Example sentences of "the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first Challenger trimaran ( three hulls ) was produced in 1978 and there are now more than 120 in use throughout the UK . |
| 2 | Il Moro won , becoming the first challenger to claim a finals place , while Nippon 's loss to New Zealand made her the first to be eliminated . |
| 3 | I may be the first challenger for Lennox , so it 's not surprising that I 'm behind Bowe . ’ |
| 4 | The men are now looking forward to Saturday when the first Challenger tanks arrive ; it 's these that 'll play a key role in any ground battles should war become unavoidable . |
| 5 | But there again , he never sent her to the really big houses because , as he said , if there was anything going , the servants would have had the first pick . |
| 6 | Museums will have the first pick of a huge art mountain which has been allowed to accumulate over the years as the result of an income support scheme for artists which was stopped in 1984 . |
| 7 | He was busy in the bottom of the second punt , and when he climbed out of it he cut the rope securing the first punt with his sword , and then used his foot to launch it out across the water . |
| 8 | The first demarcation is between what is and is not ‘ higher education ’ ; this constitutes the general boundary within which knowledge and curricula are structured . |
| 9 | The first close-up in Straw Dogs is of Susan George 's nipples , seen through a fetching sweater , which have the male townsfolk , young and old , leering . |
| 10 | The first body-blow to this belief was dealt by Kinsey , Pomeroy and Martin , who concluded that , far from a high-point of sexual feeling and tension existing only in the earlier adult years and continuing only to around the mid-fifties , sexuality and sexual activity decline after youth only in the most gradual way , with no set or probable point of cessation . |
| 11 | As it happened , Walter Kamm almost dismissed Joyce after the first audition . |
| 12 | The first phenomenon , the hatred , is incontrovertibly evil . |
| 13 | Secondly , and a possible explanation for the first phenomenon , only those companies having on their own staff a group or individual of at least the same calibre and ability as the outside group are likely to achieve success in this type of collaboration . |
| 14 | Veteran farmer William Robertson , Oudenard , Bridge of Earn , is probably the first farmer to have his combine working in Scotland this year . |
| 15 | We announced only last week the first farmer co-operative with five farms seeking to develop a market . |
| 16 | The facility of incurring the first obligation became a temptation to a second . |
| 17 | ‘ He used to say that the first obligation as a sports writer was not to be in the least boring ; that you had to try and retain the excitement of the event in your writing — without taking liberties with the truth or manufacturing drama . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ What about the first identification ? |
| 19 | no , the brochure would not necessary have been out of date , it depended when the first occupation was , if er the first occupation was in July or August it may not have been necessary to update the brochure on Sept on the first of September |
| 20 | no , the brochure would not necessary have been out of date , it depended when the first occupation was , if er the first occupation was in July or August it may not have been necessary to update the brochure on Sept on the first of September |
| 21 | The F-Plan is the first slimming diet which enables you to follow this formula . |
| 22 | In practice , the first session of the inter-governental conference will be attached to the Rome EC summit next December , although serious bargaining will only start some months later . |
| 23 | In practice , the first session of the inter-governmental conference will be attached to the Rome EC summit next December , although serious bargaining will only start some months later . |
| 24 | Aravinda de Silva anchored the tourists with an unbeaten 75 , but their progress in reply to Australia 's first innings of 367 was painfully slow on a hot day , with the first session yielding only 50 runs . |
| 25 | We got him to come and fix it before the first session . |
| 26 | In 1549 , two years after the close of the first session of the Council of Trent — the Council whose stupendous achievements encompassed the comprehensive definition of Catholic doctrine and the unchallengeable assertion of papal power , and which has been described as the creator of the modern Catholic church — John Hamilton , archbishop of St Andrews since 1547 , held the first of his own reforming councils . |
| 27 | The first session was opened at Stratford Langthorne , in Waltham Forest , on 21 September 1630 . |
| 28 | Board results of the strongest club match played this year : GM Hubner 1–0 GM Christiansen ; GM Yusupov 1–0 GM Lutz ; GM Ribli DRAW GM Hort ; GM Hertneck DRAW GM Vaganian ; GM Bonsch 0–1 GM Hickl ; GM Bischoff 1–0 GM Knaak ; IM Stangl 0–1 GM Vogt ; IM Schlosser DRAW IM Jackelen ; 4.5–3.5 England 's strongest league , the London League , was effectively decided on Tuesday when King 's Head , based at the pub of the same name in Moscow Road , Bayswater , achieved a 5–2 lead in the first session of play against Wood Green . |
| 29 | From May 16 — 29 , however , he will be hosting the first session of amatory writing courses at the European Centre for Holistic Studies on the Greek island of Skyros — very apt for someone preoccupied with sex , death and the Oedipus complex . |
| 30 | Mr Ashdown , campaigning in north Wales , raised the stakes on electoral reform by saying that his precondition for talks would be legislation to implement PR in the first session of Parliament . |