Example sentences of "first [noun sg] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second attribute is that each paragraph should have as a first sentence a brief statement or at least an indication of what the paragraph is to consider . |
| 2 | As in the first trial a Special Court presided over by Chief Justice Sir Arku Korsah heard their case . |
| 3 | So in the first instance a sharp rise in oil prices necessitates an increased demand for dollars , but whether this is maintained depends very much on the decisions of OPEC countries . |
| 4 | Half way round the first lap a short sharp guest of wind took them by surprise and they found themselves having an early bath . |
| 5 | But since gaps on the bench happen rarely , and since this will be the first chance a Democratic president has had to choose a justice since Lyndon Johnson was in the White House , the usual debate about likely replacements is under way . |
| 6 | On the first occasion a violent thunderstorm blew up on that beautiful summer day , wrecking any attempt at further recording and causing damage to the equipment . |
| 7 | A member of the Club Animacion Team had volunteered me for the lilo race across the pool — the first prize a free drink — who could resist ! |
| 8 | In the first week a German dairy was pillaged , two Germans were battered and an Austrian student was surrounded by a hostile mob , whilst traffic came almost to a standstill . |
| 9 | By the end of the first week an intensifying anticyclone over Ireland introduced an even warmer , humid airstream over Scotland . |
| 10 | However , on all the ballot papers giving Paisley first preference a second preference was in fact shown , and the question is how the transfer of his surplus of 5,626 should be effected . |
| 11 | She was at first sight a cheerful figure , a plump woman of 65 who wore a brightly patterned dress and whose curly hair showed around the front of her white scarf . |
| 12 | During the first consultation a great deal of time was taken up listening to Maxine 's story and reassuring her that her problem was not incapable of being solved , although at that stage I was not quite certain how long this would take . |
| 13 | Osmone ( to give it its official name ) soothes because it is the first thing a newborn baby smells , he says . |
| 14 | Spiky annuals and biennials abound , chief among which in my eyes is Our Lady 's thistle Silybum marianum , a biennial whose leafy green rosette bears in its first year a striking network of milky-white veins . |
| 15 | In 1975 , women with husbands in social class V gave birth for the first time a mere nine months after marriage , as at most times in the past . |
| 16 | Although the accommodation remained spartan with bunk beds arranged in segregated dormitories , nevertheless , at a cost fixed at 1/ per night plus a shilling for breakfast , extended holidays in the countryside became for the first time a practical possibility for thousands previously denied them . |
| 17 | It was the first time a traditional bank had diversified into the instalment finance business . |
| 18 | Under this legislation , for the first time a married woman who paid full contributions became entitled to unemployment and sickness benefits at the same rate as her single sister . |
| 19 | The new fact in the world 's history is that for the first time a great power with a formidable Navy , a population from which vast armies might be raised , and an economic and financial strength which might alone be decisive in any future conflict , is prepared to stake its own peace , not merely to guarantee its own interests , nor to further the partisan aims of its allies , but to make an end in the world of the possibility of prosperous aggression … . beyond the American continent her only interests are the open door to trade , freedom of the seas , and the maintenance of peace . |
| 20 | Christine looked across and for the first time a defensive flabbiness crawled across her face . |
| 21 | For the first time a non-aligned state provided not only support for Soviet warships on a commercial basis but did so without in the process tarnishing its non-aligned credentials . |
| 22 | While this as such simply acknowledges the situation as it is and is followed by a far longer passage relating to the benefits of celibacy for the Western rite , it remains a highly important text because it is the first time a Roman Council or any major Roman document has explicitly accepted and recommended the uniting of priesthood and marriage in a single life . |
| 23 | It marked the dedication of a new city church … but it was also the first time a Roman Catholic cardinal had preached before the Monarch since the time of Henry The Eighth . |
| 24 | For the first time a live televised debate between the two ‘ finalists ’ was held . |
| 25 | It is true , however , that taken as a whole , the 1947 Act created for the first time a comprehensive framework for planning and thereby laid the groundwork for a permanent and highly significant change in the public attitude to private property and its use and development . |
| 26 | For the first time a comprehensive colour guide draws together all eight Shetland monuments in Historic Scotland 's care . |
| 27 | Using the 100-inch telescope on Mount Wilson , in 1923 Hubble identified for the first time a cepheid variable star in a spiral ‘ nebula ’ ( M 31 in Andromeda ) , and proceeded in the next few years to make similar discoveries in several other such ‘ nebulae ’ . |
| 28 | The second norwegian half was bloody excellent from Norway and for the first time a norwegian team wins a away in eastern Europe . |
| 29 | On the one hand this expansion offered for the first time a substantial number of teaching posts which together formed a fully-integrated career structure , and on the other it considerably lessened the security of both the " historical " and " critical " paradigms for which Bateson had been at such pains to seek some form of mutual accommodation . |
| 30 | If he wins , it will be the first time a black person has been elected to a US state governorship . |