Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [noun] [vb past] the 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 | As a result , the Football League proposed a cut in wages and in October Coventry City players became the first to accept a reduction . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |