Example sentences of "first [adj] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He was probably the first deaf man in the world to do so . |
| 5 | The Oral School for the Deaf 's fine academic record is not disputed — the school produced the first deaf Fellow of the Geological Society , and the first deaf Ph.D . |
| 6 | It was the first deaf club in the country to levy an annual subscription charge . |
| 7 | The first definite approach for the use of LMS workshops on government work apart from preliminary discussions on ambulance trains in 1929 and 1936 , and information about workshop capacity supplied to Sir Cyril Hurcomb for the Committee of Imperial Defence in 1934 , occurred in June 1937 . |
| 8 | His first triple jump of the year is likely to be in Jena , Germany , on May 28. — FORMER Inter Counties cross country champion Paul Cuskin has resigned from Valli Harriers to join Sunderland Harriers . |
| 9 | Ms Hoey is the first Labour frontbencher in the Commons to be sacked since Mr Smith replaced Neil Kinnock as party leader . |
| 10 | After that , he flies to Paris for a meeting with the French President , then on to Germany for the first historic conference with the heads of all the NATO , European Community and Warsaw Pact countries . |
| 11 | Her strong commitment to women 's rights led her to write the first Salvadorean publication on the oppression of women , The Condition of Women in El Salvador , published in Mexico in 1961 . |
| 12 | Eric Shipton spent his first alpine season in the Dauphiné in 1925 . |
| 13 | However it is important to take reliable contraceptive precautions until the operation is performed , and some doctors also advise the use of contraceptive precautions until the first normal period after the operation . |
| 14 | His first professional contact with the Royal Navy came when he joined Navy News in 1969 . |
| 15 | He made his first professional purchase at the age of 16 , while still at art college , when he bought a plate for two shillings at Preston market . |
| 16 | Her first professional appearance at the Liverpool Playhouse in A Midsummer Night 's Dream — reflecting her classical training . |
| 17 | Englishman Wayne Stephens gained his first professional victory in the Nigerian Open , the first event of the new season 's Challenge Tour . |
| 18 | Miss Hayes , who lived in a 21-room Victorian house overlooking the Hudson River at Nyack , acted in her first professional role at the age of six . |
| 19 | Born in Washington on 10 October , 1900 , Miss Hayes had her first professional role at the age of six as Prince Charles in The Royal Family . |
| 20 | The day was fresh and clear and our first panoramic view over the Wye from Monsal Head was literally breathtaking . |
| 21 | The day was fresh and clear and our first panoramic view over the Wye from Monsal Head was literally breathtaking . |
| 22 | The first striking feature of the collaboration we observed was that most of it was associated with individual rather than shared tasks . |
| 23 | Although SVR4 MP was the first technical success for the UI technology committees , Price says SVR4.1 ES should be regarded as UI 's technological linchpin for the future . |
| 24 | Tony was the first Technical Adviser for the lager operation and ran the training programme for all the breweries that handled the brand in the 1960s at the beginning of the later boom . |
| 25 | The new line includes the first air-cooled machines in the C90 series , a two-processor C92A and a four-processor C94A , which it says were developed in response to demand from Japanese commercial users . |
| 26 | The new line includes the first air-cooled machines in the C90 series , a two-processor C92A and a four-processor C94A , which it says were developed in response to demand from Japanese commercial users . |
| 27 | Satish Nambiar , the commander of the UN Protection Forces for Yugoslavia ( UNIPROFOR ) , arrived in Yugoslavia on March 9 accompanied by the first advance party of the peace-keeping force agreed by the Security Council in February [ see p. 38778 ] . |
| 28 | We have used the same device to produce Guinness Draught Bitter in a can — our first non-stout product in the UK to bear the Guinness name . |
| 29 | The first working draft of the specification is scheduled to be released by the end of the year . |
| 30 | Born in what was now Inner Mongolia , Ulanhu became one of the first Mongol members of the CCP when he joined in 1925 . |