Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] [coord] the first " in BNC.

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1 The first Homebase opening of 1993 took place on St George 's day and the first customers received an appropriate welcome with gifts of English red roses and St George 's flags .
2 Nguyen Ha Phan , 58 , was the mayor of Hau Giang ; Hong Ha , 63 , was the director of the office of the party central committee ; Nguyen Dinh Tu , 59 , was a member of the State Council and director of the National Institute of Atomic Energy ; Trong My Hoa , 46 , was vice-president of the Vietnam Women 's Union and the first woman to reach the party 's upper echelons ; Do Quang Thang , 64 , was secretary of Quang Ngai province party committee .
3 Hari looked over the woman 's shoulder and the first thing she saw was the leather boots standing on the table .
4 In 1990 the Association 's Annual Conference achieved nationwide television coverage because of its involvement with ITV 's Telethon and the First Leisure Corporation .
5 Stalin 's death and the first limited signs of de/tente and disengagement in Europe ( notably the Austrian State Treaty of 1955 ) heightened the importance of national sensibilities in Eastern Europe and made it advantageous to erect a multilateral fig leaf of collective security over the USSR 's continued domination of her neighbours .
6 The Gulamalis never received the agreement form , the tenants ' deposit or the first month 's rent .
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