Example sentences of "the first [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first Challenger trimaran ( three hulls ) was produced in 1978 and there are now more than 120 in use throughout the UK . |
| 2 | The men are now looking forward to Saturday when the first Challenger tanks arrive ; it 's these that 'll play a key role in any ground battles should war become unavoidable . |
| 3 | The first Tay Bridge was completed in 1878 . |
| 4 | The first Tay Bridge showed up the lack of expertise and foresight required for such a structure , no wind tunnels or sophisticated testing were available to the engineers in the late 1870s . |
| 5 | Air travel grew rapidly : the first Pan Am passenger flight was on 18 January 1928 , although the first commercial passenger flights had been in German Zeppelins before the First World War , and French and British airlines had begun by the early 1920s . |
| 6 | At or before the first directions appointment or hearing , whichever occurs first , the applicant must file at court a statement on Form CHA 72 confirming that a copy of the application has been served on each respondent ( FPCR , r4(7) ; FPR , r4.4(7) ) . |
| 7 | It will inform the recipient of the date , time and place of the first directions appointment or hearing , as appropriate . |
| 8 | In other cases early appointment is clearly desirable so that the guardian can attend the first directions appointment . |
| 9 | The application must be served on all respondents at least seven days before the first directions appointment or hearing . |
| 10 | The application must be served on all respondents at least three days before the first directions appointment or hearing . |
| 11 | The application must be served on all respondents at least seven days before the first directions appointment or hearing . |
| 12 | The application must be served on all respondents at least seven days before the first directions appointment or hearing . |
| 13 | We announced only last week the first farmer co-operative with five farms seeking to develop a market . |
| 14 | The F-Plan is the first slimming diet which enables you to follow this formula . |
| 15 | During the first session Susie barely spoke at all . |
| 16 | Also at the first session MPRP member Jambyn Gombojav was elected as Hural Chair . |
| 17 | In that year the first Aberdeen Angus steer won the Silver Cup at Smithfield and the breed 's fame spread rapidly , first into France and during the 1870s to North America , and also Australia and New Zealand . |
| 18 | But if this colt was beaten today , he would certainly not be the first winter favourite for a Classic to flop first time out as a three-year-old . |
| 19 | Chris Forrest on the first winter ascent of Mariella , Coire an t-Sneachda : one of this season 's new routes ( photo Graeme Ettle ) . |
| 20 | Sir Henry Lunn ( seated , centre front row ) organized the first winter sports package tour to Chamonix in 1898/9 . |
| 21 | The stately whooper swans fly in from Iceland in late September or October , the timing probably depending on how soon the first winter frosts set in up north . |
| 22 | Intake of the first winter barleys was expected to be ‘ some time this week ’ , at the Woodchurch Farmers Supplies co-op not far from Mr Maylam . |
| 23 | . In nineteen forty one on June the first clothes rationing began , and for that year twenty coupons were issued . |
| 24 | And Henshaw was to become the first money man of the underground . |
| 25 | Church leaders in Gloucester have named the date for the ordination of the first women priests in the diocese . |
| 26 | In their eighties , they were still living in Norham Gardens , the North Oxford avenue that leads to Lady Margaret Hall , the women 's college where they had studied and taught ; they had been among the first women students to be allowed officially to take a degree , though woman sat the examinations in order to make the point after the college 's foundation in 1878 . |
| 27 | The girl , who was reading English at Puddephat 's college — one of the first women students there , in fact — had been found dead in her room just before the end of the summer term . |
| 28 | The Lancet 's sustained opposition to the first women doctors , the ‘ advance guard of the Amazonian army ’ as it dubbed them , was argued on the grounds that young ladies would be rendered indelicate , and by implication immoral , by attending lectures and dissections on human anatomy and pathology . |
| 29 | The first women doctors and lawyers , the women artists and writers , the politicians and trades unionists , the women who came out as lesbians ; and before them the witches and the suffragettes : the paths we walk so freely are paths they laid down for us . |
| 30 | Apart from the few wives and daughters of master printers who had picked up something of the trade in the family firm , the first women compositors in Britain to receive anything like a " systematic training " were apparently taken on by the firm of McCorquodale of Newton-le-Willows in about 1848.12 It was a little-known experiment that did not last . |