Example sentences of "[art] first [noun sg] that [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This seemed like a Falangist revival , for it was the first session that had been held since 1945 and Franco asserted that it was " necessary that the National Council should recover the role which corresponds to it in the political tasks , because it is hierarchically the highest body in the Movement , whose duty it is to ensure the purity of the organization and the continuity of the doctrine " .18 But many of those present , including the Vice-Secretary of FET , Diego Salas Pombo , detected behind the smokescreen of verbiage a lack of genuine commitment to Arrese 's plan for a Falange-dominated future . |
| 2 | he , he , he , he said hard , right , so he can fucking , he said I 'll , I 'll take these and the first man that comes up fucking bashes it and then James er John James gets them all and when he wakes up , just as he 's about to wake up John James thinks right and he fucking lays down on the ground and he wakes up and sees all these clowns all over the place |
| 3 | Probably something that had been generally agreed over the remains of the first person that had dared to call him Rosie . |
| 4 | You 're not the first person that have ever thought of it though , that 's what I 'm trying to say to you |
| 5 | And then what would we do with so that 's the first pizza that 's dealt with and they got a piece like that out of the first one . |
| 6 | But it is no longer these stars of the first magnitude that hold his fancy . |
| 7 | Sometimes it 's as if he 's constantly rejecting the first idea that comes into his mind , and plays the second instead . |
| 8 | There is a sign outside the First Church that reads |
| 9 | ’ Now the first myth that deserves a liberal dollop of embalming fluid is the notion that British Coal management ca n't do the business . |
| 10 | This wistful elegy to the post-Bomb small-town America , The Last Picture Show was probably the first film that pined nostalgically for a generation 's lost innocence , soundtracking Hank Williams ' lonesome holler to great effect . |
| 11 | He did n't see them hurry down the street and take the first turning that came : Jess talking and talking now . |
| 12 | The first question that arose in my mind was : what have I to do with Orwell ? |
| 13 | It was past their supper time already , and the first question that arose was whether Jennifer should sit at table with them . |
| 14 | The first question that has to be asked is whether in fact anything at all needs to be done . |
| 15 | If if it is considered that a new settlement is required to meet the housing provision in Greater York , then the first question that has to be asked is , is the criteria approach alone acceptable . |
| 16 | In designing questions and questionnaire schedules for use in standardised or semi-standardised interviews , the first question that needs to be addressed concerns the objective of the study . |
| 17 | It is quite simple to add a piece of decoration to a stocking stitch garment and the first question that arises is , how much ? |
| 18 | Peter Fowler is the first name that springs to mind as the hardest worker on the Tour , purely because we do n't see Nick Faldo too often ! |
| 19 | It was the first name that came into my head ! |
| 20 | The first decision that has to be taken , then , is which medium — or combination of media — to use . |
| 21 | It 's near the international airport at Shannon is the first thought that springs to mind — but Galway is n't close to Shannon . |
| 22 | The first thought that came to me was that I had n't got my clean bloomers on . |
| 23 | Impressive was the first word that sprang to mind . |
| 24 | The speaker planning in the here-and-now , possibly threatened with his interlocutor wanting to take a turn , typically repeats himself a good deal , using the same syntactic structure , the same lexical items , using the first word that comes to mind rather than hunting for the mot juste , filling in pauses with ‘ fillers ’ . |
| 25 | Seeking a name , John Fawcus opened a book and the first word that caught his eye was ‘ cryptic ’ So , as established institutions are apt to spring from casual beginnings , was born the club that has prospered peripatetically ever since . |
| 26 | Very little blood , surely from the first blow that felled its victim through hood and all . |
| 27 | First I mind about it was the first zeppelin that came over . |
| 28 | After years of anticipation , the Taiwanese-backed NuTek USA Corp in Cupertino , California has finally come down to the wire with its Macintosh-compatible technology : the company claims that it has developed the first machine that emulates the Macintosh without requiring installation of Apple Computer Inc 's proprietary ROMs . |
| 29 | He scored the first goal that put Spurs in the final , inspired them to victory , then went off after 60 minutes … job done . |
| 30 | The first problem that faces the cuckoo is to find a nest belonging to the right species of host . |