Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] the first [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The civil servants who drafted the first version of the Bill , the Green Book , were not united on any issue but the simple one that there needed to be reform at all . |
| 2 | De Maizière was replaced as deputy leader on Sept. 23 by Angela Merkel , the ( East German ) Minister for Women and Youth Affairs in the federal government , who became the first woman in the CDU leadership . |
| 3 | Peter Reid , the Manchester City manager , yesterday tried to take some of the heat out of the aftermath of the derby by defending Pointon , who became the first player to be sent off in this series of fixtures since 1974 . |
| 4 | ( Islip , Long Island in the U.S. , was founded by the son of a Northamptonshire emigrant who became the first mayor of New York City in 1671 . ) |
| 5 | Draper was an English scientist who became the first president of the American Chemical Society . |
| 6 | Thanks to Vo Quy — who led the first team of Vietnamese scientists south of the seventeenth parallel to investigate the environmental damage caused during the US/Vietnam war — almost every student in Vietnam plants one to three trees per year as part of the school curriculum . |
| 7 | It was Geoff Yeadon and Oliver Statham who made the first connection in the jigsaw , 12 years ago . |
| 8 | That lost cause was started in 1861 by Citadel cadets who fired the first shots at Fort Sumter , outside Charleston . |
| 9 | My father , who spent the first quarter of a century in Chile , was awarded the Order of Merit . |
| 10 | From videofilms shown to reporters in Saudi Arabia , and the reports of the few journalists who spent the first days of the war in Baghdad , other successful hits can be independently verified . |
| 11 | Cathy Gerring , who pocketed the first prize of £500,000 in the recent World Championship of Women 's Golf at the exquisite Urban Cely course near Paris , is a golfer apart , a player who sparkles with or without her clubs . |
| 12 | A SMALL point on your book review of Durham : Birth of a First-Class County : had Ralph Dellor consulted the club or been at the match , he would have noted that it was Paul Parker who took the first ball from Oxford University pace bowler Michael Jeh , and not John Glendenen . |
| 13 | Your conductors ' competitions brought on some new talent , beginning with the Finnish conductor Okko Kamu , who won the first competition in 1969 ; and you 've been a great help to most of the new generation of top conductors — Abbado , Ozawa , and so on . |
| 14 | Dutchman Marcel Albers , who won the first race at Donington , compatriot Oswaldo Negri and Belgian Mikke Van Hool were all slightly quicker in testing during the week so de Ferran will need to be at peak to clinch top spot , as he twice did for Edenbridge Racing last year . |
| 15 | In both Tests , two or three Englishmen looked well set , but failed to convert good innings into substantial ones , unlike India who won the first Test through Azharuddin 's great innings of 182 and laid the foundation for the Madras victory with Tendulkar 's 165 and Sidhu 's 106 . |
| 16 | Congratulations to The Mighty Fall , who won the first heat of the Cool FM/Kit Kat ‘ Make The Break ’ competition in the Limelight recently . |
| 17 | However , his main opponent , Mohamed Taki , who won the first round of the presidential election , continued to accuse Djohar of vote-rigging and was linked to an alleged attempt to overthrow the government discovered in August [ see below ] . |
| 18 | Pliny described it as being of use , if scattered in a pool , for curing unhealthy fish ; it was said to have been grown in the Emperor Charlemagne 's herb garden ; Ion the Gardener who wrote the first book about gardening in Britain included it as his favourite herb , and it was mentioned in Langland 's famous poem Piers Plowman . |
| 19 | Mr Scott Morgan gives a generous tribute to the work of Edward Griffith , who wrote the first book on the BCR , and explains that this new work does not replace the earlier one , but compliments it . |
| 20 | Titled the Leopoldo Cicognara Conference , it is named after the eary nineteenth-century Venetian ( d. 1834 ) who compiled the first bibliography of art-historical literature . |
| 21 | The Wainwright walk was made famous by the author of the same name who pioneered the first coast to coast walk in 1972 . |
| 22 | County captain Tim Robinson — who missed the first month of the season after breaking his left thumb — has taken over temporarily . |