Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [art] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was presented , to Darlington Harrier Andy Campbell , when the race was established as an open event in 1904 and given to Duncan McLeod-Wright to keep when the Scottish runner became the first man to win three times , in 1929 . |
| 2 | Last year The Mary Whitehouse Experience became the first TV programme to be reported to the Broadcasting Standards Council after a derogatory sketch about Going For Gold star Henry Kelly was shown . |
| 3 | The motion , tabled when the government invoked a technical measure to pass the first reading of the 1993 budget without a division , failed when the Communist Party ( PCF ) deputies once again refused to back it , saying that they would not vote with the right . |
| 4 | However , where the contribution , if any , is not sufficient to make up the difference , the Legal Aid Board has a first charge on any property , including money , recovered or preserved by the assisted party in the proceedings . |
| 5 | As the conflict between Milosevic and the FRY intensified [ see below ] , the Serbian delegation boycotted the first meeting in Zagreb on Oct. 12 of the committee set up under the Sept. 30 agreement to normalize relations between Croatia and the FRY . |
| 6 | In 1970 , the Library Association produced the first set of specific standards for school libraries that Great Britain had ever had , embodying the library 's new name , and including an analysis of implications for finance , planning , staffing and service which was immediately recognized as being incomplete . |
| 7 | In November 1990 , a man convicted of multiple rape and murder became the first person in Tunisia to be executed since the President came to power in 1987 . |
| 8 | And this morning the musician caught the first Concorde flight back to the US to be with his pregnant wife . |
| 9 | ( 6 ) In August 1983 the third defendant claimed from C.M.C. a commission of £16,000 for himself and £8,000 for Highdene in respect of certain commercial arrangements , not involving the bakery , negotiated between C.M.C. and B.M.T. It is said that this claim led the other directors of C.M.C. to investigate the third defendant 's activities and to dismiss him as a director of C.M.C. ( 7 ) Between May and July 1983 the third defendant caused the first plaintiff to sign in blank some cheques drawn on C.M.C. 's bank account by fraudulently representing that these cheques would be used to pay small and urgent bills of C.M.C. It is said that in fact the third defendant used six of these cheques to pay to himself and certain other parties sums amounting to about £30,000 , allegedly in connection with the financing of the centre . |
| 10 | This chapter uses the first measure to give an outline indication of how big a part credit , overall , plays in consumer spending , and how that has changed over time . |
| 11 | This is illustrated by the RR format of instruction on the IBM 370 range , shown in Figure 3.8 ( a ) , where the result replaces the first operand . |
| 12 | The President appoints a First Vice-President and Prime Minister who must be an elected member of the National Assembly , and a Cabinet which may include non-elected members and is collectively responsible to the legislature . |
| 13 | But Kevin Keegan 's team are still 12 points in front and their good-looking football dominated the first half and the last 20 minutes . |
| 14 | In 1931 the Polytechnic Touring Association organized the first air charter holiday , flying twenty-four passengers from Croydon , south of London , in a four-engined Heracles . |
| 15 | This new concern , among social thinkers of different persuasions , with the opportunities for peaceful change no doubt results in part from a revulsion against the extreme violence characterizing the first half of the twentieth century , and against the authoritarian political regimes which some kinds of violence have brought into existence , as well as from a deep-seated and pervasive apprehension of the ultimate consequences of violence in the age of nuclear weapons . |
| 16 | Following the religious ceremony , Monsignor Olavio Lpez Duque blessed a memorial plaque symbolising the first stone of the central processing facilities ( CPF ) . |
| 17 | At about 2.15 , someone from the Cardiff side threw the first stone , then the bricks started flying : if they could n't get at each other on land , then they could always fight a missile war and there was plenty of ammo flying around : the workmen who put the fence in had not swept up the chunks of broken concrete around the supports . |
| 18 | The leading positions in the four divisions of the Bootle Snooker League after six weeks of the new season see Liverpool Billiards and Snooker Club leading the first division with 24 points from Corals ( 22 ) and Corals B team ( Bootle ) on 18 from four completed matches . |
| 19 | Garston Snooker League are now approaching the half way stage with Woolton Village Club leading the first division with 23 points from eight games closely followed by Mossley Hill Legion ( 22 ) . |
| 20 | ‘ Basically we have adopted the original Decca configuration of microphones used from the 1950s through to the 1970s , but we do n't use a tree microphone in the middle of the orchestra ; we have a three-point microphone in front of the conductor and an omni-pair on either side to cover the first violin and first cello . |
| 21 | The home side dominated a first half climaxed by Quinn 's goal after 33 minutes . |
| 22 | The photograph shows the first lifeboat boat to be lifted in the new hoist , the Watson class Joseph Soar ( Civil Service No. 34 ) , as part of the proving trials by the contractors , Laings . |
| 23 | The deal marks the first venture by Peabody , already the biggest US coal-mining company , into the Pacific Rim . |
| 24 | The deal marks the first time a Test match will be shown live , in full , from the sub-continent . |
| 25 | The construct lacking the first intron hypersensitive sites was prepared by deleting a 1kb BalI-StuI fragment from the first intron of the -300bp construct . |
| 26 | More significantly , the State Department evinced the first sign of active hostility to Cuba by pressurising the British government into rejecting a Cuban order for military helicopters . |
| 27 | During a demonstration to mark the first anniversary of the group 's move to its new location , 300 people , including over 160 police officers , were injured in battles between 1,400 police and at least 7,000 demonstrators . |
| 28 | Analysis of -300bp human NF-L promoter deletion lacking the first intron hypersensitive sites ( HS5A and HS5B ) in adult and embryonic stage trangenic mice . |
| 29 | Hence the current study forms the first part of a contextual recognition system . |
| 30 | Any higher level processing must begin with orthography , hence this study forms the first part of a contextual system . |