Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite his inexperience Andy wins the first race . |
| 2 | Dr Haritos-Fatouros says the first rule for those selecting potential torturers is : do not hire a sadist . |
| 3 | Tuesday sees the first TV screening of the controversial film Jesus of Montreal — it 's on Channel Four , starting at 10 p.m . |
| 4 | We 're going off ! ’ screams every nerve of the BSM graduate 's 25 years of road driving as Brundle approaches the first corner at more than 120 mph and heels the car , its tyres wailing and jouncing on the limits of their purchase , across the corner . |
| 5 | Enoch builds the first city . |
| 6 | Michel Laclotte 's farewell show as director of the Louvre includes the first sight of its eight newly cleaned Titians |
| 7 | To a backdrop of deserted stands , Andrew Hudson becomes the first South African to score a hundred on his Test debut : ( below ) Curtly Ambrose mops up on the final day , bowling Meyrick Pringle . |
| 8 | The firm of Longman claims the first dust jacket , on Heath 's Keepsake for 1835 . |
| 9 | And Ampex produces the first video recorder . |
| 10 | Cooper gets the first header away . |
| 11 | As Sayer , Williams carries the first half of the movie . |
| 12 | Jesus wins the first round in the battle against evil ( Mark 1 : 21–28 ) . |
| 13 | Robin delivers the first verdict on it 's performance . |
| 14 | Masur paces the first movements with great skill and builds climaxes with just the right sense of slow , inexorable growth . |
| 15 | Thus the Book of Daniel provides the first intimation of that apocalyptic interpretation of contemporary struggles which was to become an ordinary feature of the later rebellions of the Jews against foreign rule . |
| 16 | Seacontrol represents the first time on-board maintenance software has been made commercially available to the shipping industry by a marine coatings supplier . |
| 17 | Boss Robin Miller says the first issue of computer games magazine Nintendo Magazine System sold a massive 150,000-plus copies . |
| 18 | Brian Cervi leads the first XI , with Lloyd Edwards and Bernie Tutte looking after the second team . |
| 19 | Tonight , Lord Scarman hears the first submissions to the independent enquiry into the future of Rover at Cowley . |
| 20 | Connie Franks recommends the first week in June as being early enough for putting out the bedding plants . |
| 21 | Ahead of its international user meeting and training conference in San Jose , California , on the 27th of this month , when the majority of System 10 components will be debuted , Sybase Inc this Wednesday unveils the first module in the latest release of its relational database management system products . |
| 22 | Commenting on the company 's figures ( see opposite ) , AT&T Co chairman Robert Allen says the first quarter results , excluding the accounting changes , auger well for the rest of the year . |
| 23 | Inside Story ( BBC-1 9.30pm ) producer Tom Bower presents the first investigation into Rowland , unravelling his past , tracing the controversial path which earned his fortune and revealing those who have benefited and suffered under his single-minded dictat . |
| 24 | Mr McCann presents the first Bond to Chris Smith of Royal Insurance , watched by Bill Tubey , Manweb ; Richard Smith , Barclays ; Erica Duff , Brookside Productions and Frank Cogley , Liverpool 's Director of Education Picture : TONY KENWRIGHT |
| 25 | Lawrence remains the first choice for Japanese . |
| 26 | What a pity the kangaroo had been discovered too late for Johnson s Dictionary : Captain Cook makes the first reference to it three years earlier , in his Journal for August 1770 . |
| 27 | Though France is the primary target when the US hits the first $300 million worth of exports in December — America believes that they are behind the EC 's ‘ stubbornness ’ — Britain is next in the firing line . |
| 28 | THE BEGINNING OF THE END Lord Young looks on as Paul Reichmann drives the first pile at Canary Wharf in 1987 . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | CLARKE 'S CRACKER : Northern Ireland 's Colin Clarke blasts the first goal of the game — and his record 13th for the team . |