Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [verb] [art] first [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His team re-wrote the Turkish record books in the 1991/92 campaign by becoming the first to be undefeated in an entire League programme , joining Trabzonspor and Galatasaray as the only ones to win the championship three seasons running . |
| 2 | In a case where the breach is not " capable of remedy " , there is clearly no point in affording the first of these two opportunities ; the object of the notice procedure is thus simply to give the lessee the opportunity to apply for relief . |
| 3 | There is a problem about investigating the first of these hypotheses in that the dreams that are remembered are presumably the ones that have more logical structure . |
| 4 | Through a series of reforms , most notably the retiring on full pay of some 8,000 officers , Azaña went some way towards achieving the first of these goals . |
| 5 | Emilio Butragueno , who twisted an ankle in earning the first of three penalties , may not be fit for the European Cup first leg in Milan next week . |
| 6 | A student has made education history by becoming the first in the country to pass a new exam . |
| 7 | The young soldier Lev Tolstoy made his literary debut by publishing the first of three Sevastopol " Stories in The Contemporary in June . |
| 8 | Although a recent constitutional amendment protected a new government from a motion of no confidence during the first 18 months of its existence , it appeared unlikely that Wingti 's new government would be strong enough to break the country 's traditional pattern of politics by becoming the first since independence to survive from one general election to the next . |
| 9 | In 1982 , Lloyd identified those needs and filled the vacuum by providing the first of the clubs that the 1990's tennis player — and his family — desired . |