Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun sg] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year The Mary Whitehouse Experience became the first TV programme to be reported to the Broadcasting Standards Council after a derogatory sketch about Going For Gold star Henry Kelly was shown . |
| 2 | At about 2.15 , someone from the Cardiff side threw the first stone , then the bricks started flying : if they could n't get at each other on land , then they could always fight a missile war and there was plenty of ammo flying around : the workmen who put the fence in had not swept up the chunks of broken concrete around the supports . |
| 3 | Gary Stretch makes the first defence of his British light- middleweight championship against Rochdale 's Derek Wormald at the London Arena tonight , knowing it could lead to a lucrative world title eliminator against Leicester 's Chris Pyatt . |
| 4 | Last year NEC Corp launched the first wireless PC . |
| 5 | Paul Trollope the ex Swindon boy got the first which highlighted the holes in the Hereford defence . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | Last month a 12-year-old Devon girl became the first in Britain to win an order allowing her to live with her grandparents . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Derbyshire professional dropped the first frame , but then won five of the next six . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Philip Brannon 's charming drawing of the FORT AT PEVERIL POINT shows the first pier ( 1859 ) in the background . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Of the students in my time , one has since become an archbishop , John Aung Hla ; another , John Maung Pe became the first bishop of Akyab , and another who came for a short term of study and an even shorter curacy was John Richardson , the saintly schoolteacher , catechist , priest and bishop in turn of Car Nicobar , where under his influence the whole of the island population , including witch doctors , became Christian . |
| 15 | Martin Ling got the first after 29 minutes . |
| 16 | Martin Ling hit the first … the second showed Swindon at their best … the old class was showing as Andy Mutch made it 2 all … who 's a clever boy … |
| 17 | Although it had held power in several of Canada 's western provinces , however , the Ontario result marked the first occasion upon which the party had won a provincial election east of Manitoba . |
| 18 | Dundalk clinched the double with victory over Derry in the 1988 FAI Cup Final and the following season the Brandywell club took the first step towards a unique treble with a stunning 4–0 win in the League Cup final at Oriel Park . |
| 19 | But the eight-time Wimbledon champion lost the first set as the Czechoslovak brought her down with her huge serve and she looked a bag of nerves . |
| 20 | ‘ LIKE A LITTLE bird , sweet and smooth ’ , was how a jubilant Dick Melton of Dick Melton Aviation described the first flight of Hurricane G-ORGI from a Hampshire airstrip on September 8 . |
| 21 | Sandra Bernhard MC 'd the first part of the show alongside American Vogue 's André Leon Talley , Daniel de la Falaise escorted Kylie Minogue down the runway , BodyMap 's David Holah and film-maker John Maybury appeared in drag , as did Pierre and Gilles dressed as bride and groom . |
| 22 | In Massachusetts , William Weld became the first Republican governor in the state for 20 years when he defeated John Silber , the Democrat who was aspiring to succeed Michael Dukakis . |
| 23 | THE Merseyside Partnership holds the first of three Corporate Partnership Seminars at its offices in the Cunard Building today as it continues its work of promoting the region . |
| 24 | A new study by Peter Bryant and Lynette Bradley at Oxford University provides the first good evidence that the ability to analyse a word into its constituent sounds is most important in the early stages of learning to read ( Nature , vol 301. p 419 ) . |
| 25 | On the first day of the launch Manchester branch received the first Home Purchaser with a Bolt-on Critical Illness application from a Bolton Agent , on his own life . |
| 26 | Bob Logist had the first and the last round drawn and the remainder for Leonard , while Joe Cortez gave the fourth , fifth , ninth and 10th rounds to Duran to produce the narrowest margin , 116-111 . |
| 27 | Rumours of impending action in Algiers filtered back to him , and on 11 May the editor of a leading Algiers newspaper published the first public appeal for his return . |
| 28 | Last year one Middlesex student became the first to submit a postgraduate thesis as a video cassette tape . |
| 29 | At its December meeting the SCOTVEC Board approved the first SVQ : The Preliminary Certificate in Agriculture , which comprised a group of National Certificate Modules . |
| 30 | AN INCREASING demand for hypo-allergenic dairy products has led a Tayside woman to take the first tentative steps towards setting up what it is thought would be Britain 's only mare milking unit . |