Example sentences of "first [noun] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first case a combination of inflation and world growth ultimately saved us ( as it did so many other sixties ' optimists ) , and subsequently ammonia and fertilizers became one of our most successful businesses . |
| 2 | In the first case a woman is seeking compensation for the death in 1962 of her 10-month-old daughter from leukaemia ; the girl 's father worked as a fitter at Sellafield for nearly 30 years and has since also died of cancer . |
| 3 | Take-up on that scale could make Mr Major 's first budget a lot more memorable than it first appeared . |
| 4 | The new League kicked off with a 25 per cent drop in attendances compared with the old First Division a year ago . |
| 5 | Aston Villa v Arsenal With Liverpool back at the top of the First Division a draw will do neither of their immediate pursuers much good . |
| 6 | Throughout the first months a beginner learns that in executing the basic reverse punch and the lunge punch , his hands have to withdraw back to the body in order to repeat the procedure over and over again . |
| 7 | It therefore appears that in the first experiment a match between parts of the superficial representation of the passage was influencing the way that a deep anaphor , the pronoun they , was processed . |
| 8 | At the same time , separatist politicsans were predicting that ETA would make its first action a kidnapping rather than a shooting or bombing . |
| 9 | AT first glance a charge for Environmental Tyre Disposal might seem like another way for garages to deprive motorists of cash . |
| 10 | It is at first glance a paragon of English coastal charm and tranquility . |
| 11 | And he said er , mm , would you er , would you just , erm , do n't raise the clutch just put the car into first gear a minute . |
| 12 | Advocacy is the skill of good presentation and information , and that starts on the day that you first interview a client . |
| 13 | In the first bedroom a door opened onto a short flight of rickety steps that led to an attic . |
| 14 | In the first storey a light showed in what was probably one of the Palace 's drawing-rooms or studies . |
| 15 | The first appearance a child would make after being charged would be before a youth court , formerly called a juvenile court . |
| 16 | But today 's changes mean that the contribution rate on the first £43 a week is only 2 per cent . |
| 17 | The umpire was pleased with the reaction , but ‘ awarded ’ the driver of the first Land-Rover a gunshot wound to the leg and put his vehicle out of action . |
| 18 | To women , entering the trade without undergoing any of the initiation rites , excluded from the union , the whole business of fat and lean — one of the first things a boy apprentice would learn about — can have meant little . |
| 19 | The level of settlements is well down on the eight per cent recorded in the first quarter a year ago . |
| 20 | In simple terms the first questions a bank would ask were : has the business got a long term future ? |
| 21 | The first night a girl put her hand inside my trousers was during a Kenneth More film about the sinking of the Titanic . |
| 22 | I stayed in hotels to begin with and when I finally moved into a flat , on the first night a rat ran across my chest . |
| 23 | The first day a battalion moved in , the Provost Sergeant would march to the market cross , accompanied by drummers and fifers who then started playing to attract attention . |
| 24 | The first day a tyre burst with such a loud crack I thought someone was shooting at us . |
| 25 | The Reader Emeritus in French Literature at the University of Oxford and Honorary Fellow of Somerville College , who was ‘ well known for her studies of the lives and works of writers such as Baudelaire , Rimbaud , Gautier , Eliot and Gide ’ ( I quote her dust-wrapper ; first edition , of course ) , who devoted two large books and many years of her life to the author of Madame Bovary , chose as frontispiece to her first volume a portrait of ‘ Gustave Flaubert by an unknown painter ’ . |
| 26 | In the first example a transition is accomplished when a single word pivots on its axis of signification during the course of a sentence : |
| 27 | A raffle will also be held during the evening , which is organised around a Japanese theme , with the first prize a return trip for two to Nagasaki . |
| 28 | The typical monthly or quarterly report has on its first page a list of problems , that is , the areas where results fall short of expectations . |
| 29 | The result was a painting of " flying cyclamens " , one of the earliest to be sold at her own first exhibition a year later . |
| 30 | The first pattern a beginner learns is called ‘ taegeuk ’ , the correct name for which is actually ‘ taegeuk poomse ’ . |