Example sentences of "the first [noun] " in BNC.

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1 If the move up-market started anywhere , it was on Saturday 4 July 1981 , when SLOA ran the first PSLC over the Settle & Carlisle and down the Appleby-Warcop branch , for what now seems a very modest fare of £15 first class , £12 second class from London ( Euston ) , together with a tray meal at £2 !
2 The first Challenger trimaran ( three hulls ) was produced in 1978 and there are now more than 120 in use throughout the UK .
3 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 .
4 I may be the first challenger for Lennox , so it 's not surprising that I 'm behind Bowe . ’
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 Neil Blender and Billy Ruff were the first pros from the States to skate the ramp .
9 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 .
10 The first Tay Bridge was completed in 1878 .
11 The first Tay Bridge showed up the lack of expertise and foresight required for such a structure , no wind tunnels or sophisticated testing were available to the engineers in the late 1870s .
12 Moomintroll and the Snork Maiden feel the first flutterings of love and , for once , we are offered a complete family ( the Victorian habit of removing one , or both , parents was a convention that survived into Ransome 's time ) .
13 She looked out of the window and saw the brown strip of plough , and then the line of willows marking the river , and then the green slopes rising , dotted now with the first sheep of the year .
14 The first demarcation is between what is and is not ‘ higher education ’ ; this constitutes the general boundary within which knowledge and curricula are structured .
15 BRISTOL & West Building Society , in conjunction with the stockbroker Close Brothers , has launched BESSA Bristol & West , the first BES ‘ arranged exit ’ scheme involving a building society .
16 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 .
17 Air travel grew rapidly : the first Pan Am passenger flight was on 18 January 1928 , although the first commercial passenger flights had been in German Zeppelins before the First World War , and French and British airlines had begun by the early 1920s .
18 By this time the first Pan American Mystère 20 had been delivered to the PAC facility at Burbank for outfitting .
19 Two years later the first monuments were taken into care , and many more followed .
20 The first APIs will include Apple 's OLE-like Bento , Novell NetWare object extensions and technology from the Apple/IBM multimedia alliance , Kaleida Inc .
21 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 .
22 As it happened , Walter Kamm almost dismissed Joyce after the first audition .
23 The first phenomenon , the hatred , is incontrovertibly evil .
24 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 .
25 At or before the first directions appointment or hearing , whichever occurs first , the applicant must file at court a statement on Form CHA 72 confirming that a copy of the application has been served on each respondent ( FPCR , r4(7) ; FPR , r4.4(7) ) .
26 It will inform the recipient of the date , time and place of the first directions appointment or hearing , as appropriate .
27 In other cases early appointment is clearly desirable so that the guardian can attend the first directions appointment .
28 The application must be served on all respondents at least seven days before the first directions appointment or hearing .
29 The application must be served on all respondents at least three days before the first directions appointment or hearing .
30 The application must be served on all respondents at least seven days before the first directions appointment or hearing .
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