Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun sg] [verb] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Morgan , and one a German , Georg Siemens — put together the French theory of entrepreneurial banking and the English theory of commercial banking to create the first successful modern banks , J.P . |
| 2 | In 1930 the Royal College of Public Health started the first family-planning courses for physicians . |
| 3 | The Boer War brought the first murmurs of coalitionism , a sense of national crisis brought the first attempt to form a coalition , and the advent of the First World War made it a practical possibility . |
| 4 | My theory of tragic myth provides the first acceptable explanation of the chorus of Greek tragedy . |
| 5 | They are badly needed : as Green has said , ‘ It would be easy for clinical research to become the first and indeed the greatest casualty of reductions in size in London . ’ |
| 6 | But the conquest of the 400ers brought a new age , with fresh eyes hungrily seeking steeper rock and ice that demanded a willingness to take a quantum leap in technical difficulty to achieve a first . |
| 7 | Not a ripple of turbulence disturbed the climb to 5000 ft where a slow orbit brought a stunning panorama of Cumbrian mountains rising like whales from a misty sea , the Galloway , Pennine and Howgill hills all etched in fine outline catching the first sun . |
| 8 | However , Saturday 's setback at Celtic Park marked the first time in a year Goram had been in a losing Rangers team ( he was injured when Dundee won at Dens Park in August ) , and the assured nature of his performances at domestic , European and international level have helped gather an army of voters who could make the goalkeeper the first since Hamish McAlpine ( in 1985 ) to win the Scottish Football Writers ' Association Player of the Year award . |