspired by Chelsea player manager Glenn Hoddle . |