Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun prp] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | A similar exchange opened in 1880 in Ipswich , and in 1891 the Borough of Chelsea launched the first municipal exchange . |
| 2 | In 1988 , Andrei Kataev and two other physicists at the Institute of Nuclear Research in Moscow published the first calculation for routes which involve three gluons ( Physics Letters B , vol 212 , p 238 ) . |
| 3 | In 1977 a female student at the University of Missouri became the first patient to be turned from a woman to a man by means of surgery . |
| 4 | Gold EIA went ahead to commission the Centre for Environmental Management and Planning at the University of Aberdeen to undertake the first phase of the EIA , its scoping . |
| 5 | THE Princess of Wales faced the first day of her formal separation with a composure and dignity which never slipped . |
| 6 | UNFORTUNATELY , I was unable to be present at the luncheon at a London hotel on Tuesday when the Duke of Gloucester presented the first English Tourist Board car park awards . |
| 7 | The former British champion from Sunderland took the first step back on the road to championship level by stopping Clarkson with 65 seconds gone of the fifth round . |
| 8 | This lack of English settlement in Aquitaine struck the first British student of Anglo-Gascon history as notable . |
| 9 | The firm of Longman claims the first dust jacket , on Heath 's Keepsake for 1835 . |
| 10 | By the time of the Treaty of Vienna and the Concert of Europe , such a system had become formalized , and the Treaty of Versailles following the First World War brought in many more participants ( and took power to create new States , like Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia ) . |
| 11 | TONIGHT The Royal Geographical Society in Kensington hosts the first in a series of lectures to promote the National Trust of Scotland in the south of England . |
| 12 | The Club and Institute Union was officially formed in London on June 14 , 1862 and a few months later Henry Solly resigned his pulpit at the English Presbyterian Church in Lancaster to become the first fulltime paid secretary of the Union . |
| 13 | That great British trouper , Tommy Steele , now aged 56 , will on Wednesday become the first non-Scandinavian to receive the Hans Christian Andersen Award since it was established by the Hans Christian Andersen Committee three years ago . |
| 14 | Helicopter to Paris to discuss the first Carter Autumn Collection . |
| 15 | Thus the Book of Daniel provides the first intimation of that apocalyptic interpretation of contemporary struggles which was to become an ordinary feature of the later rebellions of the Jews against foreign rule . |
| 16 | Over the years they had worked well and closely together until the political situation in Russia underwent the first dramatic changes . |
| 17 | But because of his private trainer status Sibton Abbey 's win on Saturday marked the first time Murphy 's name had been credited as trainer of a big race winner . |
| 18 | The Saxon forces scored a significant victory and in return Vortigern gave Hengist land in Stamford to build the first Saxon town in Britain . |
| 19 | The Wrexham-based challengers doubled up with an 8–2 triumph at Beaumaris to inflict the first home defeat of the season on their Anglesey hosts . |
| 20 | MIDLAND AIR MUSEUM chose no less an occasion than the SBAC Display at Farnborough to launch the first phase of their aerospace education initiative . |