Example sentences of "first [noun sg] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The historian 's main points or ideas can usually be discovered in ( a ) the first and/or last paragraph of a chapter or section , ( b ) the first sentence of a paragraph — this is the key point for the paragraph and it is usually expressed in one sentence . |
| 2 | The winner may now become Glover 's first runner in a Group race . |
| 3 | The water level drops and then , woosh , up it all comes , first rising like a column — at this stage it looks like a vaguely blue shaggy ink cap toadstool — then blasting itself apart in a flourish of steam . |
| 4 | The Jarvis family had all come down in the world , considering the money their Victorian grandfather , a manufacturer of bathroom fittings , had made for them , Ernest with the dwindling Cambridge School , Evelina nutty as a squirrel 's cage and with her first sojourn in a nursing home behind her , Cecilia married to a Customs officer . |
| 5 | First bank off the mark is Lloyds , which slashed the cost of personal loans , overdrafts and credit cards by between 1.4 and 2.8 per cent — the first reduction for a year . |
| 6 | He had learnt to cook in his first bedsit as a student . |
| 7 | We set off , stopped at random , pottered around , changed our plans , and got the first crossing from a port we had n't arrived at . |
| 8 | All these courses offer help in preparing a CV , the first hurdle in a job search . |
| 9 | The vendors ' first response to a request for warranties is likely to be that they should not be required to give any because the management knows far more about the day-to-day running of the company than they do . |
| 10 | We are a bit tired of getting up early ( breakfast 7.30 , start teaching at 8.30 — and that 's a concession to us lazy foreigners , since teaching starts at 8 normally here ) so Comrade Wu kindly arranged for us to have breakfast in our rooms today — the first opportunity for a lie-in we 've had ! |
| 11 | The first hope of a breakthrough in the saga emerged during a meeting between Mr Shevardnadze and Hans-Dietrich Genscher , the West German Foreign Minister , at the United Nations . |
| 12 | This was the first case of a person brought to trial under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act . |
| 13 | The first case of a patient with familial adenomatous polyposis ( FAP ) who developed pancreatitis after routine screening and biopsy of the anpulla of Vater is described . |
| 14 | We report the first case of a patient with FAP who developed pancreatitis after routine screening and biopsy of the ampulla of Vater . |
| 15 | Bruno 's promoter , Micky Duff , urging Lewis to cash in on his first defence with a summer clash at Wembley stadium , said : ‘ That kind of money puts Frank in a very solid position . |
| 16 | Stretch , making the first defence of a title he won more than a year ago when he out-pointed Gary Cooper , caught Wormald with a perfectly timed right hook to the chin . |
| 17 | Challenger has a good chance of hitting a Soviet tank with its first shell at a distance of more than 2000 m . |
| 18 | Mrs Doris Ledger and Mrs Jenny Metcalfe , two members of the fund raising committee , officially signalled the start of building work by wielding a hammer to knock out the first brick in a wall on Ward 42 . |
| 19 | But it would be absurd that he should be able to plead the jury 's verdict in the first trial as a bar to the second . |
| 20 | When Grimsby offered him his first trial with a Football League club , he gave away a penalty after two minutes . |
| 21 | The proposed arrangement did not concern Berlin alone since there were Soviet specialists who argued that ‘ the creation of a neutralised and demilitarised city of West Berlin is estimated by the government of the GDR as the first link in a chain of measures , the sum total of which should lead to a united , democratic , peace-loving Germany ’ . |
| 22 | Although it may take some practice to get used to the idea of changing the seemingly natural number scale , you will soon find that you automatically consider whether a transformation would aid analysis when you first look at a batch of data . |
| 23 | Lloyd recommends that the British public at large should pop along to Junior Wimbledon and get their first look at a player he believes can finally end the seemingly interminable search for Britain 's first major male champion since the sepia days of Fred Perry . |
| 24 | In that different method we frame our question in the first instance as a question about corporate responsibility . |
| 25 | The main thesis of the existentialist approach is that in order to elucidate the full significance of ontological claims conveyed by existential propositions we ought to begin by focusing attention upon the one for whom the " problem of existence " presents itself in the first instance as a problem of his own existence . |
| 26 | Against the evidence of the German authorities and the German police , and given that even the Israeli secret service thinks that others may have been involved , would it not at least be a sensible plan to talk to the Arab League about the very serious problem of Lockerbie and at least consider accepting the request to send British and American judges in the first instance to a trial under Libyan law ? |
| 27 | The request was granted — in the first instance for a year . |
| 28 | Information about the activities to be included will be obtained in the first instance from a synthesis of existing published material which will be used to summarise these firms on the basis of a number of standard characteristics . |
| 29 | Conference participants agreed that regular meetings would be preceded in the first instance by a meeting in September of arms control experts who would finalize details of an agreement in time for a plenary session scheduled for October . |
| 30 | They should be fitted in the first instance by a community nurse , who will show you and the resident how to look after the catheter and how to empty the bag . |