Example sentences of "[noun sg] [subord] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recollettas our Spanish investment paid off handsomely , profits more than doubled and Marker is er , the seven day a week sports paper , is now the er second biggest paper in Spain and has a higher readership than the first paper . |
| 2 | ( v ) The prisoner is then informed of the date for the first review , and that this is three years less than the tariff if the first review is to be held less than 17 years before the date of his sentence . |
| 3 | Lois Forer , a judge and former assistant Pennsylvania attorney general , expects that the decision on the Barnes tour will encourage donors to include ‘ gift over ’ provisions in their bequests , allowing gifts to pass to a second institution if the first recipient of a donation violates the restrictions placed on gifts . |
| 4 | The Ferrers family pedigree is woven into a silk pennant thirty feet long , a complicated lineage because the first Earl had twenty-seven legitimate children and a reputed thirty bastards . |
| 5 | It is the second criterion because the first step is to reject the alternatives . |
| 6 | This ability of DNA to cut and splice , to jump in and out of chromosomes at the drop of a hat , is one of the more exciting facts that have come to light since the first edition of this book was published . |
| 7 | So too , to a lesser extent , do the herbaceous plants of the bush ( 9000 species in Western Australia alone ) , which stood belly-high to a horse when the first Europeans arrived in the late eighteenth century . |
| 8 | The second defendant damaged the same part of the car as the first defendant . |
| 9 | Small wonder that there was high glee within the Command when the first sortie to Flensberg was such a debacle , due in the main to weather . |
| 10 | Security guard Stan Murray was at an office car park entrance when the first bomb went off . |
| 11 | Clouds were moving across the far north-west of the landscape as I got to the cave , and I 'd just reached the mouth when the first drops of rain spattered on the stones at my feet . |
| 12 | Haitians of all political persuasions scattered in panic when the first shells , and even cannonballs , began to hit . |
| 13 | Solicitor David Gamble was arriving for work when the first bomb exploded . |
| 14 | The organizers , loudhailers in hand , were corralling the crowd into marching formation when the first group of skinheads appeared . |
| 15 | The second point of considerable interest is that this court case provided the first occasion anywhere in the world where a sign language interpreter was appointed by a court to assist in the questioning of , and providing answers from , a deaf person . |
| 16 | They did n't loosen and begin converging around the dead buffalo cow until the first flock of ragged black vultures flopped clumsily onto an outcrop of rock on the grassland fifty yards away . |
| 17 | Day 7 ) Camped at site where the first jetstream was spotted in 1956 . |
| 18 | This is only a bar to registration if the first mark is registered in respect of " the same goods or description of goods " . |
| 19 | Its sound provided the first syllable of Poirot 's name ‘ poir ’ , and for the second one need look no further than the French word ‘ perdreau ’ , meaning ‘ a young partridge ’ . |
| 20 | The author notes the importance of the ‘ Demoiselles d'Avignon ’ exhibition at the Musée Picasso , Paris and ‘ Picasso and Braque : pioneering Cubism ’ at MOMA which took place since the first edition and have resulted in a number of amendments to this version . |
| 21 | Sir I will take this on board , but I think it comes rather badly from an authority in fact both authorities which have so shown so many confusing changes of mind about this area in the whole process since the first plan was issued , that the er details of the consideration by one of the constituent bodies of this erm objection er should be er examined er in such detail . |
| 22 | To return to the problem of how to continue the theme after the first phrase is formed : the simplest solution is to repeat the first phrase exactly as it is . |
| 23 | On the evening after the first letter appeared , 14th February , the Institute held a Special General Meeting to ratify the Council 's recommendations for prizes and awards , which included one that the Institute 's highest award , the Royal Gold Medal in Architecture for 1858 , should be conferred on Scott . |
| 24 | Stephen Whiteheadof Whitehead & Partners , another school fees specialist , recommends various savings options depending on the period before the first school fees fall due . |
| 25 | They had walked past the cottages and were half-way down the hill when the first drop of rain fell . |
| 26 | They had reached the landing when the first door in the corridor opened and out stepped a man who seemed to have no connection with the boy Andrew Jones , for here was a handsome , well-built and tall man , and he was naked except for a small towel tucked round his waist . |
| 27 | In preparing my speech I recalled ( as the reader also may ) the occasion during my first watch in Tartar when the first lieutenant had shown me the various instruments on the bridge , and that when I asked why one had a canvas cover , he had said , ‘ Oh , that 's the Mountbatten station-keeping gear , and we keep it covered because the captain finds it quite useless . ’ |
| 28 | For species actually to act with a sense of past and future history would be a far more radical departure than the first land creature crawling out of the sea . |
| 29 | For example , a comparison instruction might execute the next instruction if the first operand is high , skip one instruction if the operands are equal , or skip two instructions if the second operand is high . |
| 30 | TT race organisers said the ferry crash was only a minor setback because the first race does not start until tomorrow afternoon . |