Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [vb past] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1904 they opened the first Poor Law farm colony , in Essex , to provide work training for the unemployed . |
| 2 | In 1870 he gave the first authentic account of amoebae from the human intestine . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In 1928 she published the first general history of the women 's suffrage movement , The Cause , and in 1931 Millicent Garrett Fawcett . |
| 5 | By 8.00 I felt the first slight warning tickle . |
| 6 | In the winter of 1970 I attended the second national conference of the Women 's Liberation Movement , held in a grim out-of-season holiday camp at Skegness . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | Near the end of 1982 they achieved the first interesting number of eight fusions per muon , where the energy released exceeds the rest energy of a muon . |
| 9 | Between April 1953 and March 1954 they produced the first five issues , meeting in Layton 's home , occasionally at Rosengarten 's , to discuss The Things That Matter — their latest poetry and material offered by others , not infrequently being led in song by Leonard on his ever-present guitar . |
| 10 | In 1854 he became the first official photographer to the British Museum , and received several commissions to photograph for Queen Victoria and Prince Albert . |