Example sentences of "[noun] in the first [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far as I am aware , no writer on Ultra has noted the comparison between the Coventry affair and an episode in the First World War when secret intelligence was apparently neglected in order to protect the source . |
| 2 | From her pretty cream bedroom in the first floor nursery , Diana enjoyed a pleasant prospect of grazing cattle , a patchwork of open fields and parkland interspersed with copses of pine , silver birch and yew . |
| 3 | The German press disappeared after Germany 's defeat in the First World War , while the missionary press , though of some historical interest , did not give rise to publications of any major importance . |
| 4 | Even Hitler , whose life and ideology glorified an untrammelled lust for power , surprises by his docility under discipline as a corporal in the first World War , and the little reported about his sexual tastes suggests that they were masochistic . |
| 5 | Philip 's father had served in the Irish Guards in the First World War , and was always referred to by his rank . |
| 6 | And he was a wounded pensioner er and he , he applied for a grant which you , which er a wounded soldier in the First World War could get if you had a pension he could get a grant of that pension to learn a trade . |
| 7 | Having been a soldier in the First World War , he really knows what he is writing about and is a great contrast to some of the pretentious poets who preach about war while they have never seen any violence in their entire lives . |
| 8 | But the use of aircraft in the First World War showed the potential of aerial reconnaissance for discovering and interpreting archaeological sites , and this technique was pioneered by OGS Crawford ( 1886–1957 ) . |
| 9 | A Thirties scene with modern streamlined cars passing the massive war memorial constructed with the profits from shell-making by the Tramways Department in the First World War . |
| 10 | ARCHIE BINDING , who has died aged 105 , was perhaps the last survivor of those Royal Naval Air Service and Royal Flying Corps airmen who crewed airships in the First World War . |
| 11 | The first point to note , therefore , is that many of the disruptions in the first evacuation scheme , which produced so much distress in the children ( resulting , in particular , in bed-wetting ) were primarily the result of poor civil defence planning . |
| 12 | Their successors will be in action at Desertmartin on Friday and Saturday in the first youth Division British Championship event to be held here . |
| 13 | It was destroyed in 1915 during action in the First World War , then was rebuilt after 1918 to the original design . |
| 14 | Whether or not his opinions actually percolated down to subordinate commanders many of them seemed to share his beliefs about keeping the French out , or at least , in an interesting reversal of roles in the First World War , treating France as an associated rather than an allied power . |
| 15 | Both the Britons ' and the IFL literature contained lurid tales of alleged Jewish responsibility for crime , the white slave traffic , for casualties in the First World War , for corrupting public life and for financial malpractices and banking irregularity . |
| 16 | Kumar 's company , BRS Kumar Brothers , has gone into receivership and its 84% stake in the first division club is part of the assets put up for sale by the receivers . |
| 17 | He 's currently developing a play about Lawrence 's experiences in the First World War and he 's been asked to look at Lawrence 's novel Kangaroo , by the BBC . |
| 18 | turns , there , gets the header , Notts go in front , it was brilliantly made by and had the easiest of jobs and what a comeback it is , because Notts trailed by two in twenty minutes and now they lead three two against the side second in the first division table , who 've been run ragged in the second half , by a storming Notts comeback , brilliant , header . |
| 19 | The clock was installed in 1920 with money raised by the parishioners with the intention of creating a long-lasting memorial to those who served and gave their lives in the First World War . |
| 20 | In effect , the transplant hospital , which started out as a centre for wounded Australian troops in the First World War and was then used as a TB sanatorium , exists in its own world , untainted by the big bad world outside . |
| 21 | The work mostly took place in the first year base , which was described as : " a large hall and four small rooms each capable of taking a group of twenty . |
| 22 | SIR — Details of the mysterious respiratory illness mentioned by Nelson ( June 12 , p 1526 ) among Navajo Indians are at present sparse , but the symptoms are reminiscent of those described early in the course of an ‘ acute nephritis ’ which occurred with trench warfare in the First World War . |
| 23 | Airships are not all that easily shot down , a disconcerting fact to pilots in the First World War who expected tracer to ignite hydrogen gas at once . |
| 24 | The National Labour Prime Minister , Ramsay MacDonald , had campaigned against conscription in the First World War . |
| 25 | Most days in the first week start with a chat about the next harbour , anchoring there , what 's available , and the likely weather . |
| 26 | The teacher in the first school classroom particularly has got to look out , they 've got to be aware , does the child give any overt sign of recognition ? |
| 27 | A U-boat captain of distinction in the First World War , he had headed the Abwehr since 1935 and despite being a loyal German had always been unhappy with National Socialism . |
| 28 | Dreams of Arab nationalism raised by the Arab revolt against the Ottomans in the First World War , and then turned instead into the reality of separate states , clearly supervised by the two major European victors . |
| 29 | Diagnosis of coeliac disease was based on subtotal villous atrophy in the first biopsy specimen and subsequent improvement of morphology in a repeat jejunal biopsy specimen taken after the gluten free diet . |
| 30 | This has fallen into disuse , having been used as a military hospital and to sleep troops in transit in the First World War , a Sunday school , a library , and up until five years ago a store for the church gardening equipment . |