Example sentences of "[noun sg] the first [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However the ETUC had begun to press the need for the development of an active social policy in the late 1960s , and in response the first Quadripartite Conference , involving representatives of the Commission , Ministers of Labour , employers and employees , was held in Luxembourg in 1970 . |
| 2 | An Ingersoll D20 , M6 , M7 , SC71 , NS80 , SC74 or SC76 lock and in the case of double leaf hinged doors in addition the first closing leaf is secured by either : |
| 3 | After half an hour the first English injury occurred , Andy Lloyd going into the record books as the possessor of the briefest of all Test careers . |
| 4 | He inspired the creation of Oxford 's earliest ancillary scientific post , becoming in effect the first professional laboratory technician . |
| 5 | Through this device the first German republic sought to preserve the role of the so-called ‘ free ’ welfare associations , foremost the established churches , which had become the key providers of welfare services ( Sachsse , 1988 ) . |
| 6 | The lucky winner has the privilege of sending their leader the first congratulatory telegram , announcing the success of the latest project . |
| 7 | That evening the first annual dinner was held . |
| 8 | ‘ from the day the first palaeolithic warrior smashed a rock into a small animal , violence has been used to produce wealth ’ . |
| 9 | In 1771 , a significant innovation , the French army began to award to old soldiers of twenty-five years standing the first long-service medal . |
| 10 | On more than one occasion the first physical contact , the first touch has been a slap or a shove : the swipe of her hand across Tod 's feeble leer of-what ? |
| 11 | A third round of talks was held in May , and in the same month the first direct charter flight between the two countries was made [ p. 38191 ] . |
| 12 | In this respect the first Merovingian code was at least perceived by men of the seventh century as being different from its Visigothic and Burgundian counterparts . |
| 13 | Only the historic fact that he gave the Irish capital the first public performance of what would become the most popular of all oratorios . |
| 14 | Under the eight-day ruling the first available date for another replay between Portsmouth and Liverpool was May 4 . |
| 15 | In the fields of glacial and periglacial geomorphology the first modern textbook ( Embleton and King , 1968 ) was soon followed by others ( Price , 1973 ) ; and later work utilized a systems framework ( Andrews , 1975 ; Sugden and John , 1976 ) as indicated later ( p. 159 ) . |
| 16 | By 1910 revised maps and detailed memoirs had been published on the Edinburgh and East Lothian districts and the following year the first comprehensive account of the Glasgow area was issued . |
| 17 | Wijdenbosch had been Prime Minister of the military-backed government responsible for the 1987 Constitution allowing in that year the first general election since 1977 [ see pp. 35758-59 ] . |
| 18 | For at a conference in London , Russian space scientists awarded a British company the first foreign franchise to sell pictures from their most powerful orbiting cameras . |
| 19 | ‘ This type of work is well supported throughout most of Europe but was in fact the first British plant science experiment in microgravity , ’ he said . |