Example sentences of "first [noun] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I refer to the decision of the Labour Group that in the first instance all Conference items should be submitted to the Labour Group Executive for approval before being placed on a committee agenda . |
| 2 | Thames Polytechnic is envisaging a course which will qualify teachers for the secondary phase ; in the first instance this course will be open to teachers from the Inner London Education Authority only . |
| 3 | Despite the stigma and stress associated with a court case that threatened him with jail , he has so far managed to score 17 goals for Brentford in the First Division this season . |
| 4 | We 'll have it as the first course this evening . ’ |
| 5 | When we are children we first experience this use of power by our parents . |
| 6 | Our team is Daphne from Spalding , Fred from Lancaster and Walter from East Kilbride and our first card this week is er , goes back into our own experiences because it 's from Gill of West Yorkshire . |
| 7 | Trying to raise efficiency and morale without first setting this structure to rights is like trying to lay bricks without mortar . |
| 8 | At first glance this constellation gives the impression of being a vast , faint open cluster . |
| 9 | ‘ Let's hope we get back before first light this time . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I found you at first light this morning , ’ he said , getting up to take her half-empty plate . |
| 11 | Hoar frost yesterday and the first snow this morning . |
| 12 | We built our first pond this summer . |
| 13 | Shrewdly placed that year , ‘ Charlie ’ became the first horse this century to win nine handicaps in a season . |
| 14 | ‘ Is it quantity — or quality — you are after ? ’ was his first question that morning . |
| 15 | Erm we we aim to get as much development in our area as possible and coming back to your first question this afternoon , I I do n't really se any problem with the North Yorkshire proposals , that 's the middle range . |
| 16 | In view of the answer that I have given to the first question this second question does not arise and it would be unwise for me to attempt to answer it on a hypothetical basis . |
| 17 | Actually , I am not sure that I was there on that night of his arrival , and I do n't claim to remember all the details or to have been as impressed by his appearance , framed in the doorway , as some people I drink with do ; I think they just want to talk about their witnessing his first appearance that way — as if he was an angel or something extraordinary — because of what went on to happen later . |
| 18 | She had her first meeting this morning with a textiles importer called Colin Weatherhead , who had promised to show her a range of fabrics he was positive she was going to love . |
| 19 | MALCOLM ALLEN , who has not been able to get into the Norwich first team this season , showed that Wales ' absentee forwards , Ian Rush and Mark Hughes , had better beware of him . |
| 20 | Sean Gregan , Lee Ellison and Anthony Isaacs all products of the youth policy , have all done well in the first team this season . |
| 21 | The information had arrived by the first post that morning , and Jared Tunstall already knew more about Neil Cochrane than Neil Cochrane did about him . |
| 22 | Jeff McGill clocked 1–06–25 and Les Brill , in his first event this year , 1–14–28 . |
| 23 | So just watch it after the first dose that evening , if you g Especially if you get out of bed to have a wee . |
| 24 | Well another inspired team selection from Wilko has left us 13 points behind the scum , picking Hodge in what must be just about his first outing this year over Rocky resulted in a rather insiped performance from the midfield . |
| 25 | Well , it 's not my first day any way . |
| 26 | That had been the first news this night had brought the Duke — that Napoleon 's army had branched off the Brussels road to drive the Prussians eastwards away from the British . |
| 27 | Bradford , of course , gets its first game this year since the ground was shut down in 1985 because of the unsafe structure of the pavilion . |
| 28 | Rugby — and Gloucester 's former captain Mike Hamlin joins former team mate Mike Teague for his first game this week with his new club Moseley . |
| 29 | Gooch 's first priority this morning will be to finalise a side from the 14 players who reported to Old Trafford . |
| 30 | Her first priority this morning must be to phone Margaret and tell her she was on Suzie 's trail . |