Example sentences of "with the first [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Toads hibernate during the winter , and become active again when the temperature rises to about 6°C , migrating to their breeding ponds with the first mild weather of the spring . |
| 2 | OXFORD 'S David Penney was spot-on after 16 minutes with the first successful penalty of the season against Bristol Rovers . |
| 3 | ‘ We ca n't throw this system away in five years ’ time , like Pearl is now doing with the first general ledger it installed in the mid-eighties . ’ |
| 4 | The birth of the search industry in Britain was officially recognised in the media , with the first authoritative article on search appearing in The Director in 1961 . |
| 5 | However , in Amphioplus there is a more or less superficial second papilla next to the infradental papilla which is homologous with the first oral tentacle scale . |
| 6 | Christ , I was about to do the Technicolor Yawn all over this girl 's jacket , through the tears and rusting her zips and filling her pockets , and probably send Jamie flying across the room into the beer-crates under the speaker stacks with the first awful heave , and here were these two trading absurd biker fantasies . |
| 7 | Trim the top large piece on one side so that it slopes to join with the first small piece , and trim the very top small piece in the same way . |
| 8 | Two years ago , Mr Erich Honecker , who succeeded Walter Ulbricht as East German leader in 1971 , thought he had crowned the post-war settlement and division of Germany with the first official visit to the Federal Republic . |
| 9 | The ancient-astronaut industry really got under way in 1969 , with the first English-language publication of a book called Chariots of the Gods ? , by Erich von Däniken . |
| 10 | Wimbledon as usual , led the way , with the first substantial grant . |
| 11 | ‘ Do n't worry , ’ he answered with the first real amusement of the day , ‘ mine does . ’ |
| 12 | She turned to him with the first real interest in her face that he 'd seen . |
| 13 | I looked down in misery tinged with the first real touch of hatred I had ever felt . |
| 14 | A privileged account of racial prejudice in the police is provided by an interview with the first black policeman to join the Metropolitan Police , Sergeant Roberts , who is still a serving officer nineteen years later : |
| 15 | At all events , she was awake with the first streaky light of dawn . |
| 16 | WHILE the Ipswich fans taunted ‘ You 're going down with the Arsenal ’ , Town star John Wark predicted that troubled Manchester United could still walk off with the first Premier League Championship . |
| 17 | The volume concludes with the first country-house poem published in English , an encomium of the countess 's estate at Cookham , in which the passing of the seasons suggests the ephemerality of patronage relations ; the walks bear ‘ summer Liveries ’ , and the prospect of hills and vales appears to ‘ preferre some strange unlook 'd for sute ’ only as long as their mistress is in residence . |
| 18 | These incursions were , however , small-scale and localised compared with the first major upheaval in the life of Tudor Sussex , the Reformation . |
| 19 | Sausalito , California-based Autodesk Inc has come out with the first major product from its European Software Centre in Neuchatel , Switzerland : AutoCAD Release 11 for the IBM RS/6000 line of workstations . |
| 20 | This distinction is absolutely vital because it uncovers and deals with the first major misconception of doubt — the idea that in doubting a believer is betraying faith and surrendering to unbelief . |
| 21 | Only refugees with firm arrangements for travel into another country were admitted during the border closure , which was in response to the alleged failure of the UN to disburse some US$40,000,000 promised for help with the first major influx of refugees after the August 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait . |
| 22 | With the first major implementation target met , Pearl is turning its attentions to further developments . |
| 23 | Their call is timed to coincide with the first European Day for disabled people . |
| 24 | Their call is timed to coincide with the first European Day for disabled people . |
| 25 | Now , looking out over the heartland to the eastern sky already flushed with the first faint gold of dawn , he said aloud : ‘ I let my father die deliberately . |
| 26 | He was cold to the bone , and with the first faint grey of pre-dawn he got up and began to walk the passageway , stamping his chilled feet with an infinitely small , puny sound against the flags of the flooring . |
| 27 | He caught the wide , levelled eyes watching him with the first faint shadow of doubt and disquiet , almost distaste , and laughed shortly . |
| 28 | If no start name is specified , the listing will start with the first alphanumerical module in LIFESPAN ; if no end module name is specified , the listing will end at the last alphanumerical module in LIFESPAN . |
| 29 | It 's at this stage that one or other of the partners may start to get an eye so roving as to become a nose and take up with the first cloth-eared bimbo who gazes up or down and says , ‘ I ca n't believe you 're over forty — that 's sooo sexy . ’ |
| 30 | The old order changeth , and how — back at the end of the 1970s , Ted Dexter and Honeywell Information Systems Ltd got together to propose to the British Broadcasting Corporation that television coverage of cricket could be enhanced with a little judicious computer intervention and the age of computer-aided sports broadcasting was born : for a decade and more a Level 6 minicomputer or successor followed the cameras and trundled around the cricket grounds of England and Wales in the back of a truck as Honeywell and successor company Bull HN Information Systems Ltd maintained the tradition — but with the first one-day match of the current series against Australia at Old Trafford yesterday , what was the legend at the bottom of the caption but ‘ Intel processing ’ . |