Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [verb] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The budget for 1991 allocates the first tranche of the ¥455 trillion ( $3.4 trillion ) that the government has agreed to spend on roads , railways , airports , housing , drains and other public works over the coming decade . |
| 2 | Hendry made a break of 54 to take the first frame , but lost the next to a run of 50 . |
| 3 | For those surviving the first year of life , however , the chances were improving ; death-rate fell from 23 per 1,000 ( living ) in 1841 to 18 per 1,000 in 1901 . |
| 4 | Lady Arran , who in 1980 became the first person to top 100 mph in an offshore power boat , set the world speed record for an electric boat at just over 50 mph . |
| 5 | From this follows the first point : the existence of illegal concert parties is enormously hard to prove . |
| 6 | He was Assistant Head of Religious Broadcasting at the BBC between 1949 and 1956 , and in 1963 became the first Executive Director of the World Association for Christian Broadcasting ( WACB ) , WACC 's predecessor . |
| 7 | HM The Queen visited the site in 1979 to inaugurate the first evaporator . |
| 8 | In 1904 came the first car , and in 1920 Rover hit the headlines when its Light Six saloon raced the Blue Train Continental Express 750 miles across France — and reached Calais 20 minutes ahead of the train . |
| 9 | Campbell was totally influenced by the great Italian architect Palladio and in 1715 published the first volume of Vitruvius Britannicus . |
| 10 | Arthur Eddy , an American critic who in 1914 produced the first book in English on Cubism , Cubists and Post-Impressionism , wrote that ‘ the comparison that Picabia is fondest of making is that of absolute music ’ . |
| 11 | Thomas Telford was as great a canal builder as he was road maker , and in 1818 became the first president of the Institution of Civil Engineers . |
| 12 | , Alexander William Charles Oliphant , Baron Murray of Elibank ( 1870–1920 ) , politician and company director , was born in Folkestone 12 April 1870 , the eldest son in the family of four sons and five daughters of Montolieu Fox Oliphant Murray , later tenth Baron Elibank ( peerage of Scotland ) , who in 1911 became the first Viscount Elibank ( UK peerage ) , and his wife Blanche Alice , daughter of Edward John Scott of Southsea , Hampshire . |
| 13 | A. B. Chalmers of Inverness started out like the shopkeepers in Inveraray with a delivery barrow , graduating to a pony and trap for outlying districts and in 1907 introducing the first steam lorry to the Highlands . |
| 14 | Several members of the Nemanjić dynasty founded monasteries , some became monks , and the pious St Sava , son of Stephen Nemanja , in 1219 became the first archbishop of an autocephalous church , freed from the jurisdiction of the Greek-led archbishopric of Ohrid . |
| 15 | In the case of the Iranians , early in 1982 came the first references to the phenomena of attrition and the ‘ human wave ’ . |
| 16 | There were two daughters of the marriage , the elder , Irene , in 1906 becoming the first woman in London to be arrested in the cause of militant feminism . |
| 17 | However , efforts were well under way in 1990 to address the first problem , with the construction of an airport and a new industrial park . |