Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adj] [art] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also on March 22 the first round of cantonal elections were held for 2,025 general councillors ( including 79 overseas ) , with a second round on March 29 [ for last cantonal elections in 1985 see p. 36705 ] . |
| 2 | On Good Friday 1958 the first march set out for Aldermaston , the atomic research establishment in Berkshire , under the CND symbol , a black circle forked with a white ‘ drooping cross ’ , the semaphore symbols for N and D , which became the membership badge not only for the campaign but for a certain kind of non-conformity among young people . |
| 3 | Sixteen months later , in January 1858. the first tenants were already in their new farmhouses . |
| 4 | On 26 January 1986 the first protest against the proposed lignite mining took place when over 2,000 people marched from Moortown school to the Old Cross at Ardboe where they held a rally . |
| 5 | By a respondent 's notice dated 1 July 1991 the first defendant cross-appealed , seeking an order that on the taking of accounts and inquiry ordered to be taken by Chief Master Munrow on 14 March 1988 , the plaintiffs were not entitled to raise an objection to the defendants ' accounts on the ground that the items were unreasonable in amount unless the court had deprived the first defendant as mortgagee of relevant costs . |
| 6 | In May 1976 the first exploration licences specifically for uranium were issued to Maugh Ltd , a subsidiary of the French company Minatome , a company which in turn was partly owned by Total , the French state-owned oil company . |
| 7 | On July 1 the first stage of the Delors plan on economic and monetary union came into effect . |
| 8 | Punsaalmagiyn Ochirbat , then Minister of External Economic Relations and Supply , was in July 1989 the first minister to visit the United Kingdom , when he reached agreement with British companies on wind power , oil prospecting , the paper industry and tourism . |
| 9 | By a written agreement dated 26 May 1988 the first plaintiff company ( ‘ Istel ’ ) agreed to buy the entire share capital of Abbey and its subsidiary companies for the sum of £2,550,000 . |
| 10 | July 1988 The first talks take place between all the opposing Cambodian factions at the Jakarta Informal Meeting [ see pp. 36615-16 ] . |
| 11 | On 7 February 1863 the first number of the Church Times appeared . |
| 12 | However , Syria sided with the pro-Western camp at the Cairo summit and on Aug. 20 the first contingent of 1,200 Syrian troops was dispatched to Saudi Arabia . |
| 13 | On 22 March 1921 the first sea-plane landed in Funchal after completing a flight from Lisbon ; in the 1930s a Zeppelin passed over Funchal , and in 1949 Aquila Airways began a regular flying-boat service to the island . |
| 14 | FEB 1993 The first anniversary of TOP was marked by presentations to a representative group of staff outlining progress and difficulties encountered in the past year . |
| 15 | At the inaugural meeting of the Geographical Society on 16 July 1830 , he was appointed its secretary , and on 16 November 1833 the first professor of geography in the University of London . |
| 16 | Sun Japan , which just released Sun Microsystems Inc 's latest low-end boxes , plans to ship 10,000 Sparc Classics , 6,000 LXs and 2,000 SparcCenter 2000s the first year out . |
| 17 | OCT 1992 The first Reward and Recognition points appeared on payslips . |
| 18 | By Jan 62 the tooling jigs were assembled , and in Feb 62 the first metal was cut at the Bordeaux-Merignac factory on a sleek eight or ten seat twin-engine executive jet and military liaison aircraft , which had the aerodynamic features of the Mystère IV . |
| 19 | In November 1959 the first expropriation of US property took place , an event signalling that the Cubans were no longer willing to accept the need for negotiations on Washington 's terms . |
| 20 | On Feb. 21 the first meeting was held between the new government and the trade unions , but Podkrepa refused to attend the meeting with Dimitrov and other Cabinet members because the CITUB 's chair , Krustyu Petkov , was also invited . |
| 21 | On Oct. 4 the first session of the enlarged ( from 519 to 663 members ) Bundestag ( lower house of federal parliament ) was held in the Reichstag building . |
| 22 | On 26 October 1955 the first issue hit the news-stands . |
| 23 | On Nov. 10-13 the first elements of the UN Advance Mission in Cambodia ( UNAMIC ) arrived in the country . |
| 24 | A few extracts I believe will suffice : March 11th , 1335 , he carried out an ordination , the following day , March 12th the first tonsure of seven clerks and on the 15th , another ordination . |
| 25 | Was it not significant that — even following the Welsh songs and with the Welsh anthem to follow — when Her Royal Highness , The Princess of Wales , was introduced to the teams before the recent Wales versus France international the first lines of God Save the Queen were marred by an outbreak of hissing and booing ? |
| 26 | On 1 Jan 65 the first production aircraft , F-WMSH , flew incorporating small design refinements over the prototype . |
| 27 | If you missed Turry 2 the first time round , four pounds is a small price to pay for one of last year 's best games . |
| 28 | From about April 1988 to March 1989 the first defendant , Pantell S.A. , a company incorporated under the laws of Switzerland , carried on an unauthorised investment business in the United Kingdom . |
| 29 | In April 1980 the first attack on Raybestos came yet again from the Ringaskiddy residents . |
| 30 | The moment was propitious , for on 19 April 1775 the first shots were fired , at Lexington in Massachusetts , in the rebellion of the American colonists , which rapidly developed into a full-scale war and led , on 4 July 1776 , to the new United States of America formally proclaiming their independence of Great Britain . |