Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] 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 | During a demonstration to mark the first anniversary of the group 's move to its new location , 300 people , including over 160 police officers , were injured in battles between 1,400 police and at least 7,000 demonstrators . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | After 22 hectic laps and 80 miles , only half a second covered the first four . |
| 5 | The examples listed here were all from hoards , and included a dish depicting the First Labour : the hero strangling the Nemean Lion . |
| 6 | The pre-head is composed of all the unstressed syllables in a tone-unit preceding the first stressed syllable . |
| 7 | PATCHED up Instonians failed by a whisker to become the first team in five seasons to complete a home and away Harp Senior League double over Lisnagarvey . |
| 8 | It took a while to identify the first two but we 've finally managed to do that . |
| 9 | DELEGATES at this year 's CIU Annual Conference at Blackpool will have a chance to visit the first Beer and Trades Exhibition being staged at the Sandcastle Exhibition Centre on the South Promenade . |
| 10 | Aspects of the work of Marslen-Wilson and Tyler ( 1980 ) which we discussed in Chapter 6 ( see section 6.5.1 ) strongly suggest that clause interpretation begins as soon as a listener hears the first part of the clause . |
| 11 | His magnificent second innings 133 , plus a top score the first time around , has served to magnify the glaring deficiencies in the batting line-up . |
| 12 | It took me a month to pass the first aid , anti-gas and light rescue tests , and then I was allocated to the Rivermead Court post . |
| 13 | A quartet means the first refusal of all carvery scraps and use of a dog-sitting service . |
| 14 | In March 1770 Mozart received a commission to write the first opera for the following carnival season in Milan . |
| 15 | In the autumn of 1984 I introduced a bill to bring the first pension reforms into effect . |
| 16 | If this is likely , your Divisional/Section Head will arrange for the Administrative Officer ( Personnel ) to send you a self-certificate to cover the first seven days of your absence . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In mid-February 1990 the Powers announced that German flights to Berlin would also be allowed and on Aug. 5 a plane made the first Lufthansa flight to a Berlin airport since 1945 landing at Schönefeld airport ( on the outskirts of East Berlin ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Later , a change comes about , and a consensus supports the First Choice , which allows the forceful seizure of the goods , and the action , in accordance with the definition proffered earlier , is labelled ‘ evil ’ . |
| 23 | Two years later , in 1967 , ANDES was in a position to organize the first general strike by teachers to protest against cuts in the education budget in the name of rationalization . |
| 24 | In the heyday of Napoleon 's conquests he had access to fossils from all over Europe and was thus in a position to make the first comprehensive study . |
| 25 | We will , of course , move as quickly as possible , but it is most unlikely that my right hon. and learned Friend will be in a position to make the first pay and conditions order under the new Act immediately upon the expiry of the 1987 Act on 31 March 1992 . |
| 26 | But as soon as a company takes the first tentative steps from data to information , its decision processes , management structure , and even the way its work gets done begin to be transformed . |
| 27 | In a speech to mark the first anniversary of the overthrow of former President Mohammed Siyad Barre , on Jan. 26 , Farah Aydid stated his readiness for a truce , but reiterated his implacable opposition both to Mahdi Mohammed and to the idea of an international peacekeeping force , which he said would serve only to protect the " self-appointed " interim President from the Somali people . |
| 28 | But that was before , our of the blue , he received a call to tell him that Jamie had scored a final round of 60 and then had beaten Anders Forsbrand n a play-off to record the first Tour victory of his career . |