Example sentences of "[art] first [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first serial section from each block was stained by haematoxylin and eosin . |
| 2 | But although there was relief at this success , it is significant that Cambridge have failed to score during the first 45 minutes of their last eight games . |
| 3 | In fact the England ‘ B ’ side played the first 45 minutes of that match with the command and control that seemed sure to produce a notable victory . |
| 4 | The question is whether England reached their peak for the first 45 minutes of Hamilton or whether they have the resources of skill and spirit to play even better seven days later at Pukekohe . |
| 5 | Vale dominated the first 45 minutes against a Stockport side they dismissed from the second division play-off last Wednesday . |
| 6 | Blix , in Libya for the opening of the first Arab conference on the peaceful uses of atomic energy , visited Libya 's one declared nuclear reactor , the small Soviet-built Tajura research reactor outside Tripoli , and found that it had been shut down since June 1991 because spare parts were no longer available and most of the Soviet scientists who had worked there had gone home . |
| 7 | Birkwood Lock , the first mechanized lock with control tower and traffic light gantry . |
| 8 | In the first terrible hours of battle , twenty thousand died as they advanced into the German 's heavy artillery and machine guns . |
| 9 | The first criminal prosecution against nine Indian officials of the United States company Union Carbide , implicated in the Bhopal gas disaster of December 1984 [ see pp. 33647-48 ] , opened in Bhopal on July 17 . |
| 10 | Until April 1988 , as a widow under 60 you are entitled to the widow 's allowance for the first 26 weeks after your husband 's death provided he paid enough contributions . |
| 11 | Although the overall extent of civilian casualties remained unclear , Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Hammadi suggested during his visit to Tehran in mid-February [ see above ] that more than 20,000 of his compatriots had been killed and 60,000 wounded in the first 26 days of the war . |
| 12 | It will be the first grand event after the Christmas and New Year celebrations , and I am determined to make it a success . |
| 13 | The artist 's impression of Ivan 's majestic features and lavish robes captures the awe inspired by the first Grand Prince to be crowned ‘ Tsar ’ . |
| 14 | It was not until 1903 that the famous rope of Ravanel , Giraud and Comte completed the first grand traverse of the Drus in the opposite direction . |
| 15 | THE FIRST GRAND HOTEL OF LONDON . |
| 16 | The bus stopped to pick up a passenger off one of the first terraced streets of the town . |
| 17 | Although SVR4 MP was the first technical success for the UI technology committees , Price says SVR4.1 ES should be regarded as UI 's technological linchpin for the future . |
| 18 | Tony was the first Technical Adviser for the lager operation and ran the training programme for all the breweries that handled the brand in the 1960s at the beginning of the later boom . |
| 19 | The impact of the oil crisis and its associated inflation led to the first actual decline in income for OECD countries for over a quarter of a century . |
| 20 | As far as I know , the first actual record of an objective mechanical test , which had results of practical consequence , occurs in Pepys ' diary for 4 June 1662 . |
| 21 | It is like running the first 100 metres like Carl Lewis , getting into gear but pushing really hard for the whole race as you go along . |
| 22 | Certainly articles in the press and in professional journals did not , for the first 100 aspirants for GMS , provide a clear picture of the position of the head , let alone the position of other teachers . |
| 23 | Despite Clinton 's hopes for action within the first 100 days of his administration , it is more realistic to expect legislative hearings during March and April and the earliest Congressional action on any legislation in May or early June . |
| 24 | The action belonged exclusively to the second half with two goals packed into the first 100 seconds of the period . |
| 25 | It would be sad if ill-health were to deprive him of the chance to become the first democratically-elected president of South Africa . |
| 26 | Previously , the start was determined by a blind draw within the first seeding group of 15 . |
| 27 | THE PROSPECT of tax increases in next month 's Budget appeared to recede yesterday as the Chancellor , Norman Lamont , received the first good news in a year on Britain 's public spending . |
| 28 | Bivouac : the first good band from Derby |
| 29 | OK , THEN , the first good band from Derby . |
| 30 | The agreement , similar to one which President Alberto Keinya Fujimori had rejected in September 1990 [ see p.37708 ] , provided for US$34,900,000 in military equipment and training for the army and police force — the first such funding since the USA funded anti-guerrilla operations in 1965 — and $60,000,000 in economic aid ( expected to be increased in 1992 to $100,000,000 ) to assist coca growers to switch to other crops . |