Example sentences of "a first [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well unfortunately we were scheduled to have a meeting erm something like ten days ago and then two or three of the key people had to drop out so I cancelled the meeting because obviously we want the people there who were going to actually get the thing up and running so that we can formulate a first public meeting and I would like erm , you know , now , to establish a working party but again a number of the people who one would expect to be on it are not here and it 's slightly awkward . |
| 2 | Mindful of their situation they began well , forcing a first minute corner and pressing strongly . |
| 3 | If possible it 's well worth getting to know local journalists on a first name basis and to establish trust and confidence in each other . |
| 4 | To be an international athlete , a top flight boxer or a first division footballer is to have access to a range of resources not available to the majority of the population . |
| 5 | Fashanu was a First Division striker and household name around Norwich at the age of eighteen , when he was prone to giving statements to the Press about making himself ‘ a big person ’ . |
| 6 | On top of that , scoring the third in the 3–1 win over the Sky Blues made him the youngest scorer of a First Division goal . |
| 7 | They 'll be could be a first division team next season . |
| 8 | See West Brom , really a first division team . |
| 9 | Allegations have been made by players from Valenciennes that they were offered bribes to let European and national champions Marseille win a first division match on May 20 . |
| 10 | The only other midweek game is a First Division match on Wednesday between Meadowbank and Clydebank . |
| 11 | Miles , Bell and Gregory may be getting older , but there is not a First Division club who would not move in if they became available . ’ |
| 12 | The immediate aftermath was relegation , with the lowest number of points ( 18 ) and goals ( 26 ) ever recorded by a First Division club . |
| 13 | Football mythology includes the unlikely tale of a First Division club laundering cash from the Great Train Robbery through its turnstiles back in the 1960s . |
| 14 | A First Division club — possibly Wakefield Trinity — has made him a tempting offer and Roberts , who played for Wigan in 1987 , is keen to accept . |
| 15 | Former Hull boss Brian Smith has had a mystery offer to return to England with a First Division club next year . |
| 16 | OLDHAM Athletic , who had never beaten a First Division side since they dropped into the Second Division in 1923 , made up for 66 years of not altogether patient waiting with a pulsating victory over the League champions Arsenal at Boundary Park last night . |
| 17 | OLDHAM Athletic , who had not beaten a First Division side since they dropped into the Second Division in 1923 , made up for 66 years of not altogether patient waiting with a pulsating victory over the League champions Arsenal at Boundary Park last night . |
| 18 | They have come through five rounds already , enough to take a First Division side to Wembley . |
| 19 | They have come through five rounds already , enough to take a First Division side to Wembley . |
| 20 | Town had their chances against Barnsley , but their finishing looked somewhat second rate for a first division side pushing for a premier league place . |
| 21 | ‘ It is not easy to give a two-goal lead away to a First Division side and then show the character to come back and win the game . |
| 22 | Hillier , who guided Langley from being perennial re-election candidates to a first division side in only two seasons , announced his decision to quit after yesterday 's 2–1 win Gretna . |
| 23 | The might of Gloucester beaten by bottom of the table , West Hartlepool , who 'd never won a first division game before . |
| 24 | The late arrival by 13 minutes of three of their key players left Peterlee with too much work to do at Consett where they went down in a first division game by 91 points to 58 as they were left wondering what effect Ivor James , Gord Laing and Allen Quarmby might have had had they been there for the start . |
| 25 | Guisborough take on Northallerton in a First Division game , while Second Division promotion chasers Durham tackle Shotton. — BLYTH and Northallerton are the latest clubs to inform the Northern League that they will take promotion at the end of the season if it comes their way . |
| 26 | Sadly the ex England Captain is n't fit enough to take up the offer of a first division runabout before the Japanese season gets underway . |
| 27 | Sadly the ex England Captain is n't fit enough to take up the offer of a first division runabout before the Japanese season gets underway . |
| 28 | However , more recently , in Eurocopy plc v Teasdale , reported in the journal PLC in November 1991 , the Court of Appeal upheld a first instance decision , and dismissed an application to strike out a defence , that in connection with a sale and purchase agreement , the actual knowledge of the purchaser might still be a defence to a claim for breach of warranty notwithstanding a clause in the sale and purchase agreement which provided that no actual or constructive knowledge on the part of the purchaser would prejudice a claim . |
| 29 | Accordingly , a first instance decision will only be reversed on appeal if it proceeded on some erroneous principle or was plainly and obviously wrong . |
| 30 | It would , in my opinion , in many ways be more logical for an application to be released from custody on the ground of non-service or delayed service of a committal notice to be made to a first instance judge rather than direct to this court . |