Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] the first [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was transport which became the first post-ECSC target . |
| 2 | Had it succeeded , we would have been enriched by those labours which he afterwards devoted to his native country and which laid the first regular foundation for the science of veterinary medicine in Europe . |
| 3 | He built , to his own design , the steamship Robert Fulton , which made the first successful ocean voyage off the east coast of America , sailing from New York to Havana . |
| 4 | Under the terms of the deal , which marked the first direct trading contact between the two Korean states since the Korean War of 1950-53 , the North would supply 30,000 tonnes of anthracite and 11,000 tonnes of cement in exchange for the rice . |
| 5 | Perhaps the most dramatic shift in the pattern of work associated with new technology was that which characterised the first industrial revolution , as thousands moved to the newly forming industrial towns to work in the mills . |