Example sentences of "first [noun] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A new brewery is producing its first beer this week . |
| 32 | The first Briton this century to hold a world heavyweight title appeared before the media yesterday at the start of a promotional tour of the ‘ if this is Monday , it must be Glasgow ’ variety and hinted that his next visit could be in his working apparel . |
| 33 | However verbally reticent he was , though , there was nothing wrong with McEnroe 's play as he overwhelmed poor Kulti , who knocked the 33-year-old superstar out of the French Open in the first round this year . |
| 34 | Lendl , who won his third successive Open title in 1987 , retired against Australian qualifier Neil Borwick while trailing 4-6 6-4 3-1 and became the record fifth men 's seed to lose in the first round this year . |
| 35 | On successive days , Tom Rosenthal at Deutsch signed up a father son , commissioning farceur Brian Rix ( Lord Rix ) to write a history of his trade , currently entitled Life in the Farce Lane , and buying Jonathan Rix ‘ s first novel Some Hope , to be published in the autumn . |
| 36 | The Box Office opens 15 minutes before the first performance each day and closes 15 minutes after the start of the last performance . |
| 37 | If you want some inside gossip , I reckon Rocastle will be first choice this year … in fact why do nt we have a poll of what our best team would be ? current players only etc . |
| 38 | McKenzie , who lost his WBO bantamweight title 13 months ago when another Puerto Rican , Rafael Del Valle , stopped him in a round , will now have to consider his future after becoming Britain 's first fighter this century to win world titles at three different weights . |
| 39 | Anyone who reads Capital without posing the critical question of its object sees no malice in this word that ‘ speaks ’ to him : he happily continues the discourse whose first word this word may be , the ideological discourse of history , and then the historicist discourse . |
| 40 | Those are the steeples of Saigon Cathedral — the first sight any traveller ever sees of " the Pearl of the Orient . " |
| 41 | At first sight this provision might seem to be a contradiction in terms , but some light is cast upon it by the Declaration appended at the end of the Single European Act , which , whatever its legal status may be , states that the conference considered that the provisions of Article 130R(5) ( 2 ) did not affect the principles resulting from the judgment handed down by the European Court in the ERTA case . |
| 42 | At first sight this question might seem to be a nonsense : since , as we have seen , a reasonable definition of the Universe is ‘ everything that has , does and will exist ’ , surely there can not be more than one of them ? |
| 43 | At first sight this degree of fluidity in the Japanese labour market sits uneasily with the presumption that employment is for life because this would make wages a quasi-fixed cost . |
| 44 | At first sight this option seems the political equivalent of the status quo with low-level waste . |
| 45 | At first sight this project looks promising . |
| 46 | At first sight this arrangement might possibly appear needlessly elaborate , but it would be difficult to obtain in any other way a full body of tone corresponding to that provided by the sustaining pedal of the piano . |
| 47 | At first sight this energy seems sufficient to produce ‘ free ’ W particles copiously . |
| 48 | A court in Aix should make a first ruling this month whether Vasarely or Debbasch is legally in control of the Vasarely Foundation . |
| 49 | The country 's newest and biggest university celebrates its twenty first birthday this week . |
| 50 | This section does not cover the first £25 each claim each person except loss of deposit claims . |
| 51 | The first meal former doctor 's receptionist Shaunagh rustled up for him was cheese on toast with pickled walnuts . |
| 52 | For the first ballot each voter will indicate one choice from the candidates listed . |
| 53 | They moved their stand on to 79 , the second best of the first wicket this season , before Kellett was caught behind off Jon Ayling for 37 . |
| 54 | Education Minister Jeremy Hanley paid a visit recently to Bangor Girls ' High School to see first hand this technology in action . |
| 55 | The sight of his motorcycle first thing that morning had made it necessary for his Mother to speak sharply to him about his language . |
| 56 | First thing this morning , Martha put a fifty-pound note into the pocket of an apron you subsequently wore , thinking it to be yours . ’ |
| 57 | I 've only known you since first thing this morning and I have n't had time to take everything in . |
| 58 | After visiting the bathroom first thing this morning , find your tape measure and make a note of your latest inch loss progress . |
| 59 | I tried at regular intervals throughout the night and first thing this morning . |
| 60 | In fact , now I come to think of it , I 'll bet it was she who put that stink-bomb under my desk here first thing this morning . |