Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now and that 's for my benefit alone okay , what that means is that I 'll see each and every one of you in a , a role play so the first person in each role play will be Robert , Barry and Gareth , followed by Gill , , followed by Bill , Roger and Vincent and Robert again you do not deviate from that order . |
| 2 | The point of issue is that estuary and coastal zone management is a reality and what seems to be happening is all sorts of different plans are popping up on various estuaries and Geoff knows them well now because he 's been involved with the one on the Stour and Orwell and what is happening is that these are starting at local level so the first contact with sailors may be from a local authority or someone at local level . |
| 3 | However , in this case only the first reference to any descriptor appears in an index , while all further linkages are made from record to record ( rather as in a chain of synonyms in a direct file ) . |
| 4 | And very quickly talking about it amongst the staff and er the other committees it would seem that it ought to have a far broader remit than just on the racing side so the first thing that I 'd like to emphasise is that this year of youth sailing is involves all the outgoing grass roots divisions of the R Y A , that is windsurfing , racing , training and the development divisions and the regions and the clubs and the recognized teaching establishments , so it really is an all encompassing er er scheme . |
| 5 | And I do n't I think it is no accident that the seconds criterion is the second criterion not the first criterion . |
| 6 | Getting the paper work right the first time saves the customer being bothered with further questions . |
| 7 | To design any piece of audio equipment successfully the first stage is to define exactly what it is that you require and determine the circuit from this information . |
| 8 | Everything goes smoothly , the syndicate collecting their financial reward , until one day a man appears in the gallery where the first exhibition was held claiming to be Hopkin . |
| 9 | The miraculous moment of transmutation , when lead turns into gold , as it were , can be proven to have taken place at the precise second when the first buyer hands over his American Express card to add the foreskin of the Infant Jesus or a mummified fish from the Miraculous Drought of Fishes to his collection . |
| 10 | He had shot one grouse and was aiming at a second when the first bird hit him in the face at 60mph , flinging him unconscious into the heather . |
| 11 | Yeah it says , I read the thing and it says I have n't got ta let them in unless they 've got a warrant so the first time they come they would n't have a warrant , surely , so they 're gon na have to go away and get a warrant and in that time then I 'd have to get a licence would n't I ? |
| 12 | And at any moment now the first members of staff would be arriving . |
| 13 | To some extent , it was a repetition of the atmosphere early in the war when the first president , Bani Sadr , was at odds with many other senior figures and the clergy in general . |
| 14 | And it was a genuinely historic moment when the first tanks moved past the blocks of apartments in the Beirut suburbs , many of the buildings scorched and smashed by months of fighting . |
| 15 | It has a strange history and to understand it it is necessary to turn the clock back eight thousand years , to the moment when the first cats were being domesticated in the Middle East . |
| 16 | Tonight we camped at the site where the first Smith and Miranda expedition ended . |
| 17 | It was shortly after , during the Carboniferous period when the first reptiles appeared , that really massive tree-growth was achieved . |
| 18 | Train spotting had hardly become an attraction for the boys of the day when the first Easter excursion thundered through Balcombe Tunnel en route to Brighton . |
| 19 | I replied that I had watched my television all day when the first man stepped on the moon . |
| 20 | Dressed in the multicoloured jacket of his company ‘ team , ’ exhausted Daryn Swords said : ‘ I thought it was a hell of a day when the first rate rise came . |
| 21 | A week later the first steam and ash began to erupt from a newly formed crater on the summit . |
| 22 | A short ceremony to mark the move has been organised for 9am on Saturday morning when the first patient to cross the threshold of the new hospital will be handed a bouquet of flowers . |
| 23 | I must admit when I when I came in the door there the first thing I noticed was the peat smell . |
| 24 | You certainly appreciate life afterwards the first jump is terrifying , ’ said Jonny , one of four commercial operators in the UK . |
| 25 | The money there the first year was £6 a year ; the next was £8 ; and the third year when I come away it was £12 . |
| 26 | Right , first of all I 'd like to apologize for the fact that Alan 's report and my report especially the first half , are very similar . |
| 27 | since I am one of those people who do something the wrong way round , if there is the slightest opportunity , I also inserted the needle incorrectly the first time only spotting my mistake when I read on and found that I could not follow the next instruction if my needle was at the back of the work . |
| 28 | It was Addison , formerly President of the Local Government Board , but with its demise now the first Minister of Health , who introduced the programme which articulated Lloyd George 's election promise to the voters of Wolverhampton in November 1918 that returning soldiers should have ‘ homes fit for heroes ’ . |
| 29 | Employees in the leisure department have worked extremely hard to bring this prestige event to Stockton and we end up with a situation where the first person of the town is kicking us in the teeth . ’ |
| 30 | His main argument is that , without the guarantee of admissibility , there is no obvious reason why the first answer should not be amongst the least probable . |