Example sentences of "first [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NME ca n't claim to be the first off the blocks with coverage of this splenetic musical bastard — that honour has to go to the now sadly defunct Sounds . |
| 2 | First off the presses will be Buildings of Michigan , of Iowa , of the District of Columbia and of Alaska ( priced between £19.95 and £27.50 each ) . |
| 3 | Any wave approaching the coast from the open sea will usually reach shallower water first off the headlands . |
| 4 | Prop Dean Sampson scored first for the visitors after three minutes and they took complete command when centre Tony Smith struck twice to make it 18–0 . |
| 5 | The players will train at Bradford next week and have three days together in Wales prior to the game the first between the countries since England won convincingly at Ebbw Vale eight years ago . |
| 6 | The agreement is the first between the nations since a 1970s pact on polar bear hunting . |
| 7 | Delaney took risks , plummeting feet first through the hatchways , and partly breaking his descent with the handrails , falling like a parachutist , rolling instantly deploying his Uzi against … |
| 8 | The January Sales have become a major event — many people queue overnight in London 's Oxford Street so they can be first through the doors of the big department stores . |
| 9 | Braintree man George Brown , left , was first through the doors of the £1.1 million Halstead Lodge nursing home . |
| 10 | Think first about the repetitions Blake uses : ‘ charter 'd ’ occurs twice in the first stanza , and ‘ marks ’ three times . |
| 11 | and this couple over there must think first about the children |
| 12 | Her hyperactivity and restlessness were taken up in the constant roaming , first about the churches in her own neighbourhood , then to religious sites in England , then on pilgrimage in Europe , all of them respectable things to do . |
| 13 | Within two years , he had joined the payroll , first as a PPS , then as a junior whip . |
| 14 | From 1942 to 1945 he served in the Royal Air Force , first as a general-duties medical officer in Bomber Command , then as a neuropsychiatry specialist , when he was much influenced by ( Sir ) Charles Symonds [ q.v . ] . |
| 15 | That case involved a solicitor who was a salaried partner in the first of the firms involved in the case and an employee in sole charge of a branch office of the other firm giving undertakings to a bank to pay over certain funds which were shortly due to come under his firm 's control to the credit of individuals who were seeking loans from that bank , the undertakings being accepted as security for the loans . |
| 16 | I might even get to the office and be measured and out again before the first of the boys arrived . |
| 17 | Since the first of the resolutions ( Resolution 14 ) proposes a change to the Company 's Articles of Association , it will have to be moved as a special resolution . |
| 18 | The death of Aegidius was recorded within the account of the Loire wars in the Angers chronicle , and his son Syagrius later appears as the first of the opponents and victims of Childeric 's son Clovis . |
| 19 | The first of the themes I want to mention — a resolute opposition to the psychologism of Mill and others — is stressed at the beginning of each series of lectures . |
| 20 | Lakefield Canoe Club has always specialised in running wild water rivers and this is not the first of the clubs pioneering ventures into little known canoeing waters . |
| 21 | In 1982 , Lloyd identified those needs and filled the vacuum by providing the first of the clubs that the 1990's tennis player — and his family — desired . |
| 22 | Pew turned with a scream , but he turned the wrong way , and ran straight into the first of the horses . |
| 23 | Mark Nicholson , who plays for Scottish Students next month against the English Students , ran from his own 22 to put Gareth Williams over for the first of the visitors ' seven tries . |
| 24 | The first of the CDs is in the shops on Monday , comprising the current hit ‘ Losing My Religion ’ and live versions of ‘ Stand ’ , ‘ Turn You Inside Out ’ and ‘ World Leader Pretend ’ . |
| 25 | The first of the Trios , K254 , is really a ‘ Divertimento ’ , and the last , K564 , is also a slight work ( though a great favourite of mine ) . |
| 26 | The first of the pros were already finishing their rounds on the 18th green . |
| 27 | That empire was founded by Cyrus the Great , the first of the Achaemenids , a ma of great character . |
| 28 | In 1525 , parliament was sufficiently alarmed by ‘ the damnable opinions of heresy ’ of ‘ the heretic Luther and his disciples ’ to pass the first of the acts which sought to prevent Lutheran literature being brought into the kingdom . |
| 29 | And then we stayed a few days in London and we went to the Baths and we went to the zoo and we went to all the science , by either the old trams or the first of the buses that Cos they complete with tram-riding and that was rather exciting in London , seeing the all the top hats and people in coats , tails and things . |
| 30 | He was lying on the large double bed with the first of the ice-packs over one side of his face . |