Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [verb] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the first time since 1921 that England had lost the first three Tests of a home rubber . |
| 2 | It was in this way that Galle came to make the first sighting of the planet now known as Neptune . |
| 3 | We have not covered the fact that Hillingdon has become the first education authority in the country to have 75% of its secondary schools opted out . |
| 4 | Although Newcomen had produced the first practical steam-engine in the early years of the eighteenth century , it was capable only of a simple back-and-forth or up-and-down motion and therefore disappeared under-ground to be used for pumping water out of mines . |
| 5 | But although Mansell has won the first four races this season , he 's trying not to be over-confident about making it five . |
| 6 | By August 5 the cable had been laid , and Thomson had sent the first two messages over it . |
| 7 | Aston Villa , Everton , Sheffield Wednesday , Sheffield United , West Ham and Millwall have made the first moves to look at one of the largest untapped areas of players in world football . |
| 8 | If DOS fails to match the first word of your input to its list of internal commands , it will start looking on the hard disk for a COM , EXE or BAT file with that name . |
| 9 | This year politics and economics conspired to make the first almost impossible . |
| 10 | Companies as diverse as IBM and Amstrad have reported the first full-year losses in their histories . |
| 11 | By 1909 then , Picasso and Braque had initiated the first phase of Cubism ; the art which both painters were producing was the result of a new freedom which arose from their having discarded all scientific systems and theories . |
| 12 | Houston , Texas-based , Talus Corp and the Electronic & Computer Science Centre ( ESCS ) of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology have released the first Russian programme for NeXt Inc 's NeXtStations . |
| 13 | But Morland having won the first round is confident of surviving … |
| 14 | Margaret Gowing in her official history of the British post-war atomic programme said : ‘ Polonium was a little-known element needed for a vital component of the ( atomic ) bomb … after Harwell had made the first polonium , Windscale assumed production responsibility … |
| 15 | On the other hand , Spurs ' coaching double act of Ray Clemence and Doug Livermore opted for words of wisdom rather than wrath , after Liverpool had dominated the first half . |
| 16 | However , it quickly became clear that the opera would not be ready in time for September , even though Mozart had finished the first act by 22 August . |
| 17 | But Ruddock is history now as Lewis attempts to become the first Briton since Bob Fitzsimmons almost a century ago to land perhaps the most cherished prize in sport . |
| 18 | As Taff started to cook the first half-dozen eggs I went along the road that ran around the village and passed near to the orchard . |
| 19 | You come in when Alice has finished the first bit and then you come . |