Example sentences of "first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the Frenchman made his first telling touch after 12 minutes . |
| 2 | The first axillary articulates with the anterior notal process and is associated with the base of the subcostal vein . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , Microsoft 's Excel , one of the first Windows-based spreadsheets , has more than doubled its market share to 42% in the same period . |
| 4 | Accell/SQL for Windows is the first Windows-based product from Unify that allows the application to run in Microsoft Windows on the client . |
| 5 | His choice is wealth : he is at once the traditional hero of British fiction in search of a happy marriage and prosperity — Tom Jones or David Copperfield — and , in his brisk competitive zeal , the first fictional yuppie . |
| 6 | Thus , in September 1974 , the first Franco-German telecommunications satellite , Symphony , was launched by NASA . |
| 7 | The first Economic Society grew up spontaneously from the tertulia of a group of Basque gentry : it read foreign periodicals , discussed the useful sciences , set up a school and attacked the Gothic prejudice of aristocratic idleness . |
| 8 | Rose and Peters regard this period as one of ‘ treble affluence ’ ; first economic growth was large so that , second , government expenditure could increase without third , reducing through taxation the real wages of individuals . |
| 9 | The report warned that the international debt strategy could become " one of the first economic casualties " of the Gulf crisis . |
| 10 | The jobless figures were the first economic indicators to come out during the campaign , there are many more before election day . |
| 11 | It is the North West 's first economic strategy . |
| 12 | It was not precisely true , but since Emilia 's first frail arrival in the room there had been no such promise of intimacy between the two women . |
| 13 | In September 1977 the decision was made to undertake the SPOT remote-sensing programme ; the SPOT- I satellite ( launched by Ariane , V- I 6 ) transmitted its first high-resolution pictures in 1986 . |
| 14 | Five million West Germans can already receive Eurosport , and 17 million Continentals in all , and this week the company will announce its first simultaneous commentaries in languages other than English . |
| 15 | The bamboo rungs , though wide and strong , were loosely lashed with unreliable cordage , and Lorne 's and my first simultaneous step onto the lowest rung resulted in it slipping its knots and depositing us both heavily in the mud — myself for the second time in less than twenty minutes . |
| 16 | During the first simultaneous space walk by three astronauts or cosmonauts , the 4.5-tonne satellite was snatched by hand and brought into the shuttle 's recovery bay , where a new motor was attached . |
| 17 | He was the first Aboriginal to have mastered a western mode of painting and by 1940 his was a household name . |
| 18 | The first memorable and momentous occasion for the ornithologist occurred as he strolled beside the river at sunrise and caught sight of a ‘ new and beautiful pigeon ’ , a bird never before encountered by any of the natives he questioned or any of the stockmen at the out-stations . |
| 19 | ‘ It was my first memorable political experience , ’ says Hilary . |
| 20 | On my first administrative promotion in Buckinghamshire I encountered Geoff Link , for me a new colleague , but also a former teacher . |
| 21 | Before the National Anthem had finished playing , the first air-raid siren of World War 11 had sounded , a false alarm that sent the British nervously into the shelters , some — like Winston Churchill — defiantly clutching bottles of strong drink . |
| 22 | A memorandum of understanding with the Gulf Co-operation Council ( GCC ) signed in Jeddah , Saudi Arabia , in September provided for the establishment of the Arab Albanian Islamic Bank ( AAIB ) , Albania 's first Islamic bank . |
| 23 | It was the first non-governmental body to be honoured in this way . |
| 24 | Malaysia was the first ASEAN country to open a diplomatic office in the southern city , which was regarded as the country 's commercial capital and where , according to the VNA report , " a number " of Malaysians were " doing business " . |
| 25 | In February 1991 Malaysia became the first ASEAN country to open a diplomatic office in Ho Chi Minh City , the country 's commercial capital . |
| 26 | The smells began to change : the woodsmoke and the sweet smell of the dung fires gave way to the heady scent of Indian champa and the first bittersweet whiffs of China orange blossom . |
| 27 | He is alleged to have been one of the first Scots to take a degree at Cambridge . |
| 28 | AN Aberdeen lecturer is being forced to choose between becoming the first Scots academic to be made redundant and putting her sister out of a job . |
| 29 | On 13 July 1919 the first two-way crossing of the Atlantic was completed by the Beardmore-built R34 , which made the flight to Minneola in the USA in spite of carrying the world 's first airborne stowaway . |
| 30 | In its first declared objective for sending troops , i.e. the protection of Saudi Arabia against possible Iraqi invasion , the USA found legitimacy under Article 51 of the UN Charter which affirmed " the inherent right of individual or collective self-defence , if an armed attack occurs against a member of the organization , until the Security Council has taken the measures necessary to maintain peace and international security " . |