Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun prp] [unc] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Tom Mann , who became the ITF 's first president , the organisation came to have an additional aim with which Wilson had little sympathy — that of advancing the cause of international socialism . |
| 2 | It was they who oversaw the Ashleys ' first venture into environmental selling , whereby the country charm and old-world air of the house perfectly complemented the products on sale within . |
| 3 | Between 6 and 12 per cent of South-West England 's electricity could come from renewable sources , according to a study jointly funded by the Department of Trade and Industry and South Western Electricity , which opened the UK 's first wind farm last year . |
| 4 | Wireless pioneers heard the BBC 's first weather forecast in November 1922 . |
| 5 | He was , however , appointed as one of the leaders of the stewards who were to control the DCAC 's first demonstration , which was to be held on 19 October : |
| 6 | When Peter Adamson wrote the NI 's first editorial back in 1973 he would have found it hard to believe that things could get much worse in the field of trade — but they have . |
| 7 | From October 1993 the University will offer the UK 's first undergraduate degree course in Environmental Archaeology . |
| 8 | In October Hull knocked Leeds out of the West Riding Cup and — with an under-strength side — inflicted the Peacocks ' first home defeat of the season . |
| 9 | One , Ilanga Lase Natal , was started in 1906 by Dr John Dube , later to become the ANC 's first president . |
| 10 | Following a visit to Edgar J. Hoover and involvement in a machine-gun shoot-out in Chicago , Sillitoe returned to introduce the UK 's first radio cars to Glasgow . |