Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Auxetophone also permitted the first disc-copying to take place . |
| 2 | Another constable now joined the first and the chairman was getting fidgety . |
| 3 | I do n't know whether that will actually happen , because Guild really have the first option , but I was hoping there 'd be a way that we could cooperate and perhaps Eggle could do the British end of it . |
| 4 | For example Bowling Festival Week in Eirias Park usually held the first full week in August offer £2,000 in prize-money . |
| 5 | The activity of this membrane enzyme thus provides the first control step in the prostaglandin pathway by limiting the availability of arachidonic acid substrate ( Figure 5.2 ) . |
| 6 | Mains thus became the first ( and I am afraid , only ) rugby man who ever considered I knew anything about the game . |
| 7 | Gilbey quickly became the first person Diana turned to when the pressures of her life and marriage became too much . |
| 8 | An Ulster pipe band yesterday became the first band in the United Kingdom to win six major competitions in a year . |
| 9 | But whether all this back-to-the-future stuff is the final , futile , heroic twitch in the corpse of pop music bludgeoned near to death by metal and techno , or whether this instinctive return to flamboyance and sexual ambiguity really signals the first stirrings of a full-scale revolution , the fact is that 1992 desperately yearns to be 20 years younger and ‘ Back In Denim ’ is New Glam 's most articulate manifesto so far . |
| 10 | The Department of Transport today stages the first of three exhibitions on the route for the new £38m dual carriageway due to be built between Malton and Seamer . |
| 11 | None the less , important foundations were being laid in the period immediately following the First World War . |
| 12 | This week arguably saw the first real skirmishes of that impending struggle for succession : the sub-text of set-piece deliveries by Sir Geoffrey Howe , Kenneth Baker , Michael Heseltine et al . |
| 13 | The exhibition also represents the first showing of works by Olga Rozanova and reveals her as a very substantial painter who clearly made a crucial contribution to the Russian Avant-garde : the paintings are stunning , both in scale and conception , and the unusual colour contrasts are highly original . |
| 14 | Not only does Italy-Brazil represent many people 's ideal coupling for next summer 's World Cup final in Rome but this afternoon 's game also marks the first occasion the two countries have met since that afternoon seven years ago in Spain when the Italians dismissed Falcao , Zico , Junior et al , 3-2 on their way to winning the 1982 World Cup . |
| 15 | The Iron Age also produced the first evidence of polled cattle in Britain . |
| 16 | Last year the Yorkshire Water Authority tentatively began the first stage of a £150 million programme to eliminate the worst coloured waters from such towns as Huddersfield , Halifax , Bradford and Sheffield . |
| 17 | Those who expected the election to lead to a radical change in domestic policy certainly found the first two years of the Kennedy era disappointing . |
| 18 | In short course in-shore racing the first beat is the most important leg of the race . |
| 19 | She had a primly censorious mouth above a slightly receding chin already showing the first slackness of a dewlap . |
| 20 | ATORY MP yesterday made the first admission that the Government does not know whether children from poorer backgrounds will be put off higher education by the introduction of top-up loans , writes Celia Weston . |
| 21 | When it comes to considering legislation , as in managing his Department , the Minister soon faces the first test of the statesman : the reconciliation of political ideology and opinion to the demands of sharply practical situations . |
| 22 | OBJECTIVITY ALSO HAS THE FIRST OBJECT DATABASE FOR WINDOWS NT |
| 23 | As North later described the first approaches to the Iran idea , Israeli officials talking to Americans in the spring and summer of 1985 , it was a ‘ philosophy ’ rather than an operation . |
| 24 | A team at St Mary 's Hospital Medical School recently identified the first gene involved in a form of Alzheimer 's disease , the main cause of dementia in the elderly . |
| 25 | Note that LIFESPAN only checks the first three items ( Issue identifier , Product identifier/title , Client identifier/title ) and inserts missing titles or identifiers once you have entered information for all three items . |
| 26 | The alternative vision is the one that I subscribe to , and along with me , most historians in this country and in America , and indeed increasingly erm a young generation of German historians , and this is that things began to go wrong well before nineteen fourteen , and that the Germans in fact deliberately started the First World War as the Treaty of Versailles said they did , that nineteen eighteen was not therefore the beginning of the evil , but merely a hiccup in erm a German attempt to conquer Europe , erm as it were , a play with two acts , the first act being nineteen fourteen to eighteen , and then the second act being nineteen thirty-nine to forty-five , two attempts to dominate the continent of Europe by military force . |
| 27 | The starting pulse also triggers the first delay circuit , which delays the pulse for a time , during which the motor moves to the first phase switching position . |
| 28 | The second help screen partly overlays the first and shows a proposed convention for colour abbreviations which can be used for describing the lure type . |
| 29 | ‘ He took me to his hotel for dinner then spent the first half of the evening trying to get me drunk and the second half trying to get me upstairs . ’ |