Example sentences of "[art] first [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The players will train at Bradford next week and have three days together in Wales prior to the game the first between the countries since England won convincingly at Ebbw Vale eight years ago . |
| 2 | The agreement is the first between the nations since a 1970s pact on polar bear hunting . |
| 3 | The tunnel was the longest in Britain at the time , the first over a mile in length . |
| 4 | To be the first over the wall of a castle or town which was being stormed ; to be encamped close to the wall of a besieged city and thus within range of missiles fired from its walls , these were acts which merited honour and respect . |
| 5 | A good exhibit is that which commemorates the Pyrenean climbers and their notable ascents , such figures as Count Henry Russell or Ramond de Carbonnières , who was the first into the field and made thirty five separate ascents of the Pic du Midi de Bigorre between the years 1787 and 1810 . |
| 6 | And , as all marketing people know , it 's not always the first into the market that succeeds — more often than not it 's the one that shouts the loudest |
| 7 | The drivers , flushed and cursing , each trying to be the first into the city and to have their wares ready for sale before the city came to life . |
| 8 | Mahmud was the first through the door . |
| 9 | The effect of the first past the post electoral system exaggerated trends in regional voting patterns , leaving Labour with one seat only in each of the South East ( excluding Greater London ) , South West and East Anglia — out of 108 , 45 and 20 respectively . |
| 10 | The first one on stage had to be the first off the coach that trundled them to and fro . |
| 11 | London-based HM Systems Plc which , with its Minstrel workstation was one of the first vendors to ship an 80486-based machine , says it also plans to be one of the first off the mark with Pentium machines . |
| 12 | ‘ Chairman — the first off the mark was Guy Husband from Six ‘ — I 'm sorry to be singing the school song so early , but the Meeting Notice was classified merely as ‘ Secret , . |
| 13 | NME ca n't claim to be the first off the blocks with coverage of this splenetic musical bastard — that honour has to go to the now sadly defunct Sounds . |
| 14 | Later the chairman of the Isle of Man Post Office Authority presented Lewin Cain , chairman of Douglas branch , with a framed sheet of stamps — the first off the press — and a donation of £100 for the branch funds . |
| 15 | Leading the field of revived interest in the hard-boiled fiction of Jim Thompson , Stephen Frears ' first American film ( the first off the slate from recently formed Martin Scorsese Productions ) enters a sleazy world of lower echelon crime , focusing on the fatal interaction of small time con Roy ( John Cusack ) , his estranged mother Lily ( Anjelica Huston ) and girlfriend Myra ( Annette Bening ) . |
| 16 | Quality of finish was n't too good at many points on our test tractor , either , but we have to assume it was largely because our machine was one of the first off the production line . |
| 17 | O'Leary is the first off the production line . |
| 18 | Elections in late March 1990 for 10 island councils were the first since the formation of the union territory of Lakshadweep in 1956 . |
| 19 | In municipal elections held on June 28 , the first since the ending in March 1990 of 17 years of military rule , the ruling Coalition of Parties for Democracy ( CPD ) won 53.3 per cent of the vote , against 29.8 per cent for the combined right-wing opposition of the National Renewal ( RN ) and the Independent Democratic Union ( UDI ) . |
| 20 | The publication of a White Paper in July 1991 followed the government 's July 25 , 1990 , " options for change " defence review , the first since the collapse of the communist regimes on eastern Europe . |
| 21 | In the late 1950s Western Europe was still basking in the afterglow of the 1955 Geneva summit , the first since the war between the United States and the Soviet Union . |
| 22 | The Cabinet formed in the reshuffle of Ministers in the autumn of 1985 was the first since the war to contain no women ( apart from the Prime Minister herself ) . |
| 23 | We were the first up the hill and had to break a path , so although a summer walk up Schiehallion is simple and quick to the point of disappointment , winter is a trifle harder . |
| 24 | They had already been hauled up eight times , the first during the summer of 1981 , and had been fined a total of £23,200 . |
| 25 | The tree is the first of a glade of forty species from all over the world . |
| 26 | David had been right , thought Juliet excitedly , as they approached the first of a row of huge old houses . |
| 27 | Taylor , from Birkenhead , Merseyside , struck one prison officer , taking his keys , and within minutes the rioters had erected the first of a labyrinth of barricades and begun systematically destroying the chapel . |
| 28 | The manuscript , to be published by 1994 , is the first of a three-volume catalogue of the museums 's 1,100 piece collection of Roman and Byzantine glass . |
| 29 | In operating partially without paper , the bank is the first of a pilot group of 10 Belgacom clients , which have been experimenting with the phone company 's as-yet-unannounced Electronic Data Interchange service for the last 18 months . |
| 30 | But on the day of his funeral Jean , his wife of 38 years , found the first of a trail of clues to his lavish hidden lifestyle with a secret mistress . |