Example sentences of "[noun] [num ord] [noun sg] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | A HUNGARIAN shot putter last night became the first Paralympic Games competitor to fail a drugs test . |
| 2 | THE novelist VS Naipaul last night became the first winner of Britain 's biggest literary prize , worth £30,000 . |
| 3 | LABOUR LEADERS last night suffered the first setback of the Brighton conference when delegates overwhelmingly rejected pleas for unity by demanding heavy cuts in defence spending . |
| 4 | Hewlett-Packard Co last week launched the first interconnect board under its February agreement with IBM Corp under which the two committed to adapting fibre optic interconnection boards for linking computers to peripherals and computers to computers developed by IBM for the AS/400 and RS/6000 to meet the ANSI Fibre Channel standard . |
| 5 | Somalia is disintegrating into anarchy : Richard Dowden last week became the first outsider to visit the parts of Somalia controlled by anti-government guerrillas . |