Example sentences of "the first english " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the son of a stalwart Anglo-Catholic Halifax loved the form of the first English Prayer Book , that of 1549 under King Edward VI . |
| 2 | After half an hour the first English injury occurred , Andy Lloyd going into the record books as the possessor of the briefest of all Test careers . |
| 3 | He said afterwards that he had understood Terry had come out just to allow him to reach his goal , but it was an unfortunate end to a splendid innings , which made him the first English batsman since Barrington in 1967 to score three consecutive centuries in a series . |
| 4 | UNFORTUNATELY , I was unable to be present at the luncheon at a London hotel on Tuesday when the Duke of Gloucester presented the first English Tourist Board car park awards . |
| 5 | Kamara had no great love for Scottish strikers ; in April 1988 he made legal history as the first English League player to be fined in court for an on-pitch assault . |
| 6 | When the first English settlers sailed up the Chesapeake Bay on America 's eastern coast , they found an estuary worthy of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 's fable — vast , limpid and dense with marine life , sustained by the unique mix of brackish water and nutrients that make estuaries the richest marine incubators in the world . |
| 7 | Matilda was the first English princess since the seventh century whose year of birth is precisely known ; as for her youthful marriage , this appears to have been becoming commoner as marriage alliances were sought with ever more reckless haste by the great dynasts of the twelfth century . |
| 8 | There is , for example , the familiar reference to ‘ playing at Creag ’ ( i.e. Creag-et ) in the wardrobe accounts for the first English Prince of Wales for March 1300 . |
| 9 | He was the first English king ( as Irish Catholics still considered him ) to visit the country since Richard III in 1394 and when he entered Dublin on 24 March , with his old friend , Tyrconnel , whom James had created a duke , riding before him , he received a rapturous reception , with bells ringing , girls in white scattering flowers in front of him , and the clergy carrying the host in a monstrance . |
| 10 | According to Andrew Boorde , the author of the first English book of domestic medicine ( his Dyetary ) lettuce was to be avoided at all costs by anyone who valued his or her sex life . |
| 11 | The first English school in which sex education was formally given was Abbotsholme School whose first headmaster , Cecil Reddie , introduced the idea in the autumn term of 1889 . |
| 12 | He put on the first English show of American Abstract Expressionists , and the British critics sniffed . |
| 13 | He accomplished fifty-one large folio plates for Moore and Lindley 's The Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland ( 1855 ) , the first English book so illustrated , and two hundred plates for the four-volume Nature-printed British Sea-Weeds ( 1859 ) . |
| 14 | This was the first English Bible printed in Roman type and with verse divisions , which are among the reasons why it was enormously popular and , for the next fifty years , the most commonly owned and read version in England . |
| 15 | The only two comparative rarities are Hill 's first edition of 1560 , and the first English edition of the Geneva version , printed by Christopher Barker in 1576 . |
| 16 | To take the most extreme case , the first English comedy is generally reckoned to be Nicholas Udall 's Ralph Roister-Doister ( date uncertain , but c.1560 ) . |
| 17 | And Russia is , after all , where the first English joint-stock company , of the sort whose shares we would recognise on the market today , got off the ground . |
| 18 | The first English factory to manufacture looking glass plates was set up by Sir Robert Mansell in the reign of James I. |
| 19 | Above : Engraving of the first English aeronaut , James Sadler Esq . |
| 20 | This ambiguous situation led to the first English clash with Spain . |
| 21 | It is no accident that Londoners were to be found financing enterprises in the shires — Henry Fyner , a goldsmith , had built the first English blast furnace at Hartfield , Sussex — and helping to create the country 's stock of ‘ social overhead capital ’ — roads and bridges , schools and colleges . |
| 22 | Who was the first English professional to score 300 ? |
| 23 | In January 1993 they will be publishing the first English translation of Alois Riegel 's nineteenth century book on the history of ornament . |
| 24 | A bilingual catalogue , the first English language monograph on Tosani , accompanies the exhibition . |
| 25 | Yet even scientific curiosity in such places is minute in this country , and I fear that our national outlook is still tainted by that Anglo-Saxon authoritarianism that the first English settlers took with them to the New World . |
| 26 | The first English cookery book recipes for tomatoes appear only at the beginning of the nineteenth century . |
| 27 | Hannah Glasse 's book , The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy was first published in 1747 in the 1751 edition appears what is possibly the first English printed recipe for an ice cream . |
| 28 | Although the Criterion was the first English periodical to print the work of Cocteau , Valery and Proust , it seems always to have been Eliot 's fate to espouse causes just at the point when they are about to disappear or to disintegrate . |
| 29 | The first English translation of Artemidorus 's Oneirocritica , by Robert Woods , was published in 1606 . |
| 30 | Who : The Minister for Industry What : Cuts symbolic red tape When : Today Where : Tadchester New Town Why : To launch the first English Development Zone |