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 Getting the paper work right the first time saves the customer being bothered with further questions .
6 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 .
7 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 ?
8 And at any moment now the first members of staff would be arriving .
9 A week later the first steam and ash began to erupt from a newly formed crater on the summit .
10 I must admit when I when I came in the door there the first thing I noticed was the peat smell .
11 You certainly appreciate life afterwards the first jump is terrifying , ’ said Jonny , one of four commercial operators in the UK .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 ’ .
16 In that year also the first Boulestin restaurant was opened in Leicester Square .
17 A few weeks later , the exportation of Jews from Minden in Westphalia provoked reported mixed reactions from the local population , ranging from sympathy for the Jews to outrightly nazified comments thanking the Führer for freeing the people of the plague of Jewish blood , claiming that had it been done half a century earlier the First World War would not have been necessary , and including rumours that the Führer wanted to hear by 15 January 1942 that there were no more Jews in Germany .
18 On my way there the first morning I noticed that Nelly 's house had a ‘ To Let ’ sign in the window .
19 Consequently , you fall over or jack-knife forwards the first time you land heavily .
20 In another case we have managed to eliminate the first galley stage completely The first setting is now carried out at the first page proof stage and even this will save around £50,000 per year — more than the cost of the entire system .
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