Example sentences of "first [adv] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , according to The Times ( 7 February 1984 ) , ‘ The first most Cabinet ministers knew was when Sir Geoffrey Howe announced the decision in the Commons on January 25 . ’ |
| 2 | Good evening , first tonight demolition work on a Cotswold hotel has been halted after fighting broke out between building workers and demonstrators . |
| 3 | The Discovery is the first ever gas cooker to have a hotplate with ‘ Gas Powered Discs ’ a revolutionary new concept developed by Moffat that actually places a Disc above the flame to give you the controllability you expect from gas plus an unheard of level of cleanability . |
| 4 | Paraskevi Patoulidou came through to grab a first ever athletics medal for a Greek girl . |
| 5 | STUDENTS who gained National Awards will be honoured when Darlington College of Technology holds its first ever Graduation Ceremony . |
| 6 | Tony Cozier reports from Barbados on the first ever Test match between West Indies and South Africa . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | and you can see the highlights of the Blenheim Horse Trials on Channel Four on Saturday September the twenty sixth … the next big sunday event for horse fans around here will be in November when Cheltenham races stage the first ever sunday jump meeting … they 've been unveiling their plans today … here 's Mark Kiff |
| 9 | Julie Peeke , 33 , of Minors Crescent , Darlington , looped the loop on her first ever aeroplane flight . |
| 10 | P&O Exhibition Services held their first ever golf day at Pine Ridge Golf Club in Surrey last month , with the aim of raising money for the charity , Motability . |
| 11 | Scotland also produced the first ever court case in which a sign language interpreter was used , as well as a remarkable heroine in Charlotte Bain . |
| 12 | The Isle of Man 's Chancellor of the Exchequer , Mr David Cannan , was dismissed yesterday in the Manx government 's first ever Cabinet reshuffle . |
| 13 | On Sunday 18 April , Dave was preparing himself for his first ever parachute jump to raise money for charity [ and to overcome his own fear of heights and aeroplanes ] when he heard that the jump had been cancelled due to bad weather . |
| 14 | In 1889 , the first ever football competition was organised in Scotland by the newly-formed Scottish Deaf Football Association , and the final was played between Edinburgh and Glasgow in front of about 2000 spectators at Falkirk . |
| 15 | In the build up to her first ever world tour , the now seasoned campaigner decided it was time to kill the cutesy girl-next-door and reflect the reality of what had happened to her over the previous two years . |
| 16 | There had been in 1983 and 1984 , two great festivals of athletics : the first ever World Championships in Helsinki and the Olympic Games in Los Angeles , respectively . |
| 17 | The father and daughter team are working flat out , to ensure it 's in good trim for the city 's first ever World Cup encounter . |
| 18 | The ladies ' K4 was significant not so much for the Germans and Hungarians in the first two places but for the Chinese who took the bronze , their first ever World medal . |
| 19 | By 1974 — year of the first ever World Population Conference in Bucharest — there were roughly three population camps . |
| 20 | Joey managed to fill third place behind Scots rider Jim Moodie , who joined Carl Fogarty in scoring his first ever North-West win . |
| 21 | Young Richard Kirk was n't content with a fine 7 lb 2 oz bream when he ventured out with his dad on his first ever fishing trip — he went on to bank ten others to 6 lb ! |
| 22 | WILKINSON INSPIRES FIRST EVER COUNTY TITLE FOR HAMPSHIRE |
| 23 | Hampshire captured its first ever county title when its men 's team triumphed at the recent LTA Winter Indoor County Closed Championships at Telford . |
| 24 | But Mark 's first ever oil painting — this copy of David 's Napoleon — was enough to convince professors at Oxford that Mark has real talent . |
| 25 | But from 1 January 1993 the three will join the UK 's fully fledged car company bosses ; the Marcos Mantara , Caterham K-series and Westfield ZEi will be the first ever kit cars to be sold fully built up , thanks to a helpful new bit of bureaucracy : Low Volume Type Approval . |
| 26 | ‘ ( That 's The Way ) I Like It ’ — KC And The Sunshine Band ( ‘ uh-huh , uh-huh ’ — the first ever disco record — official ! ) |
| 27 | THE young people of St Thomas More deanery are all out to celebrate their first ever youth day on Sunday , November 22 , The Feast of Christ the King and National Youth Sunday . |
| 28 | We decided to do it as it was the first ever marathon championships for women and because of the sentimental and historical feelings attached to the course . |
| 29 | John was the clinic 's first ever AIDS patient . |
| 30 | met with Eire 's first ever woman President , Mary Robinson , in Dublin . |