Example sentences of "first [noun sg] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first sentence of the fifth paragraph , which started ‘ Risk attributable to drugs is poorly estimated , ’ should have started ‘ Risk attributable to disease is poorly estimated . ’ |
| 2 | Surely Ivan 's first sentence of the New Year had alerted her ? |
| 3 | Select the first sentence of the second paragraph . |
| 4 | An editorial error resulted in the wrong reference being given at the end of the first sentence of the second paragraph of this editorial by Tom Keighlty and Jan Maycock ( 28 November 1992 , p 1310 ) . |
| 5 | The first harbinger of the outside world came when the bedroom door suddenly opened and a maid came in with a tray . |
| 6 | The unraced Rockawhile , Henry Cecil 's first runner of the 1992 Flat season , can get the Newmarket trainer off to a flying start in the Bluebell Fillies ' Stakes ( 4.30 ) . |
| 7 | The next morning when the bells of the abbey tolled for Prime , the first prayer of the monastic day , Corbett was up , dressed and gently kicked a sleepy , grunting Ranulf awake . |
| 8 | In 1905 he became one of the founders and first rear-commodore of the Royal Motor Yacht Club . |
| 9 | The Department of Chemistry was the first building of the initial development — mid 1920s to 1930s ; subsequent further expansion took place in the 1950s and 1960s . |
| 10 | Yes , already the numbness of shock was fading , and she felt the first spasm of the enormous pain that awaited her , and she was frightened . |
| 11 | In 1933 he made the first crossing of the uninhabited interior wilderness of Iceland with a wheeled vehicle — his bicycle . |
| 12 | Scotland 's first try of the under-21 campaign followed . |
| 13 | That was probably the understatement of the decade , she acknowledged ruefully some hours later , as she grabbed the first opportunity of the entire afternoon to simply stop moving and stand still in one place for longer than ten seconds . |
| 14 | AMERICAN scientists are scouring the country for the first case of the bizarre new disease ‘ acquired immuno-deficiency syndrome ’ ( AIDS ) in patients who have undergone major surgery . |
| 15 | On 1 January 1993 Brian Garroway FCA , will become the first chairman of the new Lloyd 's Regulatory Board . |
| 16 | He served for three years , originally as chairman , and it is as the first chairman of the future Labour party that he achieved his principal prominence in labour history . |
| 17 | For example , in The New Unhappy Lords , written by A.K. Chesterton , the first chairman of the National Front , a complex web of deception and intrigue is described and only when Chapter 25 is reached does he suggest , almost as an afterthought , that the ‘ master-manipulators and master-conspirators ’ were Jewish , with the proviso that not all Jews were implicated in the conspiracy . |
| 18 | ( And Baden-Powell had been asked to become the first chairman of the Juvenile Organizations Committee , established by the Home Secretary , Herbert Samuel in 1916 . ) |
| 19 | He was the first chairman of the Meteorological Office , keeper of one museum and secretary to another , governor of two public schools , two Oxford colleges and helped administer two universities . |
| 20 | THE FORM book proved a poor guide yesterday when Napoli , who stumbled into the UEFA Cup 's second round in midweek on penalties , won 3-0 against Milan , who had breezed through their first defence of the European Cup , writes Phil Shaw . |
| 21 | Rejected reaffirmation of Labour 's former policy of unilaterally renouncing the use or possession of British nuclear weapons , and the ‘ unconditional removal of all nuclear weapons and nuclear bases from British soil and waters within the first parliament of the next Labour government ’ . |
| 22 | The present tax was introduced in 1965 in the first Budget of the Labour government elected in 1964 . |
| 23 | The Society 's first winner of the new season was the irrepressible Robbie Kennelly ( 9 ) , he played the front nine in a modest 16pts after a blank at the ninth despite another blank at the tenth Robbie covered the last eight holes in a blistering 22pts with birdies at 11 and 7 for a grand total of 38pts . |
| 24 | THE FIRST winner of the renamed ‘ Peter Cooper Apprentice of the Year ’ award in Foster Wheeler Wood Group [ FWWG ] is 24-year-old Paul Usher . |
| 25 | It is the first assessment of the expanded IT Advanced Courses programme . |
| 26 | A first assessment of the non-market benefits of woodlands has been completed by the Forestry Commission . |
| 27 | They had six hours twenty minutes to survive , but the first hour of the last day saw five wickets crash for 78 . |
| 28 | An auspicious day in cutter history as it was the first instance of the reigning monarch travelling by revenue cutter . |
| 29 | The young Aberdeen side were relegated from the first division of the indoor league , but they are better disciplined outdoors and with such a wealth of talent at their disposal they will take some shifting . |
| 30 | Shannon , with their vaunted pack , were the favourites and the leaders in the first division of the All Ireland League . |