Example sentences of "the first real " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new regular-interval timetable was actually understandable by the common man , the first real hint of a corporate localised identity , and the first appearance centre stage of one of the new breed of managers — Chris Green . |
| 2 | Mich eventually resorted to placing a hook on tension , then continuing to tension from the hook to reach the first real crack line for ten pitches . |
| 3 | This week arguably saw the first real skirmishes of that impending struggle for succession : the sub-text of set-piece deliveries by Sir Geoffrey Howe , Kenneth Baker , Michael Heseltine et al . |
| 4 | Apart from winter fishing , this is the first real outing of the year , and always a super ritual for my father and myself . |
| 5 | Ratification of the Maastricht deal is likely to prove the first real test of Mr Major 's new Government . |
| 6 | Most economists expect that the first real signs of an upturn will not appear until second-quarter figures are available . |
| 7 | When , in the seventeenth century , the first real drainage engineers arrived , equipped with a literally world-changing technology , they too left their monument , in the shape of an entirely new landscape : the Fens . |
| 8 | Stac Polly was the first real climb either of our dogs enjoyed . |
| 9 | It was the first real ballet of John 's to be seen at Covent Garden , since his dances for operas had so far all been on a small scale , and it was far from being a success . |
| 10 | Greek civilization not only gave rise to philosophy but it also produced , in the fifth century BC , the first real historians . |
| 11 | Skiing was one of the best-kept secrets in the world until Mathias Zdarsky invented downhill or Alpine skiing and opened the first real ski school near Vienna by the beginning of the twentieth century . |
| 12 | I looked down in misery tinged with the first real touch of hatred I had ever felt . |
| 13 | Prologue The time trial before the first real stage of the race . |
| 14 | In the same year , Lyman Spitzer 's slim volume Physics of fully Ionised Gases gave a canonical account of the theoretical basis of high-temperature plasma physics and the first real text-book on the subject . |
| 15 | ‘ Farrar was the first real researcher into the history of teaching the deaf , and unearthed many previously unknown items of literature about the deaf and was largely responsible for building up Oxley 's Library of the Deaf ( this Library was largely fragmented after Oxley 's death , and many rare articles and books disappeared ) . |
| 16 | The first real brush between the two sides came on 17 December when Cumberland 's horsemen approached the rear of the baggage train between Shap and Penrith , but it was not till next day that a more serious encounter occurred . |
| 17 | In January the first real snow fell . |
| 18 | The first real scare came while flying over the Mediterranean . |
| 19 | The boat lurched as the first real waves lifted the bow and dropped it again . |
| 20 | The first real growth is beginning to show — St Helena is now acquiring a considerable character and visitors are flocking in . |
| 21 | And he probably heard Hawaiian recordings , because we 're talking about the 1920s now , when phonograph records were getting to be a pretty widespread thing — the first real window on the rest of the musical world . |
| 22 | The first real test came in 1570 , with the appointment of Richard Curteys as Bishop of Chichester , succeeding the elderly Bishop Barlow . |
| 23 | But here , out in the open , was the first real break with his father . |
| 24 | ‘ If I had that much money and it was the first real money I had ever made , ’ said the businessman at last , ‘ I 'd put a quarter of it in government savings bonds , and with the rest of it I 'd buy as much land or property in and around Tollemarche and Edmonton as I could lay my hands on . ’ |
| 25 | The small , hot and compact companion of Sirius was discovered in 1915 — the first real investigation of the Dogon did not take place until at least the 1930s and 1940s . |
| 26 | The ITN film , providing the first real evidence of ill-treatment , increases pressure for military intervention . |
| 27 | But just when it seemed that the former were to disappear up a one-club road to exclusive excellence , along came Newport and beat them to mark the first real return on all the investment at Rodney Parade . |
| 28 | The Lemonheads have been touring for about three months , first in America and now in Europe , and this has been the first real glitch they 've encountered . |
| 29 | The book is , as it claims to be , the first real survey of the period , other writers having extracted individual companies or artists from a dauntingly rich and complex panorama . |
| 30 | This adds greater pressure to the bilingual setting , but is the first real attempt to consider the implications of bilingualism for deaf children . |