Example sentences of "the first [noun sg] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first close-up in Straw Dogs is of Susan George 's nipples , seen through a fetching sweater , which have the male townsfolk , young and old , leering . |
| 2 | Americans regard the contingent fee system as a better substitute for legal aid , and in many cases it is , but it does encourage meritless suits , since — and this is the third problem — even if a frivolous case is dismissed on the first day in court , the defendant is still liable for his costs . |
| 3 | The Government came under heavy pressure from the Law Society of Scotland to retain the contributory band to ensure that applicants were not encouraged to waste police and court time by using legal aid procedures to delay an eventual plea of guilty on the first day in court . |
| 4 | He spent the first day in bed , after going to the Chinese takeaway to make sure he did n't starve . |
| 5 | the first day in health , if we can fit it in , but by Easter term |
| 6 | In the event , Israel walked out of the talks on the first day in protest at the presence of the head of the Palestinian delegation , Mohammed Hallaj , director of the Washington-based Centre for Policy Analysis on Palestine and a former member of the Palestine National Council ( PNC — the Palestinian " parliament-in-exile " ) . |
| 7 | Sir Aubrey also became the first man in Test history to dismiss a namesake when he bowled F.W. for 7 in the first innings . |
| 8 | He became the first man in history to walk into a restaurant and trip over a ceiling . |
| 9 | A woman seeks the truth of her ancestry , and discovers truth can be what you want it to be ; in a hospital a neglected old man weaves fables in a lost language ; fantasy becomes reality when a young boy 's sense of wonder is awakened by the first man in space ; a man 's obsession with ‘ the dogs ’ has grim but farcical consequences ; a couple 's holiday in France is disturbed by the ghosts of war ; a chance encounter brings an unexpected delight to a birdwatcher . |
| 10 | traces the history of the " Space Race " from Sputnik to Shuttle , including the first man in Space , the Soyuz , Mercury , Mariner and Viking programmes , and of course the Apollo manned moon landings , and the Shuttle , its success and tragedy . |
| 11 | He did n't understand that you have to throw away a million pounds in the first year in order to establish a readership and the faith of advertisers . ’ |
| 12 | We went with Traffens one year , the first year in fact we went with Traffens and that was super because when we got to the other side sort of , it was then about ten o'clock he said well if you if there 's enough people want it we will transform your transform your seats into bunks and most people wanted and you were able to push the seats so one , two pairs of seats one of the seats went up and the other went down and you had four bunks |
| 13 | From this treatise and other evidence , it can be deduced that Dom Pérignon achieved the following innovations : he was the first person in Champagne to produce a truly red wine ; the first person to produce a perfectly limpid white wine from black grapes ; he invented the traditional Champagne press ; perfected the art of blending wines from many different vineyards to produce one consistent and superior cuvée , or blend ; reintroduced the cork-stopper to France ; and pioneered the use of stronger English glass to withstand the internal pressure generated by sparkling wine . |
| 14 | He lost , thereby achieving the distinction of becoming the first person in history who could be proved to have failed his degree . |
| 15 | ‘ Just the job , ’ thought the enthusiastic Gary , and thus became the first person in history to attempt to convert a quartet of Jehovah 's Witness . |
| 16 | It 's the first occasion in fact on which I 've been permitted to speak at any meeting dealing with this application . |
| 17 | The Order is the first Order in Council made under Section 40 of the Maintenance Orders ( Reciprocal Enforcement ) Act , 1972 |
| 18 | Yet Tom Fawthrop could write in It52 that the RSSF represented a move away from ‘ the sectarian left ’ and ‘ the move into a deeper , more imaginative level of politics … we will be the first generation in history to consciously plan and map-out its own future , and create a society of its own . ’ |
| 19 | This was the first increase in troop numbers for four years , and brought the Army presence to nearly 11,000 ( the peak level , in 1973 , having been some 17,000 ) . |
| 20 | ALTHOUGH the first course in business ethics was offered by Harvard Business School back in 1915 , it is only since the mid-1980s that business schools have truly taken the subject to their hearts . |
| 21 | Some of the problems inherent in the sociological study of crime are illustrated in the first reading in Chapter 5 ( pages 76–77 ) . |
| 22 | This conference provides the first opportunity in West Belfast itself for the unemployed , community groups , local business people , policy makers , managers and administrators of employment and training schemes , funders , careers teachers , trade unionists and others to discuss present and future employment prospects of people living in West Belfast . |
| 23 | So , I think we should say we are sceptical , and I think the paper puts it correctly er , we are sceptical of whether the reforms of the first consortium in fact , is going to meet the needs in terms of new health area and I know that time will come , they 're talking about the lot , it 's gon na wonderful and that the our economies should get all I can say is that the likelihood is the only f the area committee er , so that residents can comment managers , but since we 've already had a nine hundred percent increase in senior management in the health service in the past five years up from nine hundred to over ten thousand at a cost of fifty to two hundred and fifty million pounds I 'm rather sceptical about that one as well ! |
| 24 | Non-finite clauses are those whose predicator element consists of a non-finite verbal group , such as those in which the first verb in sequence is in one of the following forms . |
| 25 | After trials in the pilot schools ( see below ) the following form of identification was adopted in the first question in part one : |
| 26 | ‘ Indica seemed a good name for an art gallery ’ , says Miles , ‘ and it was the first name in Latin for marijuana . |
| 27 | ‘ It was the first name in creation , some say . ’ |
| 28 | He explained that there never had been a bottle of perfume , but he had made the first call in front of his wife who was now quite happy because she thought her husband had merely left her birthday present behind , not , as he had actually done , completely forgotten her birthday . |
| 29 | By 1942 , when family allowances were debated for the first tune in Parliament , the principle had acquired supporters of most shades of political opinion . |
| 30 | Oh I do n't , I just , I remember that er if you walked down er Road at night you 'd see him with his mortar board on and his curate by his side coming down to post the letters , and then when all these ladies were in Sammy shop one night being entertained by Sammy erm Father and his curate went by , and old Sammy turned round to the audience and said well if dressing up will get him anywhere they 'll be on the first row in heaven . |