Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] that the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | At half-past ten , the sound of voices below the library window indicated that the first lesson of the day was over and that coffee was about to be served . |
| 2 | But the new Queen 's champion admitted that the first meeting ever between the two players dominated by heavy serves and containing few spectacular winners was a poor spectacle for a 6,000 crowd which included Princess Diana . |
| 3 | The battle was fought out in three short Parliaments which met between 1679 and 1681 , after which politics was driven out-of-doors for the rest of the reign , whilst during the period of the Tory Reaction a successful campaign of legal recriminations taken against the political enemies of the Court meant that the first Whigs as a political movement were almost destroyed . |
| 4 | She wanted to do this on her own and the therapist suggested that the first session took place 2 days later to assess her progress . |
| 5 | The court held that the first defendant 's negligence was a cause of the death and he was held 25% responsible . |
| 6 | The Middlesbrough Cycling News recorded that the first ‘ Smoker Night ’ was to be held ‘ in honour of one of its achievements in the cycling events . ’ |
| 7 | Secretary reported that the first set of four photographs had proved to be very popular and sales to date had covered costs . |
| 8 | Although the government reported that the first four days of the war had cost Britain £100m in ammunition and equipment , the cost is so far proving light for Mr Average . |
| 9 | Remarkably , Halifax 's performance meant that the First Division leaders Wigan , 66-0 winners in a 12-try romp at Barrow , were not the day 's top scorers . |
| 10 | Accordingly he submitted that if the jury accepted that the first appellant had murdered the deceased , then it necessarily followed that they should have acquitted the second appellant . |
| 11 | Moving the suspension of standing orders at the next meeting of Cork County Council , Councillor Gene Fitzgerald TD complained that the first council members heard of the planning decision was when they read of it in the morning paper . |
| 12 | Russian radio reported that the first group of 14th Army troops had left Moldova on May 26 , and that airborne units stationed in Kishinev would withdraw between June 15 and Sept. 1 . |
| 13 | The company said that the first six months of the year ‘ have seen more new business than during any previous period ’ . |
| 14 | By turning a blind eye to the activities of moderate Puritan laymen and clergy while at the same time dealing harshly with Presbyterian extremists , king and archbishop ensured that the first fifteen years of Abbot 's primacy were some of the most tranquil in the religious sphere during the entire century following the break with Rome ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 15 | As the search began in January 1989 for 12 people who had never watched his testimony to sit as a jury at North 's trial , one cartoonist imagined it would have to be composed of mujahedin from Afghanistan ; a satirist announced that the first two jurors selected were Hsing-Hsing and Ling-Ling , the pandas from Washington Zoo . |
| 16 | Thereafter the tight hand of regional regulation ensured that the first set of " block " contracts followed the previous year 's referral patterns and volumes of work , as the DOH exhorted a " smooth takeoff " and " steady state " . |
| 17 | The Court of Appeal held that the first test had been stated , albeit obiter , in the speeches of four of their Lordships in Broome v Cassell & Co Ltd [ 1972 ] AC 1027 . |