Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [vb past] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other Senate seat up for election went for the first time to the PAN , which won 17.7 per cent of the vote and secured 92 seats in the Chamber of Deputies . |
| 2 | Their discovery helped overthrow the medieval concept of the Solar System and a few decades later , by a method that I shall not describe , observations of Io led to the first determination of the speed of light , which until then was thought by many philosophers to be infinite . |
| 3 | The first stage of Felix lased for the first time in August 1991 , and the second stage will be operational this summer . |
| 4 | While in Cartagena , Colombia , on Dec. 2-3 for the " Group of Rio " summit [ see p. 38675 ] , President Fujimori of Peru and President Borja of Ecuador met for the first time to discuss their longstanding border dispute [ see p. 38526 ] . |
| 5 | Mauritania , still in dispute with Senegal , was not represented by its head of state , and there was no delegation from Nigeria , which had been represented in Casablanca in December 1988 [ p. 36717 ] ; however , President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda attended for the first time . |
| 6 | ( The Pentateuch or the Torah is the Law of Moses found in the first five books of the Old Testament . ) |
| 7 | The advantages of form disappeared in the first quarter of the fourth century , when Constantine abolished the formal requirements of the civil law . |
| 8 | The Yugoslavian authorities announced on Feb. 20 that Army units stationed in the province of Kosovo had for the first time been given specific orders to quell a renewed wave of unrest among ethnic Albanians in the province . |
| 9 | Episodes of intestinal obstruction usually occurred in the first year of operation but in seven patients admission to hospital with obstruction occurred after the first 12 months . |
| 10 | The Central Statistical Office said outstanding credit in February rose for the first time in six months . |
| 11 | Although a fall in numbers occurred in the first year after charges were introduced , that was largely due to the building works , but the figures have increased and Welsh men are looking forward enormously to the addition to their national museum . |
| 12 | In every case a noticeable increase in measurement occurred between the first and second measurement of each pot . |
| 13 | His rise to prominence came during the first Dutch war ( 1652–4 ) . |
| 14 | Pressure on sterling continued into the first quarter of 1990 as inflation and interest rates increased , and on March 19 sterling hit a record low against the West German mark at DM2.71 . |
| 15 | But also by 1967 , expenditure on education had for the first time in history equalled that on defence . |
| 16 | One such was that at Charfield built during the first half of the 19th century . |