Example sentences of "[prep] the first [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aims were defined , certain statutory regulations laid down and five officers elected for the first three-year term . |
| 2 | For the first 1/4 hour or so , I even thought that Deano was going to have a blinder . |
| 3 | I turn to face Crilly for the first real time . |
| 4 | After that , he flies to Paris for a meeting with the French President , then on to Germany for the first historic conference with the heads of all the NATO , European Community and Warsaw Pact countries . |
| 5 | BGS provided much of the logistical support for the first international conference arranged under the auspices of IGCP Project 294 , Very Low Grade Metamorphism , which was held at the University of Manchester , 5–6 July 1990 . |
| 6 | Now is the time to prove them right by entering our Christmas literary quiz — and as an added incentive we are offering a bottle of Glenmorangie for the first correct entry drawn out of the hat . |
| 7 | I waited two years for the first substantive response to one article despite reminder letters to the editor . |
| 8 | The system was developed by the Reservoir Quality Prediction team at XTP Sunbury in response to the tough target , set by Breakthrough Management , for the first extended-reach well of the programme : it had to produce at 15,000 barrels-a-day . |
| 9 | The firebox and boiler of No. 3822 were equally packed out too , as WSR Driver Dave Williams and Fireman Gareth Winter had the engine just right for the first four-mile assault on Crowcombe Bank . |
| 10 | He carries the Staff of the Patriarchs made for the first Supreme Patriarch Volans by the warrior mage Fredrick von Tarnus after the Great War against Chaos . |
| 11 | For all that , had she been right just to abandon him pitilessly for the first dashing knight to Pass her way ? |
| 12 | He is available for the first working party meeting on Monday 18th January , and I suggest it is held in Aberystwyth at 2pm . |
| 13 | This work resulted in a list of buildings which formed the basis for the first systematic protection established by the 1944 Town and Country Planning Act . |
| 14 | If you want to make a shape that is straight to the waist , then enter one program for the first straight section and knit to the instruction for cast off . |
| 15 | The world 's governments will meet in Rome this December for the first global food conference for nearly 20 years , and it is hoped that it will produce the nutritional blueprint for the next century . |
| 16 | Sam , without any hesitation had agreed knowing that to wait for the first available fireman would delay his train 's departure . |
| 17 | The fact that I had not done so put me too high for the first available field , but with insufficient height for the next one . |
| 18 | When the computer is trying to save a new file to a disc , it looks for the first available fragment of space , writes as much of the new file as will fit , then looks for another available fragment of space , writes a bit more , and so on until all the file is written somewhere on the disc . |
| 19 | De Klerk arrived in the United States on Sept. 24 for the first official visit by a South African government leader in 44 years . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Well a very close fought encounter at the stadium ; we had to wait for quarter of an hour for the first actual goal chance when Dave Bristow hit the ball from twenty five yards , which just cleared the bar . |
| 22 | This tuck stitch is easy to work on the Singer Big Nine and you can see from this sample that by working with a lighter shade for the background for the first four pattern repeats followed by a darker one for the background , similar amounts of yarn have been used over the same number of rows . |
| 23 | She thought they might have a Christmas tree ; for the first non-ideological season for many years . |
| 24 | Leeds was also responsible for the first major excavation of a settlement at Sutton Courtenay , Berkshire ( Leeds 1923 ; 1927 ; 1947 ) as well as reporting on a number of cemeteries ( 1916 ; 1924 ; and Harden 1936 ; and Riley 1942 ; and Shortt 1953 ) . |
| 25 | AS THE plutocrats of world golf prepare to fly to Augusta for the first major championship of the season , — in some cases in their personal executive jets — it is a safe bet none of them sit back and reflect on the origins of their good fortune . |
| 26 | Together this mixture of lumpen proletarian resentment and art-school manipulation lit the fuse for the first major explosion in pop music — and pop culture — for ten years . |
| 27 | Politicians described the panel 's proposals for the first major reform of the 35-year-old Fifth Republic 's constitution as modest . |
| 28 | The barely acknowledged hope caused her heart to beat faster as she reached for the first round iron latch . |
| 29 | ARSENAL 'S rent-a-crowd will assist the team in their battle for the first Premier League title . |
| 30 | In 1884 he lodged a patent for the first direct cotton dye : that is , a dye requiring no mordant . |