Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun sg] be first " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the BAe/Rover deal was first announced , surprise was expressed and questions were raised about the reasons for BAe 's interest in Rover . |
| 2 | Saul Judge was first cousin to Eb and Josh . |
| 3 | If his Subaru Legacy is first back in Chester tomorrow evening , Britain 's brightest rally star will scoop the cash prize being offered by Lombard — to mark their last year of sponsorship — for a home win . |
| 4 | Since 1952 , when the New Hampshire election was first seriously contested , no President had been re-elected after a challenger in his party had scored 35 per cent or more in the state 's primary . |
| 5 | The year I was born was an eventful one — Hitler came to power , the Loch Ness Monster was first sighted , and the film King Kong was made . |
| 6 | The Léon type was first formally distinguished from other Breton cattle in 1859 and it resisted the ubiquitous crossing to the Durham Shorthorn . |
| 7 | Now run by the Thoroughbred Sports Car Club , Croft hill was first used more than 60 years ago , coincidentally around the time Ambrose Sidney Baird was setting up a car dealership in Belfast . |
| 8 | Staff were made redundant , the Secretary 's stipend withdrawn and the Bond interest was first unpaid , then waived . |
| 9 | A fashion expert writes : ‘ The Norfolk jacket was first designed for the Duke of Norfolk . |
| 10 | Guinness stout was first imported from Liverpool in the late 1880s and by the early 1960s had become so popular that Guinness decided to brew in the country . |
| 11 | Banbridge 's Ascot form is first class . |
| 12 | The Group retains a strong concern with the traditional macro-economic issues of fiscal and monetary policy , inflation , the exchange rates for sterling , UK trade policy and aggregate employment which its UK model was first designed to elucidate and which are still in certain respects important subjects of controversy at the analytic level ( although there seems to have been some convergence of short-term and even medium-term conditional predictions ) . |
| 13 | Wednesday winner was first goal of season . |
| 14 | Since a Wimpey presence was first established in Jordan in 1979 , the company has undertaken many prestigious contracts in the Heshemite Kingdom , including building palaces for the King . |
| 15 | Formulated in Germany by Dr. Momme Andresen , and introduced commercially in 1891 , the Para-Amidophenol Hydrochloride developer was first used in highly concentrated form for rapid development of plate films . |
| 16 | The eerie remains of Jervaulx Abbey ( where , incidentally , Wensleydale cheese was first made ) is just 4 miles away . |
| 17 | The attacks on the minority Tutsis by Hutus in the Bugesera region were first reported on March 7 . |
| 18 | CCLGF business is first discussed in a body known as the Official Steering Group ( OSG ) which consists of senior officials of the associations and their advisers on the one side , and of senior government officials on the other : |
| 19 | But how attitudes have changed , since the F-Plan diet was first published in 1982 . |
| 20 | When Ps. lanisticola was first described by Dr Warren Burgess in 1976 , the hobby was in general not impressed , as the new species was said to be similar in appearance to livingstonii with the main difference being in the dentition . |
| 21 | The recently formed English Amateur Billiards Association are first in the field with details of the National Championships . |
| 22 | Freames Mill is first recorded around the middle of the 17th century , when it consisted of a fulling mill and possibly a corn mill . |
| 23 | The York cycle was first revived during the Festival of Britain in 1951 and has since been performed every four years as part of York Festival . |
| 24 | ON THIS DAY : In 1665 , the London Gazette was first published . |
| 25 | In addition , the CS First Boston Group was first in 1992 in worldwide privatisations and in announced merger-and-acquisition transactions . |