Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [noun] [vb past] [art] first " in BNC.

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1 Last week Harvard University Press published the first conspectus of myremecology since 1910 , by Dr Wilson and Dr Bert Holldobler ( a fellow Harvard professor ) .
2 Team captain Murphy grabbed a first half hat-trick and added a fourth 15 minutes from the end to make it a great day for the Derry boys .
3 As a result , the Football League proposed a cut in wages and in October Coventry City players became the first to accept a reduction .
4 In 1931 the Polytechnic Touring Association organized the first air charter holiday , flying twenty-four passengers from Croydon , south of London , in a four-engined Heracles .
5 On 9 January 1991 a 25 year old woman with asymptomatic human immunodeficiency virus infection received a first aerosol of pentamidine isethionate for primary prevention of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia : 300 mg of pentamidine isethionate was dissolved in 10 ml sterile water and inhaled in sitting position , over 15–25 minutes , via an ultrasonic nebuliser .
6 In 1972 the Local Government Act made the first major change in the local government system of England and Wales ( apart from the restructuring in London , which took place in 1963 ) , since the nineteenth century .
7 The Midland Railway Centre are not averse to diesel traction and 10 years ago in 1982 when the railway was first re-opened former Totton favourite Class 4 ‘ Peak ’ Great Gable owned by the Peak Loco Society became the first preserved diesel to be acquired .
8 Further arrests were reported in the ensuing days , and on Dec. 30 the Cairo-based Middle East News Agency reported the first of a series of " intensive " police campaigns against " hotbeds of terrorism and extremism " in other areas of Cairo .
9 In 1956 , too , a Spaniard , albeit an exiled Republican Spaniard , Juan Ramón Jiménez , won the Nobel prize for literature and Spain was the protagonist of another , undoubtedly more popular , cultural event : on 13 June 1956 the Real Madrid football team won the first European Cup championship .
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