Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [verb] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With this he struck the first blow , and broke it in striking . ’ |
| 2 | In 1933 he made the first crossing of the uninhabited interior wilderness of Iceland with a wheeled vehicle — his bicycle . |
| 3 | Holroyd Smith was indeed keen to demonstrate the relative success of his new traction system : on June 29th he operated the first test runs in Princess Street , using one of the experimental Manchester cars . |
| 4 | Indeed the authorities became so concerned that in 1935 she became the first cartoon character to be censored . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Early in 1938 two summations of his work were published : Essays Ancient and Modern in March and , a month later , Collected Poems 1909–1935 which included the first publication of " Burnt Norton " . |
| 7 | However those who survive the first year perform at least as well as traditional students and in some cases slightly better . |
| 8 | On the second day of the Workshop those who attended the first meeting will return to participate in activities which will assist in preparing for their own course validation event . |
| 9 | Those who forget the first point fall into the error of being too hard . |
| 10 | In 1928 she became the first person ever to swim the Straits of Gibraltar ( in 12 hrs. 50 min. ) , braving the perils of whirlpools , currents , and sharks . |
| 11 | Er , she 's been at the , well something I did n't know , she 's been at the depot the shortest time of all our indoor , but she 's the first one to get the first day to , percent , , so that 's good . |
| 12 | In 1698 , Martin published ‘ A Late Voyage to St. Kilda , the Remotest of all the Hebrides ’ , and five years later in 1703 there appeared the first edition of ‘ A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland ’ . |
| 13 | In 1973 he became the first person to be Knighted for his contribution to conservation . |
| 14 | In February 1987 it became the first fluoroquinolone to be marketed in the UK under the tradename Ciproxin . |
| 15 | Under the reforms of Josef II , when the Jesuit Order was abolished , the Clementinum became a seminary under the supervision of the archbishop of Prague , and in 1799 it became the first Academy of Fine Arts . |
| 16 | Advocates of press freedom asserted that the Noriega tapes case had set a disturbing precedent in that it undermined the First Amendment by giving legal endorsement to the concept of " prior restraint " in the form of a pre-publication review of a pending news story . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | 13–6–1866 They appointed the first Sabbath in August for the dispensation of the Lord 's Supper and remonstrated with the Kirk Session in Kilmeny who had chosen the same day for their celebration . |
| 19 | In 1855 he built the first section of the Llanidloes- Newton line , and later extended his operations all over Wales . |
| 20 | On page two I think the first thing was , was the erm results of the air conditioning on Wellesey House is still omitted . |
| 21 | In 1938 we began the first School Broadcasts for the province , and I was in charge of production . |
| 22 | In 1956 he became the first consultant neurologist to the RVI , establishing a department which achieved an international reputation . |
| 23 | In 1868 he founded the first lodge in England , ‘ Columbia ’ lodge no. 1 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In 1990 it became the first company to offer on-line access to data from Companies House on all limited companies operating in the UK . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | In Persia , the nationalist movement was anti-European and by 1906 it produced the first Majlis and a liberal constitution . |