Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Selected for the historic first Test match against South Africa at Kensington Oval , Walsh admits he did not start too well ( first-innings figures of 27–7–71–0 and dropping Andrew Hudson at long leg off Ambrose when the eventual centurion was 22 ) . |
| 2 | It 'll change as you get older erm you wo n't necessarily just have that all the time we used to run these courses for students who had just come out of college and they were joining their company to work for the first first time and we used to do this and we used to find that many of the people who had just taken out the job for the first time had very very flat scores . |
| 3 | Prize for the Best First Novel went to James Hamilton-Paterson for Gerontius ( Macmillan , £12.95 ) ; and for the Best Children 's Novel to Hugh Scott for Why Weeps the Brogan ? |
| 4 | The biggest surprise was Tran Anh Hung 's ‘ The Smell of Green Papaya ’ , the winner of the prize for the best first film . |
| 5 | [ For the inconclusive first round of voting in May see pp. 38907-08 . ] |
| 6 | George Dunlop , of Linfield , preferred to Allen McKnight , held out for 42 minutes , but when Fort Dunlop came under siege , the defences were found wanting , and the only Irish-based player on the field was at fault for the important first goal . |
| 7 | With extra time looking certain to end in a second 1–1 stalemate and dog-tired players steeling themselves for the dreaded first Cup final penalty shoot-out , the 30-year-old soared to head a Paul Merson corner into and out of Chris Woods ' hands . |
| 8 | Michael Croggan 's painstaking work on the Amazon rainforests has earned international acclaim and the first Jameson award for the twenty first century . |
| 9 | The Oxfordshire Club has been described by some experts as unique and a course for the twenty first century … what makes it so special is a mixture of three styles … of classic English with trees … of links with sand dunes … and of American type holes landscaped by lakes … it 's been designed by Rees Jones |
| 10 | Her love and zest for life comes out in her unique correspondence and notes made during the momentous first east-west crossing of the Atlantic of the Graf Zeppelin LZ.127 . |
| 11 | The pace bowlers capitalised during the abbreviated first day , even if the close catchers did n't . |
| 12 | In the meantime , plans had been afoot for a combined British and American force , known as the Allied First Army , to land on French North African shores — this occurred on 8th , November 1942 , and those forces moved eastward towards the advancing British Eighth Army . |
| 13 | Sun 's Chet Silvestri , vice president of technology sales , the man charged with making Sparc successful , has turned to native NetWare as the obvious first choice for new non-Unix business . |
| 14 | Following talks in January 1989 between the Vietnamese First Deputy Foreign Minister Dinh Nho Liem and the Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen [ see p. 36397 ] , a gradual improvement in relations became evident throughout the year , was greatly facilitated by the Vietnamese withdrawal from Cambodia in September 1989 [ see pp. 36881-82 ] . |
| 15 | The criticism in New Zealand of their own side after the 24–21 First Test win , that could so easily have been a defeat , was deafening . |
| 16 | BRITISH LIONS captain Gavin Hastings paid tribute to his players after the narrow first Test defeat by New Zealand 's All Blacks in Christchurch . |
| 17 | The bankruptcies did not happen , but he bought the Daily Mirror into ATV when bankruptcy looked possible , after the traumatic first year . |
| 18 | GAVIN HASTINGS , captain of the shattered British Isles team , admitted that tears were shed in the dressing room after the last-minute First Test defeat by New Zealand . |
| 19 | When the antislavery movement as a movement began to have a history , the writing of it by participants or writers dependent upon the perspective of participants contributed to a unifying consciousness central to which was a veneration of the heroic first generation who in their functional and religious diversity confirmed the possibility of unity in common endeavour . |
| 20 | he 's one of the fastest first division . |
| 21 | The earlier Count and Add software is considered by many to be one of the best first maths programs for youngsters , and much care appears to have be spent on this new version . |
| 22 | A degree in Politics is one of the best first degree courses for a student wanting to make a career in business , administration , the media , voluntary bodies or central and local government . |
| 23 | In the event each of the 57 first wave trusts found their borrowing limits — known as " external financing limits " — set in such a way that their ability to raise capital was tightly controlled . |
| 24 | The French goal ace had feared being out of the game for two months after hobbling out of the 3-0 first leg defeat with a damaged hamstring . |
| 25 | Isolates from two of the 79 patients showed multidrug resistant M tuberculosis with confirmed resistance to all of the standard first line agents . |
| 26 | After the drama of the tied first Test , Australia won the second by seven wickets and West Indies the third by 222 runs ; as the fourth neared its close , West Indies appeared to have the game in their hands , only for the last Australian pair to survive for an hour and forty minutes and earn a draw ; and the final Test was won by Australia with just two wickets left . |
| 27 | But at least Pétain , unlike most of the other First War Commanders — and in opposition to de Castelnau , then his immediate superior — knew when to stop , instead of trying to redeem failure fruitlessly , and at terrible cost in lives . |
| 28 | No , I think that Wilko wants rid of him … more cash … happier bankers … and no one will really worry about selling off reserves ( unlike Batty or any of the other first team ) . |
| 29 | Without warning , it suddenly let out a blast of the 62 first line of Dixie on a five-tone airhorn , so loud and so unexpected that it made Alina take a startled step back . |
| 30 | But the reaction against the Gothic tyranny was now setting in , it said , and the Government were to be congratulated ‘ on repudiating the ecclesiastical sympathies of the late First Commissioner ’ . |