Example sentences of "the first [noun sg] [noun] " 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 men are now looking forward to Saturday when the first Challenger tanks arrive ; it 's these that 'll play a key role in any ground battles should war become unavoidable . |
| 3 | We announced only last week the first farmer co-operative with five farms seeking to develop a market . |
| 4 | The F-Plan is the first slimming diet which enables you to follow this formula . |
| 5 | During the first session Susie barely spoke at all . |
| 6 | Also at the first session MPRP member Jambyn Gombojav was elected as Hural Chair . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Chris Forrest on the first winter ascent of Mariella , Coire an t-Sneachda : one of this season 's new routes ( photo Graeme Ettle ) . |
| 9 | Sir Henry Lunn ( seated , centre front row ) organized the first winter sports package tour to Chamonix in 1898/9 . |
| 10 | The stately whooper swans fly in from Iceland in late September or October , the timing probably depending on how soon the first winter frosts set in up north . |
| 11 | Intake of the first winter barleys was expected to be ‘ some time this week ’ , at the Woodchurch Farmers Supplies co-op not far from Mr Maylam . |
| 12 | And Henshaw was to become the first money man of the underground . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | President Ramaswamy Venkataraman paid the first state visit to China by an Indian President on May 18-23 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | On the first day Odd-Knut gave me a tobacco tin of worms and told me to keep them warm , and they have travelled the Arctic inside my second layer of clothing ever since , even sharing my sleeping bag at night-time . |
| 22 | On the first day takings were twenty-seven pounds , seventeen shillings and sixpence and for six months many potential customers walked past assuming it was a wholesale showroom . |
| 23 | As the show opened they even enjoyed a beer with the first day crowds . |
| 24 | At the end of the first day Ruth presented herself to Mrs Carson . |
| 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 | The first day Benguiat accused him — Parkinson printed up this sheet as a handout with which the finished examples had the logos that he was exploring in the lectures and one of them was the New York Times magazine , and of course Benguiat had done the original job for the New York Times and the magazine , the other magazine , so he thought that what Parkinson was showing was an example of a redesign , relettering of an existing logo , and perhaps he should n't of said that , you know . |
| 27 | A pleasure steamer has made the first day trip down the Severn to the Devon coast for almost a century . |
| 28 | The first day attendance of 35,051 continued the downward trend at major meetings . |
| 29 | 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 . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |