Example sentences of "the first [noun sg] [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 | We announced only last week the first farmer co-operative with five farms seeking to develop a market . |
| 3 | The F-Plan is the first slimming diet which enables you to follow this formula . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Chris Forrest on the first winter ascent of Mariella , Coire an t-Sneachda : one of this season 's new routes ( photo Graeme Ettle ) . |
| 6 | And Henshaw was to become the first money man of the underground . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | President Ramaswamy Venkataraman paid the first state visit to China by an Indian President on May 18-23 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | On the first day Islam Karimov , the first secretary of the Uzbek CP , was elected President of the Supreme Soviet by secret ballot . |
| 16 | A pleasure steamer has made the first day trip down the Severn to the Devon coast for almost a century . |
| 17 | The first day attendance of 35,051 continued the downward trend at major meetings . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The first day Shanti was with us he did not come home from school till very late . |
| 21 | ‘ But yer always the first man aht , ’ pointed out the Old Stager agreeably . |
| 22 | Erm so federalism is a fairly important principle in American government and that principle , essentially , is , and most of you I hope will have done the first year course politics and policy making where I talked about federalism in general terms that federalism is based upon the notions that in the same territory you can have more than one government and that those governments er are of equal status . |
| 23 | Most educational institutions fulfil this need , and many view intensive language programs [ extra curricular to the first year degree courses ] as the most appropriate medium to do this . |
| 24 | In his Autumn Statement ( p 124 ) , the Chancellor of the Exchequer raised the first year capital allowance for plant and machinery ( excluding cars ) to 40% for 12 months from 1 November 1992 and introduced an initial allowance of 20% for industrial and agricultural buildings where contracts are placed before 31 October 1993 and they are brought into use before the end of 1994 . |
| 25 | The first year capital allowance for investment in plant and machinery ( excluding cars ) is raised to 40% ( v 25% ) for a period of 12 months from 1 November 1992 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The design of the first year curriculum included mainly a problem based approach , but one course retained a traditional lecture based format . |
| 28 | The work mostly took place in the first year base , which was described as : " a large hall and four small rooms each capable of taking a group of twenty . |
| 29 | The first year History course provides pupils with an introduction to the knowledge and skills necessary for a balanced understanding of the emergence of early modern societies , a knowledge of continuity and change in Medieval Europe and an awareness of the heritage which has contributed to the world in which pupils grow up . |
| 30 | What kind of people d' you think I the first year psychology students they 've been given some sexual orientation ? |