Example sentences of "[prep] [num] he [vb past] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1891 he gained the first Whitworth exhibition awarded to a member of the Horwich Mechanics ' Institute . |
| 2 | Sheltering abroad , in 1558 he wrote The First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Woman — the ‘ regiment ’ actually meaning a regimen or government by women , which he condemned as ‘ a thing most contrarious ’ to God 's ‘ revealed will and approved ordinance ’ . |
| 3 | Before he was 19 , Gauss had constructed , by straightedge and compass , a regular 17-gon , the first " new " constructible regular polygon for 2000 years , and in 1799 he gave the first satisfactory proof ( where Newton , Euler and Lagrange had failed ) of the fundamental theorem of algebra ( 4.8.1 ) . |
| 4 | In 1933 he made the first crossing of the uninhabited interior wilderness of Iceland with a wheeled vehicle — his bicycle . |
| 5 | Cooke 's interest in fungi began while he was teaching , and in 1862 he published the first popular book on toadstools , A Plain and Easy Account of British Fungi . |
| 6 | In 1859 he built the first of his 2–2–2 type express locomotives , two of which took part in the railway ‘ race ’ between east- and west-coast companies from London to Edinburgh in 1888 , and in 1863 he developed the 2–4–0 type for use over more heavily graded routes . |
| 7 | In 1870 he gave the first authentic account of amoebae from the human intestine . |
| 8 | As a director of Routledge , he took an interest in what I was writing , and in 1946 he commissioned the first book I was to produce on philosophy , The Approach to Metaphysics . |
| 9 | In 1981 he launched the first of a series of closely watched consumer surveys . |
| 10 | In 1973 he became the first person to be Knighted for his contribution to conservation . |
| 11 | In 1855 he built the first section of the Llanidloes- Newton line , and later extended his operations all over Wales . |
| 12 | In 1852 he became the first Moderator of the new Presbytery of Otago Province and in 1869 the first Chancellor of the University of Otago . |
| 13 | His family had regularly provided MPs for the adjacent borough of Plympton Erle since 1437 ; but in 1597 he became the first to represent the county . |
| 14 | In 1890 he published the first of his two major textbooks , Theory of Light , followed by Theory of Heat in 1894 . |
| 15 | In 1854 he became the first official photographer to the British Museum , and received several commissions to photograph for Queen Victoria and Prince Albert . |
| 16 | In 1868 he founded the first lodge in England , ‘ Columbia ’ lodge no. 1 . |
| 17 | In 1956 he became the first consultant neurologist to the RVI , establishing a department which achieved an international reputation . |
| 18 | He broke new ground in musical humour when in 1956 he organized the first of a series of concerts of symphonic caricature at which new music , some of it by respected composers like Malcolm Arnold , was played on ludicrous instruments or to the accompaniment of vacuum cleaners or road rammers . |
| 19 | In 1944 he produced the first fixed-odds football coupon , and set up a separate football company in 1944 . |
| 20 | In 1910 he took the first division examination for the Civil Service and secured a place in the Home Office , which he joined in 1911 . |