Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | News from France is that recent Peak immigrant Felicity Butler has just made the first British female ascent of an F7c . |
| 2 | Berkeley has now become the first nuclear power station in Britain to have all its spent fuel removed . |
| 3 | We are struggling tonight to achieve the first tentative step in Britain 's planning , not for two or three years hence , but for the better part of a decade hence , and to achieve at King 's Cross the equivalent of what has been under construction for several years at Lille . |
| 4 | As you can imagine , I did n't do much sleeping the first two or three nights I was there . |
| 5 | IMAGINE correctly predicting the first four horses in the Derby , and then not winning a penny . |
| 6 | THE South African government , the African National Congress and its rival , the Inkatha Freedom Party , agreed yesterday to hold the first multi-party talks since all-race democracy negotiations broke down last May . |
| 7 | This construct therefore lacked the first three hypersensitive sites ( HS1 , HS2 and HS3 ) but contained all the downstream HS sites . |
| 8 | The story of how ministers did so provides the first substantial evidence about how John Major 's government is functioning behind closed doors . |
| 9 | She remain uncertain still what was to be done with it , though she consoled herself with the thought that in entering the court of Le Grand Jeu and submitting to its verdict , she had already taken the first tentative steps . |
| 10 | It was reported on Feb. 5 that a Thai mining company had recently become the first foreign company to be awarded an offshore tin-prospecting concession in Myanma . |
| 11 | US scientists have successfully produced the first gene-altered wheat , opening up the possibility of the development of high-protein strains and ones resistant to drought and disease . |
| 12 | IN December , 1943 , the men working feverishly to create the first American atomic bomb sent a team of ‘ spooks ’ to Naples . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , while quangos have clearly survived the first two Thatcher administrations , a precise head count is less easy than official figures might suggest . |