Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [art] first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Miller , the son of a Jamaican father and English mother , aroused interest by being mooted as the first black player to represent England . |
| 2 | It was not the first African paper , although nowadays some Tanzanians think that it was ; nevertheless it is the only one whose direct descendants are still in existence , and may be regarded as the first successful , viable paper ( that term has to be used in a relative sense ) edited and produced by Africans . |
| 3 | Indeed , he participates so actively that he is apparently involved in the stoning to death of Stephen , officially regarded as the first Christian martyr ( although Stephen would have seen himself , of course , as a pious Jew ) . |
| 4 | Walpole , who has been traditionally and perhaps wrongly regarded as the first British Prime Minister , always took pains to deny that he occupied such a position . |
| 5 | With large files , there will frequently be a cylinder index added as a first level index . |
| 6 | This same feeling should be carried into the first welcome meeting which should set the tone in the way that gospel singer George Beverly Shea did for Billy Graham . |
| 7 | I am presently considering what measures should be included in the first Welsh Agri-Environment Plan and will consult widely about them in due course . |
| 8 | The analysis of maximum contributions determined during 1988–89 contained in the first Legal Aid Board Annual Report ( 1989–90 ) contains the following figures relating to all courts : |
| 9 | Specific proposals will no doubt be contained in the first joint spending and budget announcement in late autumn . |
| 10 | A not untypical pattern of distortion of sensation was reported from the first documented vigil of this sort : |
| 11 | ‘ It was built as the first main processing plant to support the basic nuclear industry of the country and , of course , it has also processed fuel from Japan and Italy . |
| 12 | He carries the Staff of the Patriarchs made for the first Supreme Patriarch Volans by the warrior mage Fredrick von Tarnus after the Great War against Chaos . |
| 13 | But it was Raynor who told her things about the Castle she did not know ; how it had been built for the first High Queen of all , and how the ancient pure magic had been woven into its walls . |
| 14 | That shows that both the president 's National Party ( NP ) and the ANC intend to be prepared for the first non-racial elections for a constituent assembly ; it is also a clear sign that both of them are sure that they can convince the other parties that the path they have laid down is the one to follow . |
| 15 | Only in this case Italians do not want to stop the flood — on the contrary , it is seen as the first real chance to clean out the corruption which is endemic in the system . |
| 16 | To return to our comparison with the EEC , economic integration in the western half of Europe is seen as the first tentative step to a political union which many pay lip service to and few take seriously . |
| 17 | Pearson is seen as the first British director to be sacrificed on the altar of his art . |
| 18 | In this process electrons are pumped into the first excited atomic level by absorbing light from a laser tuned to the correct frequency . |
| 19 | Fairly regular dashes to Dublin , coupled with forays into other parts of the country saw the name of Sharon Shannon become a more widely known , leading to her being inducted into the first Arcady line-up . |
| 20 | The oral shield is rounded with an acute proximal angle , it is separated from the first lateral arm plate by the wing-like adoral shields . |
| 21 | The oral shield is separated from the first lateral arm plate by the wing-like adoral shields . |
| 22 | It is separated from the first lateral arm plate by the wing-like adoral shields . |
| 23 | It is separated from the first lateral arm plate by the wing-like adoral shields . |
| 24 | What Ho himself understood by Marxism at this stage can perhaps best be seen in the first Vietnamese Marxist revolutionary text : The Road to Revolution , published in 1926 . |
| 25 | Brigit , 45 , will be seen in the first commercial this week playing a mum worried about her daughter going to university for the first time . |
| 26 | By the early sixties … it was clear that neither the efforts made in the first post-war decade nor the developments outlined in Mr Butler 's White Paper were reducing — or were likely to reduce — the volume of crime or the numbers of persistent offenders . |
| 27 | Yet it is migration to and from rural areas that has been the main concern of rural geographers in the last century , and so attention is now turned to the first major theme of this chapter , rural population change . |
| 28 | Either way , she was looking forward to putting their plans into action with a relish she had n't felt since the first heady moment of signing the lease . |
| 29 | The issue brings together the main papers presented at the first Latin American consultation of representatives of theological seminaries who met together in July 1990 to discuss the role of communication and theology in their institutions . |
| 30 | During the first period after independence , development was hampered by the first civil war , during which many schools were taken over by the army . |