Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 31 | American Al Martino had the first No. 1 in Christmas 1952 and since then some of pop 's most famous , and not so famous , names have joined the seasonal roll of honour . |
| 32 | Garston Snooker League are now approaching the half way stage with Woolton Village Club leading the first division with 23 points from eight games closely followed by Mossley Hill Legion ( 22 ) . |
| 33 | In February Aquino became the first President of the Philippines to appear in court as she took the stand as a witness in support of her libel case against a newspaper columnist , Luis Beltran . |
| 34 | The first game was notable in that , apart from a demanding first win , Sebastian Sloane became the first Rugby schoolboy to score a five point try . |
| 35 | Last month a 12-year-old Devon girl became the first in Britain to win an order allowing her to live with her grandparents . |
| 36 | Simon Morris got the first try … |
| 37 | On eight minutes Armagh outhalf Simon Willis struck the first blow with a simple penalty . |
| 38 | Nova Scotia became the first province to break the compact earlier this year when it agreed to provide 16 infected individuals with a non-taxable $30,000 per year until they die , and to reimburse the cost of drugs , most of which are not covered by Medicare . |
| 39 | Professor Keishiro Okuma presented the first issue of the new journal Studia Celtica Japonica ( Toyohashi , 1988 ) , published by the Celtic Society of Japan , a welcome reminder of the wide span of international interest in Celtic studies . |
| 40 | Ray Butts made the first one for his own guitar player , then he took it to Nashville and showed it to Chet Atkins and Chet bought one . |
| 41 | South Africa ended the first day at 226–7 , recovering from 26–4 thanks to Jonty Rhodes ' defiant 91 . |
| 42 | The former Northern Ireland champion won the first frame 71-45 but McCluskey took the second 57-37 and it seemed as though the Ulsterman was in for a tough fight . |
| 43 | RICK COLE AUCTIONS hosted the first Annual Reno Warbird and Classic Aircraft Auction on September 18 and 19 at the new Reno Hotel ( formerly Bally 's ) . |
| 44 | Alan McLoughlin got the first after 18 minutes . |
| 45 | The England star takes the first step towards his long-awaited comeback in an A-team game this afternoon , five months after suffering a career-threatening Achilles injury . |
| 46 | The assigning of Christopher Barry to direct the first Dalek serial stemmed from a direct invitation by Verity Lambert to do so . |
| 47 | This week , Joy Francis investigates the first category of elder abuse : physical abuse and physical neglect ( see page 18 ) while Mervyn Eastman , recognised as the first social worker to highlight elder abuse , examines the problems of defining elder abuse ( see page 20 ) . |
| 48 | Zara Wolseley took the first set of her Under-18 match with Jo Ward 6-4 but at the end of a hard encounter saw Ward claim the next two sets 6-3 6-2 for victory . |
| 49 | Dr Broadhurst organised the first public meeting in St Margaret 's Hope . |
| 50 | In 1967 , Dr Christiaan Barnard performed the first heart transplant . |
| 51 | September 1991 : HCIMA Greece became the first European Chapter to be inaugurated , by Director at a gathering in Athens , attended by 120 senior members of Greece 's hotel and catering and tourism industries . |
| 52 | The Derbyshire professional dropped the first frame , but then won five of the next six . |
| 53 | The border-opening debacle and the wave of mutual recrimination which it engendered appeared to threaten the tentative July agreement to hold the first ever summit between the Premiers of the two Korean states in Seoul , the South Korean capital , on Sept. 4-7 . |
| 54 | Stoddard Templeton launched the first ICN carpet range in the UK called Co-ordinates . |
| 55 | Philip Brannon 's charming drawing of the FORT AT PEVERIL POINT shows the first pier ( 1859 ) in the background . |
| 56 | Ian McCulloch won the first round with Colin Sproull and Eddie in second and third place . |
| 57 | Mr Melly compered the first Brain Game , for the legal profession last month , which raised £5,000 . |
| 58 | With the McDevitt brothers filling the first two places it was left to Des Wilkinson and Les Coatup in fourth and seventh positions to give Wirral an easy win ahead of Sefton . |
| 59 | Mike Hawthorn had become Britain 's first World Champion in 1958 but the great British monopoly of the World Championship started in 1962 when Graham Hill won the first of his two titles , but then perhaps the greatest driver of the modern era , Jim Clark , won the first of his two titles in 1963 . |
| 60 | Poet , artist , calligrapher and connoisseur , Tung Ch'i-ch'ang devised the first systematic history and theory of Chinese art , dividing the old masters between the decorative Northern and the meditative Southern schools . |