Example sentences of "[noun] 's first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 24 June 1991 Air Chief Marshal Sir Michael Graydon , Air Officer Commanding in Chief Strike Command , formally opened the Association 's first Eagle Lodge at Wexford House , Melton Mowbray . |
| 2 | The original AA badge was issued in 1906 , and bore the signature of the association 's first secretary , Stenson ( later Sir Stenson ) Cooke . |
| 3 | The association 's first conference in 1983 looked at the needs and rights of black children in care . |
| 4 | Efforts are also being made to have there some of the surviving competitors in the association 's first match , on the Limavady farm of the late John C Drennan on February 16 , 1938 . |
| 5 | Victor Ceserani MBE , FHCIMA , head of the School of Hospitality Studies ( 1964–80 ) , has accepted an invitation to become the Association 's first president . |
| 6 | Xanthe 's first instinct was clearly to refuse but , sulky or not , she was also lonely , and there was an undemanding grandmotherliness about Mrs Young that promised an uncritical listening ear . |
| 7 | The trend towards greater leniency for most offenders can be explained by the operation of the first part of Durkheim 's first law , which postulates increasing leniency as collective sentiments become more secular . |
| 8 | ‘ It was our horse 's first run in handicap company , and the race will have put him spot on because he was still a bit rusty . |
| 9 | Only four horses cleared it , including Tina Cassan with Genesis , but this was the horse 's first show since December and he went on to lower three other fences . |
| 10 | The anti-apartheid brigade 's first blow failed to register . |
| 11 | On a brighter note for Hibs — this was the Easter Road side 's first point in three matches — 20-year-old Steven Tweed , playing only his second game for the club , produced a solid performance alongside the impressive Gordon Hunter in the centre of the defence , while another youngster , 22-year-old David Farrell , also earned praise from Miller for succeeding in keeping the evergreen Davie Cooper relatively quiet . |
| 12 | First they killed the ball , enabling Adrian Davies to kick a short penalty goal , his side 's first score of the half . |
| 13 | BORDON 'S first doctor , the late Sam Macilwain , is to be commemorated at the new Chase Community Hospital with a ward named after him . |
| 14 | It was the day following Ari 's first test and Leila , Ari and Roirbak had met in the canteen . |
| 15 | The Orb 's first tune goes on and on ; a kind of broken , haunting sonata for new technology that builds with enormous subtlety . |
| 16 | A former Travel Writer of the Year , Neil 's first word as a baby was ‘ wuhu ’ , which he later discovered to be a town on the Yangtze River . |
| 17 | On the other hand , Morley 's First Booke of Ayres , or little short Songs , to sing and play to the lute , with the bass viole ( 1600 ) , which includes that marvel of flexible English word-setting ‘ Thyrsis and Milla ’ , and ‘ It was a lover and his lass ’ , has no part-song version . |
| 18 | Only a very small proportion was published : Antony Holborne 's Pavans , Galliards , Almains and Morley 's First Booke of Consort Lessons ( both 1599 ) , Dowland 's Lachrimae or Seaven Teares figured in seaven passionate Pavans … ( 1605 ) , Rosseter 's Lessons for Consort ( 1609 ) , two fantasias which Byrd included in Psalmes , Songs , and Sonnets ( 1611 ) and John Adson 's Courtly Masquing Ayres ( also 1611 ) . |
| 19 | That followed Waddle 's first goal for Wednesday , a low left-foot drive from 20 yards . |
| 20 | TREVOR FRANCIS last night predicted a record goals output for football 's first season under the new back pass law . |
| 21 | He rejoined and his name appeared on Jean 's first list . |
| 22 | Gidon Kremer 's first Teldec recording is the Beethoven Violin Concerto at the Stefaniensaal in July . |
| 23 | of contested cases were dealt with in less than six weeks , and further noted the delay that can occur between the defendant 's first contact with the police and the issue of the summons . |
| 24 | The defendant 's first appearance in court is secured in one of two ways , depending on the procedure adopted by the police . |
| 25 | Ceauşescu 's first contact with British statesmanship was through the interest that he had in obtaining British technology and the up-and-coming Antony Wedgwood-Benn had in selling it . |
| 26 | These contradictory elements drew Eleanor 's first image of New York : smokestacks , horse-drawn carts , the steeple of Trinity church , shipchandlers offices , and English spoken in unfamiliar accents . |
| 27 | Hill 's first stud was Whitsbury in Hampshire , which he bought in 1943 . |
| 28 | The only two comparative rarities are Hill 's first edition of 1560 , and the first English edition of the Geneva version , printed by Christopher Barker in 1576 . |
| 29 | The CPV 's first candidate , Deputy Foreign Minister Tran Quang Co , rejected the post outright . |
| 30 | Culham 's first tokamak , CLEO , came into operation in 1972 . |