Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun sg] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company made at least one take-over of another East End brewery before the First World War , John Furze and Co 's St George brewery , Church Lane , Whitechapel , in 1901 . |
| 2 | They allowed cameras into their Hereford base for the first time , to drive home the message that the public must be on their guard in the run-up to Christmas . |
| 3 | Neither Julia nor I had realised that some delegates would be registering on the Saturday morning for the first time — we had n't covered this . |
| 4 | SPAIN recorded a sensational 6–0 win over Romania in the FIRA Championship on the first weekend of April in Madrid . |
| 5 | Fault-tolerant Unix system builder , Sequoia Systems Inc , is going after the health care market in collaboration with its partner — Hewlett-Packard — and DataTree and Greystone Technology as the first of several vertical sectors it expects to pursue . |
| 6 | McRae , who had led in his Subaru Legacy on the first day , was 28 seconds behind Jonsson — winning for the second successive year . |
| 7 | A Thirties scene with modern streamlined cars passing the massive war memorial constructed with the profits from shell-making by the Tramways Department in the First World War . |
| 8 | From these statements it is possible to deduce that Hizir Bey must have been appointed to the Sultan medrese during the first sultanate of Mehmed II ( 848–50/1444–6 ) and that Molla Arab can not therefore have begun his study with him , much less become anyone 's before the summer of 848/1444 . |
| 9 | Members should note that the current intention is not to hold a January meeting as the first Friday of the month is New Year 's Day . |
| 10 | President Reagan openly backs the Contra guerillas against the Nicaraguan Sandinista Government for the first time . |
| 11 | And the fact that I will be playing under him as captain on an England tour for the first time will not stop me having dinner and drinking with him most nights . |
| 12 | This , after all , is why we have the Maastricht treaty in the first place . |
| 13 | Why did the United States not leave it to Scotland Yard in the first place ? |
| 14 | We will then travel by coach through the golds and reds of a New Hampshire autumn for the first of two nights at the Town and Country Inn , Gorham , north of Massachusetts . |
| 15 | The third leg of Mr. Bloom 's treble was Gillie Mann 's Ovac Star in the first Maiden . |
| 16 | Subsequently SunSoft will offer a combined ‘ MoLook ’ type COSE toolkit in the first half of next year . |
| 17 | Chris Lightfoot scored two in three minutes to overcome a seventh-minute deficit at Rochdale and put Chester City into the first round of the Leyland Daf Trophy . |
| 18 | On balance , though , the evidence suggests record levels of NHS activity during the first year of the internal market . |
| 19 | Switzerland stood down from taking on the rotating EFTA presidency in the first six months of 1993 , taking up instead the vice-presidency ( in charge of negotiations with third countries , including eastern Europe ) ; the presidency passed instead to Sweden . |
| 20 | Barlow , who helped Freed State win the Nissan Shield for the first time during the past season , has taken up his appointment in time to lead Transvaal in partnership with captain Jimmy Cook on the short tour of England in July . |
| 21 | In the final RUGBY UNION : Middlesbrough Wasps reached the final of the North Yorkshire Trophy for the first time when they beat Rowntrees 11–6 at Acklam Park yesterday . |
| 22 | Following the example of the Collings , the divergence of type was continued by the Booth family of Killesby and Warlaby , Yorkshire , who in 1790 began to breed the Teeswater for fleshiness ( and were still doing so in 1919 ) , and Thomas Bates of Kirklevington in Yorkshire , born in 1775 , who bred for milk , both families making full use of Colling stock in the first half of the nineteenth century . |
| 23 | One patient originally included in the study had acute colitis and a high level of IgG anti-lactoferrin at the first sampling occasion , and a further raised anti-lactoferrin level in a later serum sample ( not illustrated ) . |
| 24 | The pgk- neo selectable marker was excised as a Eco RI- Hin dIII fragment from pKJ1 25 , blunt-ended with Klenow DNA polymerase and inserted into the unique Pfl MI site in the first exon of TCR Cα , which was blunted by treatment with T4 DNA polymerase . |
| 25 | He tested his first successful model on 27 October , 1815 in Killingworth colliery , two months before Davy tested his at Hebburn colliery on the first day of 1816 . |
| 26 | SHEFFIELD Eagles soared to the finals of the Yorkshire Cup for the first time — despite Hull 's stunning opening when Lee Jackson touched down in less than nine seconds . |
| 27 | My hon. Friends will be interested in this matter , because it is an HMI report on the first city technology college , Kingshurst , in Solihull in the west midlands . |
| 28 | It is thought that Intel Corp will be introduce an initial Pentium chip as the first member of a family of ‘ Pentium technologies , ’ see front page . |
| 29 | Despite a devastating 6–2 , 6–2 victory over Manuela Maleeva-Fragniere in the first round of the Virginia Slims Championships in New York , which left Maleeva insisting that the American is still playing well enough to be number one , Martina believes she can feel the winds of time beginning to blow . |
| 30 | That morning Wycliffe had heard of the Glynn family for the first time and in the few hours since he had learned something about them ; about Gerald , Gina and Barry , about Christine and Aunt Sara , and about the uncles , Alfred and Maurice . |