Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [verb] [to-vb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | More thorough stock control completed the changed Southern scene as virtually all EMU units were renumbered to allow the first two digits to match their fleet status . |
| 2 | Informants were asked to circle the first SF element in the passage . |
| 3 | Also , subjects were asked to describe the first meeting with a close friend or partner ; in this case all the persons described in the account were found to be favourable and the account are being made in retrospect . |
| 4 | Late roses tumbled over stone walls , Michaelmas daisies and chrysanthemums provided bright patches of colour , and the trees that surrounded the village were beginning to show the first hint of the glowing autumn colours still to come . |
| 5 | A control group were asked to name the first vegetable they thought of and another group were asked to recite ‘ fifteen times ’ fifteen times and then to name a vegetable . |
| 6 | Despite being outnumbered , unaware of the enemy 's dispositions and ignorant of the terrain , Hamilton was ordered to make the first British landings on 25 April at the southern tip of the peninsula near Cape Helles , while Anzac troops went ashore about 24km/15mls farther up the Aegean coast near Gaba Tepe . |
| 7 | A prospectus was drawn up and students with suitable qualifications were invited to attend the first course in 1977 . |
| 8 | The veteran Shankill councillor was set to become the first outgoing Lord Mayor in Belfast 's history not to be re-elected . |
| 9 | Griffin was fated to become the first ( and still the only ) bowler to achieve a hat-trick in a Lord 's Test and , in the same match , also to become the first man to be called for throwing in a Test in England . |
| 10 | Rules were relaxed to allow the first privately owned locomotives unlimited access to the national rail network . |
| 11 | In one home a somewhat unhappy new resident was allowed to spend the first week after admission dressed in her coat and sleeping in a chair . |
| 12 | This feature was designed to cover the first flights of three Spitfires , during the time of its production that statistic changed to four ! |
| 13 | However , Walker found that if the BFP algorithm was altered to reflect the first three levels of SPAR 's ordering given above , correct results were obtained by eight of the 21 pronouns resolved correctly by Hobbs but incorrectly by the original BFP . |
| 14 | This position was confirmed by the death of Yeats in 1939 , and it was an apt image of succession that Eliot was asked to give the first Yeats memorial lecture at Dublin in June 1940 . |
| 15 | By Spain , Jackie was beginning to feel the first twinges of the ulcer which was to hamper him for some time and keep him out of racing properly — and out of Belgium altogether — until July . |
| 16 | With a six-inch reach advantage and making better use this time of his wicked left jab , Eubank was hoping to become the first to stop Gimenez in 45 fights . |
| 17 | A 450bp SstI-XhoI probe C was used to detect the first intron HS sites 5A and 5B . |
| 18 | Dessie was used to promote the first Sunday meeting at Doncaster last month along with Red Rum . |