Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] the first [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After moving to Willesden in north-west London he became the scourge of local boxers and eventually became the first black man to hold a British title when , in 1907 , he beat Curly Watson in the fourth of a scheduled twenty rounds to take the welterweight championship at the ‘ Wonderland ’ venue in the East End of London . |
| 2 | Carol Moseley Braun won in Illinois and thereby became the first black woman , and only the second black person , to serve in the Senate . |
| 3 | Harue Kitamura was elected mayor of Ashiya , in the southern prefecture of Hyogo , thereby becoming the first Japanese woman to hold such a post . |
| 4 | Few of them were old enough to remember the first Great Famine of the 1840s , when Father Cavanagh had worked tirelessly to help the starving . |
| 5 | Anglicans and Protestants now not only heard the first systematic teaching on the word of God in the Church ever formulated by a Catholic Council ( for Trent had only dealt with particular points at issue with the Reformers ) , but also admired it . |
| 6 | United Microelectronics Corporation will apparently produce the first commercial version of the thing using a 0.6-micron CMOS process trying for a 50MHz , 39 MIPS part in the second half of the year . |
| 7 | The story of how ministers did so provides the first substantial evidence about how John Major 's government is functioning behind closed doors . |
| 8 | He did so successfully in 1948 , outpointing Vince Hawkins at Birmingham and thus becoming the first black champion to be recognized by the BBBC . |
| 9 | Our results thus provide the first direct evidence that tamoxifen does not have antioestrogenic effects on bone in postmenopausal women and indicate a possible oestrogenic effect . |
| 10 | How much will he spend to bail out the first-wave trusts so that they do not end the first financial year in deficit ? |
| 11 | ‘ He just said the first impertinent thing that came into his head . |
| 12 | No sooner had the first Labour ad appeared on a Darlington Transport Company vehicle than Coun. Peter Jones , one-time chairman of the borough transport committee , warned of dire consequences . |
| 13 | We are struggling tonight to achieve the first tentative step in Britain 's planning , not for two or three years hence , but for the better part of a decade hence , and to achieve at King 's Cross the equivalent of what has been under construction for several years at Lille . |
| 14 | US scientists have successfully produced the first gene-altered wheat , opening up the possibility of the development of high-protein strains and ones resistant to drought and disease . |
| 15 | HOCKEY star Steve Martin yesterday became the first British player sent off in Olympic Games history . |
| 16 | SOUTH Africa 's State President , Mr FW de Klerk , yesterday suffered the first serious blow to his reputation as the great reformer by appearing to acquiesce in a cover-up of political murders carried out by state agencies , including the police . |
| 17 | FLANKED by guards , model Lindsay yesterday gave the first public display of the world 's most expensive jeans , £100,000 diamond-studded denims . |
| 18 | For example Bowling Festival Week in Eirias Park usually held the first full week in August offer £2,000 in prize-money . |
| 19 | The main political event of the year to June 1991 was the general election in March , in which the opposition KESK gained the largest number of seats ( 55 out of 200 ) and went on to form the first Finnish government in 25 years which did not include a left-wing party . |
| 20 | At the same time he also became the first known clerk of Parliament and thus was responsible for beginning the compilation of the rolls of Parliament . |
| 21 | Lyric Fantasy , brilliant winner of the Queen Mary Stakes at Royal Ascot in June , later became the first two-year-old filly to win the all-aged Nunthorpe Stakes . |
| 22 | Athletics , to a more limited extent , commanded some attention , beginning in the late nineteenth century with Arthur Wharton who later became the first black footballer to play league soccer . |
| 23 | Other countries soon welcomed the breed , including several in South America and southern Africa , and it later became the first foreign breed to be imported by Japan . |
| 24 | He was also to obtain the first formal recognition from the pope of the right of the crown to nominate holders of major benefices , before the kings of either France or Spain ; and he indulged grandiose dreams of annexing continental territories . |
| 25 | Earlier , in May 1939 , No 602 ( City of Glasgow ) Squadron received its first spitfire , also becoming the first Auxiliary Unit in Britain to be equipped with the new 1000 H.P. 8-gun interceptors . |
| 26 | THE vote that gave the Democrats the White House and is expected to give them their tightest grip on Congress in decades also saw the first black woman elected to the Senate . |
| 27 | At Haringey it needed the direct intervention of council leader Bernie Grant , later to become the first black MP for Tottenham , to change the policy of leaving all investment decisions to the advisers . |
| 28 | Hutton , later to become the first professional captain of England and knighted in 1956 , joined the ranks of those who had to embody the hopes and expectations of an England creaking under the weight of its industrial and imperial past , but whose sense of destiny was still quite strong . |
| 29 | British Telecommunications Plc is now implementing the first Metropolitan Area Network in the UK . |
| 30 | Berkeley has now become the first nuclear power station in Britain to have all its spent fuel removed . |