Example sentences of "first [noun sg] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First sentence in connection with Nov. 17 demonstration |
| 2 | Two years after his retirement , Nijinsky 's first runner in England , Silky , won her first race . |
| 3 | Iwerks Entertainment Inc , a Burbank , California company that includes Sun Microsystems Inc among its backers , says it plans to open movie park entertainment centres that will combine large-screen formats , simulation and virtual reality technologies to create a futuristic cinematic city : it plans to open the first Cinetropolis in August at the Foxwoods Casino in Ledyard , Connecticut , and has also signed an agreement with the Japanese trading firm Itochu Corp to launch a network of Cinetropolises throughout the Far East and Asia ; Cinetropolis will be a virtual city of cinemas featuring five separate sites : an Iwerks Video 360 circular theatre an Iwerks 870 giant screen theatre , an Iwerks Virtual Reality simulation theatre , and a live performance theatre , all built around a street scene featuring bars , restaurants , retail stores and promotional marketing space . |
| 4 | The first level in Garrett 's model is the message-level representation . |
| 5 | A top source said in Dublin : ‘ It would make sense for the President to time his visit to coincide with the opening of Barrettstown Castle as Paul 's first camp in Europe . |
| 6 | Pringle 's Picture Palace in Sauchiehall Street was the first picture-house in Glasgow when it opened in 1907 , and the Electric Theatre , also in Sauchiehall Street , the first purpose-built movie-house in 1910 . |
| 7 | More evidence that the recession may have bottomed out came with news of the first rise in manufacturing output in 26 months . |
| 8 | For example , the first rise in expectations of the lower orders would be for more and better food before manufactured goods . |
| 9 | As late as 1863 he could still assure his mother that he might turn his attention to almost any subject , but it must have been around this time that a first decision in favour of classics was taken , even though it was not until 1865 at Leipzig that his academic specialization became complete . |
| 10 | Non-finite clauses are those whose predicator element consists of a non-finite verbal group , such as those in which the first verb in sequence is in one of the following forms . |
| 11 | Many fear that this first reduction in hours will mean an increase in the intensity of their work and a fall in their remuneration for it . |
| 12 | In preparing my speech I recalled ( as the reader also may ) the occasion during my first watch in Tartar when the first lieutenant had shown me the various instruments on the bridge , and that when I asked why one had a canvas cover , he had said , ‘ Oh , that 's the Mountbatten station-keeping gear , and we keep it covered because the captain finds it quite useless . ’ |
| 13 | His first fight in America , against Billy McCarthy , earned him $1,250 . |
| 14 | The first university in Peru , for example , was founded by the Dominicans . |
| 15 | And there are similar slightly different arguments , for instance Descartes ' version which takes q = you are dreaming and argues that since you do n't know that you are not dreaming you do n't know any proposition p of which you know that if p were true you would not be dreaming ( see the first Meditation in Descartes , 1955 ) . |
| 16 | This conference provides the first opportunity in West Belfast itself for the unemployed , community groups , local business people , policy makers , managers and administrators of employment and training schemes , funders , careers teachers , trade unionists and others to discuss present and future employment prospects of people living in West Belfast . |
| 17 | The need to have my own quiet corner became a priority during my first Easter in Cotherstone , when I was a bit depressed . |
| 18 | will be displayed and the cursor will move to the first field in error . |
| 19 | The first case in Scotland was also Britain 's first . |
| 20 | This was the first case in Tanzania of its kind : she argued that she was dismissed because of her sex . |
| 21 | After operating in the Czech and Slovak republics for the past 18 months , Leeds accounting software supplier Coda Ltd has not only won its first contract in Hungary , but also decided to open an office in Budapest , which began trading on April 1 . |
| 22 | Despite the RORC 's statement , Michael Peacock has been given dispensation to miss the first trial in Spi Ouest — as his boat will be en route to Britain from the Miami 50ft regatta in March . |
| 23 | The first trial in Canada [ see also pp. 36189-90 ] on the basis of special legislation on war crimes adopted in 1987 began on Dec. 8 , 1989 , and involved a Hungarian , Imre Finta , who emigrated to Canada in 1951 . |
| 24 | My friends had to have their first sit-down in sight of the car . |
| 25 | A dispute with Telecom engineers is holding up the company 's first link in London , and Mercury 's first inter-city line — which should have been operating by now — will not open until next year . |
| 26 | At first instance in Wormell v RHM Agriculture ( East ) Ltd [ 1986 ] 1 WLR 336 , it was held that accompanying written instructions were " goods supplied under the contract " . |
| 27 | In March 1984 Mansur Rajih was tried before the Court of First Instance in Ta'iz for the murder of a man from his village . |
| 28 | An exclusion of liability for negligence in a consumer contract was held unreasonable at first instance in Woodman v Photo Trade Processing Ltd ( 1981 ) , unreported where a clause in a contract for the processing of photographs provided that in the event of loss the processor was only to be liable for the value of the unprocessed material . |
| 29 | In this respect , a document purporting to be a sale of hire purchase agreements was construed by Eve J at first instance in Re George Inglefield [ 1933 ] Ch 1 , as a charge on book debts whereas , in the Court of Appeal ( at p27 ) , it was held to be a sale : " [ There is ] no reason whatever for attempting to drag the transaction within the operation of the section [ s 395 of the Companies Act 1985 ] by calling it something which in truth it is not . " |
| 30 | The court at first instance in Pappa v Rose ( 1871 ) LR 7 CP 32 thought it significant that " umpirage " had not been reached because in its view there could be no real dispute before that stage . |