Example sentences of "first [noun sg] [noun] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well it was a large double-fronted house and it was sand-bagged all round and there were tables and to er , administer , you know , wardens in the unevent of air raids which they used to do and they used to patrol the streets looking for lights to see if pe my nan actually got fined once cos she , she event inadvertently went into a room and put the light on and forgot she 'd left the curtains open and an air raid warden happened to be around she , she got hauled into court and fined five pounds for that , er she er I , I once I was just thinking the other day just telling a friend of mine , they had an actual practice air raid once and in some old buildings in the Burchells and we as kids had to go and lie in there and wait till we 'd got a tag on and what would happen to us a label and they took us to the first aid post in , an ambulance came and picked us up on a stretcher and took us to the first aid post in Road . |
| 2 | He was appointed to the first Nuffield chair in child health in the University of London in 1946 and held this post at the Hospital for Sick Children , Great Ormond Street . |
| 3 | He became a cult figure in Russia as the first cartoon character in space , the guest of honour on board a rocket celebrating the end of the Cold War . |
| 4 | Part 1 focuses on the methodological issues concerning the information needs and systems for monitoring the academic progress of entrants to first degree programmes in relation to their entry qualifications . |
| 5 | By 1980–1 , the number of CNAA first degree courses in art and design had grown to 196 , catering for over 15,350 students , of whom the great majority were to be found in the four Dip.AD specialist areas of Fine Art , Graphic Design , Three Dimensional Design and Textile and Fashion Design . |
| 6 | In addition , two agricultural colleges — Seale-Hayne , Devon in association with Plymouth Polytechnic and Harper Adams , Shropshire in association with Wolverhampton Polytechnic now offer CNAA first degree courses in Agriculture and Agricultural Technology respectively . |
| 7 | It was building on its strengths in aeronautical engineering and other areas , and had developed one of the country 's first degree courses in computer science . |
| 8 | Before my first evening class in English I was no nervous that I could n't eat ! |
| 9 | if Frank can get some first team football in spain i guess he feels that it will be better for his career than waiting for a chance at leeds — a chance that much likely will not come up . |
| 10 | The expectation was that IBM Corp would throw everything including the kitchen sink into its fiscal first quarter figures in order to give Louis Gerstner as clean a platform as possible on which to build — but the company unaccountably dressed the figures up a little , by taking a $95m tax credit in the quarter , without which the net loss would have been $380m ; interest charges in the first quarter declined by 12.5% to $305m . |
| 11 | Your first night pre-booked in advance for you , at Belfast Youth Hostel . |
| 12 | While Benjamin Dale , the composer , or Leigh Henry , the critic , lectured on Stravinsky and Schoenberg ( in 1915 ! ) , two companies of music-hall artists competed with Legs and the Woman ( the title after Shaw … ) and with the camp 's first ragtime chorus in drag : Down in Ruhleben , there I want to be , Four thousand boys would be enough for me ! |
| 13 | Lydon added the goal and try machine Offiah had the crowd buzzing with his first drop goal in Rugby League — a coolly taken effort from 25 yards . |
| 14 | His first student essays in photography show him fascinated by natural order and symmetry , the geometry of nature , the abstract face of concrete things . |
| 15 | Those schools selected for the first quality audit in mathematics or science have recently been asked to supply 12 pieces of work from across the entire year group reflecting the spread of the ability range . |
| 16 | After the appointment of the new government in May 1990 [ see pp. 37445-46 ] , two reshuffles were carried out in June and November ; the most significant appointment was that of Selemani Muana Yile as a Deputy First State Commissioner in place of Nzanda Buana Kalemba on Nov. 30 . |
| 17 | It is a safe bet to assume this competition will present no problems for them leaving them the first pipe band in history to collect every available award and go undefeated for the duration of the season . |
| 18 | Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors are a relatively new class of antidepressants that have been heavily promoted for use as first line treatment in depression . |
| 19 | The achievements of pupils with a hearing impairment will undoubtedly be affected by these factors , and this will need to be taken into account , for example , in the assessment of the first attainment target in writing . |
| 20 | In 1937 , Cottle obtained First Class Honours in Latin . |
| 21 | Later he went up to Oxford , taking his degree with first class honours in History . |
| 22 | He graduated with first class honours in oil technology from Imperial College London and his early career was spent with Amoco and Shell working in the UK , Netherlands , Guyana and Australia . |
| 23 | Having attained a First Class degree in History in 1935 , he then determined upon a doctorate , which he completed in 1938 . |
| 24 | He was bought up as a Catholic and a socialist and was educated at Harrow County School for Boys and Peterhouse , Cambridge , where he gained a first class degree in history . |
| 25 | FIRST class sport in County Durham is leading the nation as physical education becomes part of the National Curriculum . |
| 26 | Westminster 's station master apparent David Howell ( first class hons in economics at Cambridge , who happens to represent commuter Guildford as well as being Secretary of State for Transport ) , woke up with a jolt . |
| 27 | Government officials are admitting for the first time families in mid-value houses of £66,000 — £88,000 are likely to face bills of £600 not £400 as hoped . |
| 28 | The Victorian family was the first family form in history which was both long-lasting and intimate . |