Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Daalny had acted , after all ; she must have taken the second key during Vespers , from the nail where at noon she had watched the porter hang the first one , but she had had to wait for near-darkness before using it . |
| 2 | Telecine now gets the direction to run the first piece of 16mm film — the familiar opening graphics sequence together with the sound-on-film theme music . |
| 3 | However , as the now-famous story purports , the evening after Nation had instructed his agent to say no to the Doctor Who offer , he and Tony Hancock had a serious disagreement , resulting in the writer catching the first train back to London the following morning , with no work , and a central heating system in his flat to pay for . |
| 4 | The case marked the first use of the Organized Crime Control Act of New York State in connection with fraud on Wall Street 's financial markets . |
| 5 | As time was a most critical factor , No 4 Ferry Pool pilots at Prestwick , who had been advised of the conditions to be expected , were informed of the decision to ferry the first aircraft to Abbotsinch . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , as he began to recover from his operation , Mr Honecker clearly had to face the problem of the embassy refugees and the mass emigration , and the decision to let the first batch go was obviously his . |
| 7 | He added that the decision marked the first nationalisation under a Thatcher government . |
| 8 | This is a happy solution to the museum 's underlying financial problems exacerbated by the decision to show the first of the Memphis , Tenessee , WONDERS ( sic ) series of exhibitions , ‘ Catherine the Great ’ , which instead of making the estimated $3 million for the museum , actually lost it $1 million earlier this year . |
| 9 | ‘ As for the Handscomb case , the ratio decidendi was that a sentence of 27 years was so far beyond anything which the judiciary could have recommended as the appropriate tariff , that the decision to postpone the first review until 1991 was one which no reasonable Secretary of State could have reached . |
| 10 | Mich eventually resorted to placing a hook on tension , then continuing to tension from the hook to reach the first real crack line for ten pitches . |
| 11 | AT the end of last month the University received the first information from the UFC on its recurrent grant and funded student numbers for 1992/93 . |
| 12 | He was just out there on the Strip telling the first lady how he wants to get to know her , and the second , and hoping out loud that both of them do n't mind about the third : ‘ Because I want to get to know her , too . |
| 13 | Some organisations pay the whole cost ( especially where long distances are involved ) ; others expect the employee to pay and some state that the employee pays the first £ x and the company pays the rest . |
| 14 | And this morning the musician caught the first Concorde flight back to the US to be with his pregnant wife . |
| 15 | The construct lacking the first intron hypersensitive sites was prepared by deleting a 1kb BalI-StuI fragment from the first intron of the -300bp construct . |
| 16 | Captain Bligh of the Bounty took the first apples to Australia ; Jan van Riebeeck , the founder of Cape Settlement , took them to South Africa and the Pilgrim Fathers who boarded the Mayflower carried them to America . |
| 17 | A customer returns a skirt because the zip broke the first time she wore it . |
| 18 | This is illustrated by the RR format of instruction on the IBM 370 range , shown in Figure 3.8 ( a ) , where the result replaces the first operand . |
| 19 | The deal marks the first time a Test match will be shown live , in full , from the sub-continent . |
| 20 | The deal marks the first venture by Peabody , already the biggest US coal-mining company , into the Pacific Rim . |
| 21 | The photograph shows the first lifeboat boat to be lifted in the new hoist , the Watson class Joseph Soar ( Civil Service No. 34 ) , as part of the proving trials by the contractors , Laings . |
| 22 | The accord marked the first application of the so-called " Brady plan " designed to encourage voluntary debt reduction schemes [ see pp. 36541-42 ; 37016-17 ] . |
| 23 | Macari signed for Celtic in 1966 , and was an exciting reserve prospect during the Lisbon Lion era , when the club became the first British team to win the coveted European Cup . |
| 24 | The Club played the first of several matches against Mr. H.R. Blaker 's ‘ golf-cricketer 's team ’ which included several staff and minor players of the Kent County Cricket Club . |
| 25 | THE contest to represent the first district on the Los Angeles Board of County Supervisors hardly sounds like national news . |
| 26 | If the horse jumps the first fence stickily , a smack on landing will sharpen him up . |
| 27 | In 1882 the Legislature took the first of these courses . |
| 28 | An impressive 2-0 win over Everton left the watching Germans in no doubt that Leeds are in the mood to become the first British team to win a European tie from 3-0 down . |
| 29 | To justify its ways , this week the council releases the first draft of its National Arts and Media Strategy . |
| 30 | The law upheld the first system as long as the aristocracy was supreme . |