Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [coord] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Demand for the services offered by these units has varied considerably with a consequence that the length of time between first contact with the GP and first appointment has fluctuated between two weeks and three months . |
| 2 | The kitchen and first floor roof were virtually destoyed . |
| 3 | The stocky man who was President of the United States was informed of the news from Haiti in the Lincoln Suite of the White House , which comprised the living quarters for the President and First Lady . |
| 4 | How anyone can ridicule and trivialise such an attempt to make life more pleasant in Darlington is totally beyond me , particularly when the person primarily responsible is the Mayor and first citizen of the town . |
| 5 | In the Test team , the three key fielding positions are those of the wicketkeeper and first the second slips . |
| 6 | If , therefore , the catchword and first word do not agree , there is likely to be something wrong . |
| 7 | The tombs of the first three governors of Madeira , including that of the discoverer and first governor João Gonçalves Zarco , still exist under the high altar . |
| 8 | Looking to our right we recognised the Cottages with the road in front of them close to the ditch ; also our Professor 's stable , coach-house and dog kennels , with the back entrance from the road to his garden … we were soon in King 's Road [ Pancras Way ] which we found to be well studded with trees on each side … to our left the Country residence of Counsellor Agar [ builder of Agar 's Town ] … we turned to the right and first took notice of the front of our Professor 's house with its large garden protected from the pathway and road by a brick wall . |
| 9 | A particularly good time to be out-of-doors in natural lighting in the first two to three days after the flight is that corresponding to the evening and first part of the night on ‘ old time ’ , 9 o'clock to 3 o'clock ; this should help to delay your body clock . |
| 10 | These were installed in the prototype and first seven production aircraft ( K5257-K5263 ) , a batch ordered by the Air Ministry in March 1935 . |
| 11 | This dramatic turnaround was subsequently converted into victory as Adebisi held his service game to take the set , the match and first ever championship title . |
| 12 | Yeah and Annika Rice gets on the phone and first of all she thought oh , oh , I do n't think there 's gon na be an answer , I , I do n't think there 's gon na be anyone in , why are n't they watching us , why are n't they watching |
| 13 | I tried at regular intervals throughout the night and first thing this morning . |
| 14 | If there are four candidates in a constituency — Conservative , Labour , Liberal Democrat and Scottish Nationalist Party — and if thanks to the AV the Labour candidate is elected , first votes given to him will get 100% political representation in the constituency and first votes given to the other three candidates will get none at all : a strange sort of PARR , just like the sort our present system provides ! |
| 15 | Single-storey units occupy the ground and first floors ( Fig 44 and Plate 22 ) . |
| 16 | Fruit and vegetables are on the ground and first floors , with flush on the floor below . |
| 17 | After the war , the Church Commissioners had finally decided that the existing huge Victorian house was unmanageable and uneconomic , and had sold the site to a developer on the understanding that a maisonette on the ground and first floor should be made over , in perpetuity , to house the parish priest . |
| 18 | The building is now divided into two areas , with the ground and first floors forming a gallery space and the upper three floors housing the offices , boardroom and library . |
| 19 | Bay windows on the ground and first floors , postage-stamp sized front gardens behind railings , nothing remotely green in-sight . |
| 20 | On the ground and first floors , products were displayed in a more domesticated , less austere atmosphere than in London with a deliberate attempt to make customers feel that they were shopping in a private house from an earlier century . |
| 21 | The ground and first floors of the former Super Snooker premises in Redcar Road , South Bank , were badly smoke-damaged in yesterday afternoon 's fire . |
| 22 | He managed to escape ( probably through the garderobe flue which is accessible on the attic and first floors ) , and rode off . |
| 23 | For all the concern and first name friendship the officers are still jailers with keys . |
| 24 | He fought in both the Boer and First World Wars . |
| 25 | The first step in Parliamentary procedure is the introduction and first reading of the bill . |
| 26 | When applying a varnish , the brush should be dipped into it for about one-third of the length of the bristles and then , holding the brush in a similar way to a pencil , with the fingers holding the metal ferrule and the handle resting between the thumb and first finger , spread the varnish quickly and evenly over a small area . |
| 27 | Holding the tablet with the thumb and first finger of your right hand , drop this as far back as possible in the dog s mouth , without releasing your grip on the jaws . |
| 28 | As the clubhouse and first link will be within a mile of the radio station and a quarter of a mile from the borough boundary , the project ought to do good to Henley and , incidentally , raise the value of the land surrounding the course . |