Example sentences of "the [num ord] [noun] ever [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only the second occasion ever in which bankers had been summoned and reflected both the high degree of public outrage and government embarrassment over the spate of recent financial scandals . |
| 2 | Do n't you see , as far as I knew , I was the first man ever to be displaced in time , though no doubt the timeslips were now making a regular thing of it . |
| 3 | Well I mean it 's the first position ever of such sort . |
| 4 | Craobh nan Ubhal ( The Apple Tree ) is the first play ever to be written and performed in Gaelic , Doric and English . |
| 5 | The first survey ever of such tests has found that another 59 companies say they may start testing . |
| 6 | The only thing these artists have in common is their gallery of origin the Bachelier-Cardonsky of Kent , Connecticut , USA which has sent their work for the first time ever to Paris where it can be seen at Gianna Sistu for a month . |
| 7 | Fiat 's cultural showplace , the Palazzo Grassi , collaborates for the first time ever with a Venetian museum and produces an exhibition that is beautiful but misses the mark |
| 8 | But she had never realized quite how much knowledge she had assimilated until today , until she had been forced into conversation for the first time ever with a total stranger . |
| 9 | And here , for the first time ever on a decorative plate by Coalport , a pair of lively Robins pay tribute to the works of one of the most respected bird illustrators of all time . |
| 10 | Giraffe , zebra and , for the first time ever on an industrial site , white rhinoceros have been introduced . |
| 11 | They met in Northampton for the first time ever before Saturday 's offical world heavyweight title eliminator . |
| 12 | In his comprehensive Apples Of England , Dr Taylor states that ‘ In England this variety only reaches full maturity in years of hot summers , ’ and goes on to say that ‘ Indeed , November- December-picked Sturmers are the best , ’ and , with a basket-full of fine specimens picked for the first time ever in the latter month , I agree . |
| 13 | For the first time ever in Britain , CS gas was fired at rioters by the police . |
| 14 | It must be the first time ever in the Five Nations Championship that two referees have dropped out of the opening games , with England 's Ed Morrison missing the Ireland v Wales game through a rib injury , and Yours Truly having to watch the England v Ireland game on television through a ‘ flu virus . |
| 15 | His two goals helped Vale beat local rivals Stoke for the first time since 1956 and for the first time ever in the FA Cup . |
| 16 | For the first time ever in Germany , Chillida , who normally works with museums in Spain , will be exhibiting pieces from his private collection . |
| 17 | And then , for the first time ever in my life , I what I normally do is I have sort of maybe some questions that I definitely pre-plan and if I 'm lucky one or two of them , and this paper all three of my prepared questions actually came up exactly as I 'd worded them , or near enough . |
| 18 | After taking his trousers and underpants off-for the first time ever in front of someone who was n't a member of his family — he was told he had no transmittable diseases — whatever they were , thought Charlie . |
| 19 | Paris and Frankfurt are growing particularly fast ( capitalisation increases of 83 per cent and 64 per cent respectively during 1989 ) , with turnover of domestic equities on German Exchanges being larger than the ISE 's for the first time ever in 1989 . |
| 20 | After two years of legal battles , on 2 May , the first exhibition ever of works from the Barnes Foundation of Merion , Pennsylvania , opens at the National Gallery of Art . |
| 21 | Sir Ranulph and his wife Ginny — the first woman ever to be awarded the Polar Medal — try to spend as much time as possible at their home on Exmoor , but even between expeditions , there is a lot of travelling to do . |
| 22 | I was the first woman ever into one of the famous gay bars . |
| 23 | But the new Queen 's champion admitted that the first meeting ever between the two players dominated by heavy serves and containing few spectacular winners was a poor spectacle for a 6,000 crowd which included Princess Diana . |
| 24 | The first opera ever to be staged in England is to be recreated to celebrate its 300th anniversary . |