Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [v-ing] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a bit perplexing the first time I heard the chant though , because of the other associations that could be drawn from it ! |
| 2 | Shooter , described in court as a salesman , was caught after a plain-clothes police officer posed as a courier taking the first of the blackmail money to a pick-up point at Edinburgh Airport . |
| 3 | The examples listed here were all from hoards , and included a dish depicting the First Labour : the hero strangling the Nemean Lion . |
| 4 | The pre-head is composed of all the unstressed syllables in a tone-unit preceding the first stressed syllable . |
| 5 | A possible response to this may be that if we want to understand the concept of knowledge we must treat the use of ‘ I know ’ ( the activity of avouching ) as the primary thing , but that there are other psychological verbs — such as ‘ I hope ’ — in which a speaker using the first person singular of the present tense does simply express his mental state . |
| 6 | In New York , meanwhile , the UN Security Council was expected today to pass unanimously a resolution establishing the first war crimes tribunal since 1945-49 . |
| 7 | Secondly , the Congress adopted a resolution initiating the First Five Year Plan ( FFYP ) of industrialisation and collectivisation of agriculture , both of which had long been advocated by the opposition . |
| 8 | The central event of the former 's pontificate can hardly fail to be seen as Humanae Vitae in 1968 , central because its publication marked a watershed separating the first years of enthusiasm , of an optimistic post-conciliar implementation in which Rome and leading Catholic theologians were still working more or less hand in hand ( as they had done in the latter years of the Council ) from the far more contestatory and unsure later period . |
| 9 | The applicant sought judicial review and an order directing the first bench to determine the information and relied upon section 9(2) of the Magistrates Courts Act 1980 . |
| 10 | sitting as a deputy judge of the Queen 's Bench Division granted the plaintiff in an action for breach of an agreement embodied in a Tomlin order , Jean-Pierre Irtelli , an injunction restraining the first defendants , Renato Squatriti and Livia Vidor ( trading as L'Aiglon ) ( ‘ the defendants ’ ) , ‘ by themselves or their servants and agents from selling disposing or otherwise dealing with seeking to sell dispose or deal with the premises at 220 , Westbourne Grove , London W.11 . ’ |