Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [noun] [vb past] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1798 Breitkopf & Härtel launched the first ‘ collected edition ’ of Mozart 's works , and the first biography ( Niemetschek 's Life of Kapellmeister Wolfgang Gottlieb Mo–art written from Original Sources ) appeared in Prague . |
| 2 | The six UK inspectors and one each from Azerbaijan , Hungary and Ukraine formed the first international team from the UK . |
| 3 | In November 1990 , a man convicted of multiple rape and murder became the first person in Tunisia to be executed since the President came to power in 1987 . |
| 4 | Their senior branch of railway promoters and philanthropists produced the first Quaker MP Joseph Pease as well as marrying back into the Gurneys . |
| 5 | He then made two transfer requests and Wilkinson seized the first opportunity he could to unload the controversial star . |
| 6 | In Germany the large shift in Jewish identity came in the eighteenth and especially the nineteenth centuries as no longer Yiddish but German became the first language for most Jews . |
| 7 | Between them , Whitaker and Coburn devised the first episode 's opening in an English school . |
| 8 | Nakabayashi and coworkers reported the first system based on methyl methacrylate , with tributyl borane as initiator and 4-META as bonding comonomer . |
| 9 | Wilson himself had the satisfaction of securing a permanent Joint Conference for the future settlement of wages at Hull and Goole and Tupper obtained the first negotiated settlement at Aberdeen . |
| 10 | In Johnson 's report , the education offered by the city takes precedence over any popular descriptions or concerns , beginning with an interest in the fact that Hector Boece or Boethius became the first President of the King 's College , in 1494 , at the instigation of Bishop William Elphinstone , effectively the founder of Aberdeen University — whose tomb may still be seen . |
| 11 | Tanturi and Ivy provided the first convincing evidence for the choleretic action of the vagus by showing that stimulation of the distal end of the divided vagus caused increased secretion of bile . |
| 12 | In 1923 , Jehu and Craig produced the first detailed account of the geology of this region , and followed it up with further accounts between 1925 and 1934 . |
| 13 | He played for Shropshire and Herefordshire boys and was in the same team as Sandy Lyle ; many years later they met in the final of the 1987 Suntory World Matchplay Championship and Woosnam became the first British winner . |
| 14 | It was not until 1903 that the famous rope of Ravanel , Giraud and Comte completed the first grand traverse of the Drus in the opposite direction . |
| 15 | The 1750s marked an important transition , as works by such men as Duncombe and Ballard celebrated the achievements of women writers , and Colman and Thornton published the first edition of Poems by Eminent Ladies . |
| 16 | In 1964 Norah and Jean started the first Surrey regional training course . |
| 17 | While he was away being x-rayed , Crowe and Rutherford raised the first half-century stand of the match within 80 minutes , scoring faster than in the earlier stages of the game . |