Example sentences of "and the first [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHAT do the following have in common : a machine that can write the Bible on a pinhead ; a single-lens microscope that magnifies 1000 times ; a barometer that measures the difference in atmospheric pressure across the thickness of a book ; a 15-cm ( 6-inch ) telescope that fits into a jacket pocket ; and the first bicycle crossing of the uninhabited central region of Iceland ? |
| 2 | We will call these descriptions noun , and the first type name . |
| 3 | The trouble is with the second horn parts , they often often have a wider register gap , and the first horn part which tends to waver up and down in vaguely the same place while the second sort of goes woo woo woo , jumps up and down . |
| 4 | Last to putt , Treleaven sent his 14-footer into the cup to become the first Hampshire-born player to win the Salver and the first home county champion since Ian Gray in 1982 . |
| 5 | Members began to go out into the country on day trips , and the first cricket match between two deaf clubs in the country , which later led to the formation of inter-institute sports activities of billiards , darts , and other sports , took place on 23rd July 1892 at Manchester between Manchester Deaf and Dumb Institute and the Bolton and Bury Institutes . |
| 6 | " The cricket ground recently acquired by the Institute , is in fairly good order , and the first cricket match played thereon , took place on Sat . |
| 7 | It had been known for a long time that histamine was responsible for producing many allergies and the first antihistamine drug was produced in France in 1937 . |
| 8 | and the first division table looks a lot healthier for Gloucester today … remember the bottom four go down … there are still games to go though … next one is Bath |
| 9 | THE THIRD Kitzbühel cricket match will take place from July 23–26 , 1992 , and the first Velden cricket match will be held from August 21–23 , 1992 . |
| 10 | This flexibility is particularly valuable when so many of the subjects within the Faculty are not taught at school and the first year university course will be the first opportunity to sample them . |
| 11 | Part-time courses , which included 228 first degree courses , also recruited well and the first year intake showed an increase of 11 per cent . |
| 12 | The stern ramp is down almost as quickly as the anchor and the first mexeflote raft is soon manoeuvring into position … . |
| 13 | On a timetable tentatively discussed , that might place the demonstration on Saturday 17 April and the first recall date Friday 23 . |
| 14 | Later in December , three meetings were held in one day — those of the Bondholders ' , the Club 's first Annual General Meeting and the first committee meeting of the constitutionally elected members — Anker Simmons chairing the first two and Dr. J. Susman the third . |
| 15 | We developed the first look-down shoot-down radar system , the first track-while-scan radar for a tactical aircraft , and the first radar system with multi-shot , air-to-air capability . |
| 16 | But we were the first metal band to have a platinum album and the first metal band to sell six million albums in the States alone . |
| 17 | Vu Oanh , 67 , and Le Phuoc Tho , 64 , were both elected to the secretariat in 1986 and had been in charge of mass mobilization and agriculture , respectively ; Pham Van Kai , 58 , the Soviet-trained Chair of the State Commission for Planning , was one of five southerners in the new politburo and a former mayor of Ho Chi Minh City ; Bui Thien Ngo , 62 , was Permanent Vice-Minister of the Interior ; Nong Duc Manh , 51 , a member of the Tay ethnic group and the first minority leader to be elected to the politburo , was head of the central committee 's commission for nationalities ; Pham The Duyet , 55 , was secretary of the Hanoi party committee and a former trade union leader ; Nguyen Duc Binh , 64 , was director of the Nguyen Duc Binh Institute for training party cadres ; Vo Tran Chi , 64 , was secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City party committee . |
| 18 | Twelve members of the cabinet were now Hutus , including Prime Minster Adrien Sibomana , Finance Minister Gerard Niyibigira , and the first Hutu head of public security , Laurent Kagimbi ( Secretary of State in the Ministry of Interior and Development of Local Collectives in charge of Public Security ) . |
| 19 | Some even go so far as to link its emergence to the coming of reggae music to Britain , circa 1970 , and the first reggae film widely seen in Britain , Perry Henzell 's ( 1972 ) The Harder They Come starring Jimmy Cliff . |
| 20 | ‘ Not this time , sweet , ’ he said raggedly , moving over her , slowly letting her feel some of his weight and the first seeking touch of his body . |
| 21 | In 1957 Russia stunned the West by launching an Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile ( ICBM ) and the first space satellite , ‘ Sputnik ’ . |
| 22 | For the moment , we shall limit our discussion of this question to those features which relate directly to the deictic context , those features which will permit interpretation for deictic expressions like the temporal expression now , the spatial expression here , and the first person expression I. Are there standard procedures for determining what information is relevant to the interpretation of these expressions ? |
| 23 | In other words , there is an asymmetry between the third person singular , present tense , use of the verb — for example , ‘ He believes … ’ — and the first person singular , present tense , use — ‘ I believe … ’ . |
| 24 | The object language is already taken to contain attitude operators and the first person pronoun . |
| 25 | Fellow Australian Ron Tauranac joined him as chief designer and the first Brabham car was ready in 1962 . |
| 26 | This produces a trade-off between the quality of the contract and the first mover advantage that accrues to the innovator of a derivative contract . |
| 27 | It was finally fixed in place and glazed just in time for a christening and the first flower festival to be held for a while . |
| 28 | There is , however , one procedure that has been found to produce apparently the reverse effect — Hall and Schachtman ( 1987 ) have demonstrated that leaving a long interval between the last session of pre-exposure to the stimulus and the first test session will result in the restoration of an habituated UR while leaving latent inhibition unaffected . |
| 29 | The first independent labour MP , Keir Hardie , was elected from West Ham South in 1892 , and the first labour council assumed control of municipal affairs in 1898 . |
| 30 | His vision included slum brigades , lodging houses , eating houses , legal aid and the first labour exchange . |