Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] the first [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year The Mary Whitehouse Experience became the first TV programme to be reported to the Broadcasting Standards Council after a derogatory sketch about Going For Gold star Henry Kelly was shown . |
| 2 | In 1931 the Polytechnic Touring Association organized the first air charter holiday , flying twenty-four passengers from Croydon , south of London , in a four-engined Heracles . |
| 3 | The photograph shows the first lifeboat boat to be lifted in the new hoist , the Watson class Joseph Soar ( Civil Service No. 34 ) , as part of the proving trials by the contractors , Laings . |
| 4 | Michael Grade chose close-of-poll hour to unleash the first TV showing of Scandal ( C4 ) , which showed the Conservative party in a pretty bad light ( admittedly , a 30-year-old bad light ) . |
| 5 | On the first day of the launch Manchester branch received the first Home Purchaser with a Bolt-on Critical Illness application from a Bolton Agent , on his own life . |
| 6 | That 's why Empathy created the first skincare range specially for women over forty . |
| 7 | Focus on the battle to win the First Division title and the struggle to stay in the Second |
| 8 | The Institute introduced the first video package in 1982 and currently has eight titles available for sale . |
| 9 | Desert Storm , with its thousands of sorties a day , could have been planned without computers ( the Schlieffen plan launched the first world war with sweat and brainpower , little more ) ; but computers allow the plans to be fine-tuned and to be altered quickly . |
| 10 | In a narrow sense my main interest is the period in which the Kaiser ruled over Germany , which of course includes the First World War . |
| 11 | Our new size Journal represents the first format change since 1976 when the former tabloid paper became an A4 magazine . |
| 12 | Although the Yom Kippur War triggered the first oil price shock , this was not the cause . |
| 13 | England 's record try-scorer held off his tackler , fed younger brother Tony on the loop and the 24-year-old celebrated the first brother partnership in an England line-up for 54 years by scoring in the left-hand corner . |
| 14 | The test can be carried out any time of day — there is no need to use the first morning urine — and its results are not affected by medicines such as pain relievers , antibiotics or the contraceptive pill . |
| 15 | Fittingly the local-born lad took the first spot kick which completed the first leg of what could see the city 's two clubs meet for the first time in the last four . |
| 16 | In this way glycine becomes the first amino acid in the protein , being carried into position on the ribosome assembly line by its tRNA . |
| 17 | Contemporary idealism , however , dates from the period following the First World War when , partly as a reaction to the horrors of the war , it briefly achieved prominence as an approach to global politics , influencing academics and politicians . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , as he began to recover from his operation , Mr Honecker clearly had to face the problem of the embassy refugees and the mass emigration , and the decision to let the first batch go was obviously his . |
| 19 | For instance , in 1986 , he and his crew made the first Hooker crossing of the Atlantic to be Ireland 's representative in the Parade of Sail which celebrated the Centenary of the Statue of Liberty . |
| 20 | In his Autumn Statement ( p 124 ) , the Chancellor of the Exchequer raised the first year capital allowance for plant and machinery ( excluding cars ) to 40% for 12 months from 1 November 1992 and introduced an initial allowance of 20% for industrial and agricultural buildings where contracts are placed before 31 October 1993 and they are brought into use before the end of 1994 . |
| 21 | Rub over the seal overleaf with a silver coin to reveal eligibility to double the first prize value to £100,000 |
| 22 | In Massachusetts , William Weld became the first Republican governor in the state for 20 years when he defeated John Silber , the Democrat who was aspiring to succeed Michael Dukakis . |
| 23 | And of course , pen computing is also to the fore , with TriGem announcing the first pen starter pack priced at under £2,000 . |
| 24 | Hewlett-Packard Co last week launched the first interconnect board under its February agreement with IBM Corp under which the two committed to adapting fibre optic interconnection boards for linking computers to peripherals and computers to computers developed by IBM for the AS/400 and RS/6000 to meet the ANSI Fibre Channel standard . |
| 25 | A possible response to this may be that if we want to understand the concept of knowledge we must treat the use of ‘ I know ’ ( the activity of avouching ) as the primary thing , but that there are other psychological verbs — such as ‘ I hope ’ — in which a speaker using the first person singular of the present tense does simply express his mental state . |
| 26 | The peace treaty ending the First World War remained unsigned by Germany six months after the eleventh hour of the eleventh day in the eleventh month of 1918 . |
| 27 | Nothing else was known of Everest until the Alpine Club and the Royal Geographical Society organised the first reconnaissance expedition in 1921 . |
| 28 | A 43-year-old man underwent the first heart transplant operation at the London Hospital , Whitechapel . |
| 29 | In mid-February 1990 the Powers announced that German flights to Berlin would also be allowed and on Aug. 5 a plane made the first Lufthansa flight to a Berlin airport since 1945 landing at Schönefeld airport ( on the outskirts of East Berlin ) . |
| 30 | In October last year , Federal Express , Business Logistics became the first transport company to win accreditation jointly with another company . |