Example sentences of "[art] first [noun] in [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rupert Murdoch told the annual meeting in Adelaide : ‘ This may well be the first year in some years when our earnings do not show their customary increase . ’ |
| 2 | The first person in each team places it on their nose and then passes it to other members of the team without using their hands . |
| 3 | The first person in each team is given a balloon and has to blow it down the room over tape placed at the other end without touching it . |
| 4 | Now and that 's for my benefit alone okay , what that means is that I 'll see each and every one of you in a , a role play so the first person in each role play will be Robert , Barry and Gareth , followed by Gill , , followed by Bill , Roger and Vincent and Robert again you do not deviate from that order . |
| 5 | To which the best answer is : a lot better than the first person in any queue organised by Mr Kaufman . |
| 6 | William Murdock was the first person in this country to build a moving steam engine . |
| 7 | Patient 301 was the first person in this family to be referred for genetic counselling . |
| 8 | When I met Francis on the first occasion in that throne room , life had not turned sour for him . |
| 9 | Which ground staged the first Test in this country ? ( 6 ) 3 . |
| 10 | This shows you that the colour you have now selected and are going to work on , is the first colour in this palette . |
| 11 | The first development in this field was the invention of Coberine by Unilever , working with a leading English chocolate company , which was patented in 1961 . |
| 12 | The first stakes in this programme are CD ( Companion Dog ) ; the second stakes are UD ( Utility Dog ) ; the third , WD ( Working Dog ) ; the fourth TD ( Tracking Dog ) and the fifth PD ( Police Dog ) . |
| 13 | The first moves in this direction began soon after independence , with the ‘ Education with Production ’ programme . |
| 14 | The first moves in this respect began during Allan Hayhurst 's stewardship and were primarily the responsibility of Alan Wilson , who for over thirty years served the BDA with devotion and exceptional skills until illness caused his retirement and death in 1985 . |
| 15 | Indeed , the first moves in this direction occurred in 1986 of course , when as Noble Lords will recall the Metropolitan counties or at least their county councils were abolished and police authorities were created for the same areas as freestanding corporate bodies . |
| 16 | St. Saviour 's was the first church in this country to be specially dedicated to use by deaf people and was the crowning achievement of the Rev. Samuel Smith , the first clergyman ordained to minister entirely to the deaf . |
| 17 | then erm the first payment in some occasions is a cheque direct to you from the TEC . |
| 18 | What I 'm planning to do is to put them back in the order , colleagues could you settle down please , I 'm planning to put them back on the agenda in the order that they fell off , and er , hopefully , the first opportunity in that connection may be Wednesday afternoon , but I need to have a discussion with colleagues about that , but I 'll certainly let you know at the first available opportunity . |
| 19 | The first election in that sense was held on May 30 , 1929 ( when Labour won 287 seats , Conservatives 261 , Liberals 59 , others 8 ) . |
| 20 | Classically , the first o in both words was short , but both are sometimes lengthened in English . |
| 21 | The first question in each of the opening interviews was why the practice had decided to apply for fundholding status . |
| 22 | ART SHELL 'S appointment as the new head coach of the Los Angeles Raiders makes him the the first black in that position in modern NFL history , but the club 's owner , Al Davis , immediately played down the importance of the move . |
| 23 | The first sentence in each pair contains a dead metaphor ; in the second sentence , the metaphor is revitalised by the substitution of a near-synonym or paraphrase . |
| 24 | The first sentence in each of the above extracts occurs at the end of the paragraph immediately before the one we are examining . |
| 25 | The first sentence in that passage is , of course , a gross exaggeration . |
| 26 | The first sentence in this paragraph , for example , indicates that the discussion is to be about the change from one paragraph to another . |
| 27 | It is a history of morale boosting , of public money being made available from various sources from 1918 onwards : to enrich the life in remote villages in danger of being deserted by the exodus after the First World War ; to occupy the unemployed in the 1930s on Tyneside ; to counter the dreary effect of the ‘ blackout ’ during the Second World War ( this was the first instance in this country of government subsidy ) ; to bring a sense of wellbeing to the community during the difficult years following the war ; and in particular , to occupy bored young people . |
| 28 | The first word in any good dictionary , she explained . |
| 29 | This is the first exercise in this book and in certain ways the most important . |
| 30 | Volume VII , 2 , of the series corpus vitrearum medii aevi Deutschland , Die mittelalterlichen Glasmalereien in Luneburg und den Heideklostern by Rudiger Becksmann and Ulf-Dietrich Korn is the first issue in this scholarly series to cover medieval stained glass in Northern Germany ( DM395 ) . |