Example sentences of "first [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she had made up her mind never to allow herself to get close to him , in case there was a repetition of that first rather disturbing kiss . |
| 2 | After the congress the BSP confirmed its intention of appealing to the constitutional court against a recently enacted law on the confiscation of party property , one of the first measures brought in by the country 's first wholly non-communist government formed in November [ see pp. 38583-84 ] . |
| 3 | In 1773 Mozart also wrote his first wholly original piano concerto . |
| 4 | In amongst Esso petroleum storage tanks on the north side of the river a high Cleopatra Needle by old fortifications marks the memorial to Henry Bell whose Comet , the first commercially successful steam ship , was launched on the Clyde in 1812 . |
| 5 | This was the first commercially successful steam engine and was used for pumping water out of a mine . |
| 6 | Newcomen must have done various experiments before he erected this first commercially successful engine , but we have no record of these . |
| 7 | The first commercially available quinolone product was nalidixic acid ( 2 ) — a 1,8-naphthyridonecarboxylic acid or 8-azaquinolonecarboxylic acid — produced in 1962 by G. Y. Lesher and coworkers . |
| 8 | It 's the first commercially available amplifier to be based on ‘ current feedback ’ technology , which is supposed to provide high speed , wide bandwidth amplification . |
| 9 | It was at the Leith Street premises that the Edinburgh Deaf and Dumb Benevolent Society , the first properly constituted adult deaf organisation in the world , was instituted in 1835 . |
| 10 | ON the first bitterly cold day this year — the Key Street offices had a ‘ temporary interruption ’ of the water supply on , while Anglian Water proceeded to dig up the water mains . |
| 11 | But after the first somewhat angry alienation' , apart from Macaulay who remained doubtful , the honesty of the old antislavery leadership and of the Young England Agency men enabled them ‘ to play successfully into each other 's hands . |
| 12 | Ironically , in view of Tanzania 's later advance along a socialist path , this proved to be the first entirely commercial radio service in English-speaking Africa . |
| 13 | Her nursing activity would be right on our first less rigoristic formulation of the Benthamite view , for it does good by way of lessening pain and promoting pleasure and either does no harm at all , or none that is significant . |
| 14 | Buried deep within the entrails of the US budget compromise is the first apparently successful attempt on Capitol Hill to come down heavily on junk bonds and leveraged buyouts ( LBO ) . |
| 15 | It was apparently difficult to see if Ruffini 's proof was complete and despite a further attempt by him at the problem , in 1813 , the credit for supplying the first generally accepted proof of impossibility goes to Abel ( pronounced " Arbel " ) in 1824 . |
| 16 | Cray Research Inc is expected to ship its first massively parallel processor , due in the second half of 1993 , in configurations with up to 1,024 Alpha processing nodes , hears Electronic News : indeed ‘ several thousand ’ processors could be supported at a customer 's request . |
| 17 | Cray says its first massively parallel system has a scalable architecture that combines the Alpha microprocessors through a high-bandwidth , low latency interconnect network that will be an order-of-magnitude faster than those of current massively parallel systems . |
| 18 | Cray Research was showing parts of its first massively parallel computer , the T3D , specifically the basic board , which will not be available until next year . |
| 19 | Because the BT Azure is Britain 's first totally voice-activated cellphone . |
| 20 | The first totally synthetic plastic , it was successful due to the fact that it hardens on heating and can therefore be used for items such as hairdryers and heaters . |
| 21 | So the report before you is the first real annual report on Equal Opportunities Inter County Council , so you 've got all the relevant statistics and in that sense it compliments the previous report that you 've just examined . |
| 22 | The case was the first brought against nine extremists arrested in June 1990 in East Germany [ see p. 37828 ] and the first under 1989 legislation allowing milder sentences for those turning state 's evidence [ see p. 36046 for draft legislation ] . |
| 23 | The museum , set up in the 1780s by his great-great-great-grandmother Izabela , was the first didactically historical museum in Europe ( both the famous ‘ Lady with an Ermine ’ by Leonardo that starred in the National Gallery of Washington 's recent ‘ Circa 1492 ’ exhibition and the remarkable Rembrandt landscape were collected for their historical associations rather than their artistic merit ) . |
| 24 | I remember about six weeks into the first nationally televised programme I ever did , going into Harrods to buy something . |
| 25 | She laughed suddenly , the evening 's first genuinely gay sound . |
| 26 | A more significant change has been the separation of sales of ITV1 and Channel 4 : Channel 4 has been responsible for its own sales from January 1993 , and this has introduced the first genuinely competitive element into national commercial TV . |
| 27 | As an employee of the British Canoe Union and its Director from 1980 to 1987 , Ron was the driving force behind the staging of the first ever triple World Championships to be held in one country in a given year . |
| 28 | In their first ever joint statement , the heads of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Ireland condemned the IRA 's actions as barbaric and inhuman , while in Dublin the Irish Senate heard an impassioned plea for the IRA to lay down its arms from the father of an Enniskillen bombing victim , Gordon Wilson . |
| 29 | No newspaper in history has ever had such a lead story for its first ever first edition as the Glasgow Advertiser and Glasgow Herald , 207 years ago . |
| 30 | Harris returned with a ‘ great store of grafts ’ including the famous Pippins , from which he grew the first ever modern-style orchard at Teynham in Kent . |