Example sentences of "the first [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first Challenger trimaran ( three hulls ) was produced in 1978 and there are now more than 120 in use throughout the UK . |
| 2 | The first Tay Bridge was completed in 1878 . |
| 3 | The first Tay Bridge showed up the lack of expertise and foresight required for such a structure , no wind tunnels or sophisticated testing were available to the engineers in the late 1870s . |
| 4 | At or before the first directions appointment or hearing , whichever occurs first , the applicant must file at court a statement on Form CHA 72 confirming that a copy of the application has been served on each respondent ( FPCR , r4(7) ; FPR , r4.4(7) ) . |
| 5 | It will inform the recipient of the date , time and place of the first directions appointment or hearing , as appropriate . |
| 6 | In other cases early appointment is clearly desirable so that the guardian can attend the first directions appointment . |
| 7 | The application must be served on all respondents at least seven days before the first directions appointment or hearing . |
| 8 | The application must be served on all respondents at least three days before the first directions appointment or hearing . |
| 9 | The application must be served on all respondents at least seven days before the first directions appointment or hearing . |
| 10 | The application must be served on all respondents at least seven days before the first directions appointment or hearing . |
| 11 | We announced only last week the first farmer co-operative with five farms seeking to develop a market . |
| 12 | The F-Plan is the first slimming diet which enables you to follow this formula . |
| 13 | But if this colt was beaten today , he would certainly not be the first winter favourite for a Classic to flop first time out as a three-year-old . |
| 14 | Chris Forrest on the first winter ascent of Mariella , Coire an t-Sneachda : one of this season 's new routes ( photo Graeme Ettle ) . |
| 15 | . In nineteen forty one on June the first clothes rationing began , and for that year twenty coupons were issued . |
| 16 | And Henshaw was to become the first money man of the underground . |
| 17 | The SPA had handled the flotation of the national travel agency Ibusz , the first state concern to have shares traded at the Hungarian stock exchange which had opened on June 21 . |
| 18 | The Guyana Telecommunications Corporation was the first state company to be sold , 80 per cent of its shares being bought in January 1991 for US$16,500,000 by the Atlantic Telephone Network , a company based in the US Virgin Islands . |
| 19 | The legal arrangements for unification were contained in a second state treaty ( the first state treaty having been that providing for economic and monetary union — see pp. 37466-67 ) . |
| 20 | The award of the first State scholarship , providing access to a university , was celebrated with a day 's holiday for the whole school in the 1930s . |
| 21 | Though the first state action came in 1882 with the Ancient Monuments Act , this was important chiefly because it acknowledged the interest of the state in the preservation of ancient monuments . |
| 22 | President Mitterrand of France on April 18-19 made the first state visit to Romania by a west European head of state since the fall of Ceausescu in December 1989 . |
| 23 | President Ramaswamy Venkataraman paid the first state visit to China by an Indian President on May 18-23 . |
| 24 | Then on the day of issue you address the envelope , stick on the stamps , post it in the First Day Cover posting box , and it will receive a First-Day-of-Issue postmark . |
| 25 | On the first day Islam Karimov , the first secretary of the Uzbek CP , was elected President of the Supreme Soviet by secret ballot . |
| 26 | A pleasure steamer has made the first day trip down the Severn to the Devon coast for almost a century . |
| 27 | The first day attendance of 35,051 continued the downward trend at major meetings . |
| 28 | Edward Pease wrote : ‘ There was considerable stir in Darlington today , this being the first day water was brought into the town from the New Water Works . ’ |
| 29 | The Huddersfield party arrived in Paris in the early morning after a journey of nearly twenty-four hours by train and boat , and spent the first day sightseeing . |
| 30 | The first day Shanti was with us he did not come home from school till very late . |