Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh det] [verb] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is exactly this kind of function which gives the first three examples their odd effect . |
| 2 | I ca n't see that it matters , for the fact remains that it exemplifies the very finest and most elegant architecture which displays the first burgeoning of the English Renaissance . |
| 3 | In 1849 he had bought a wire-rope business which laid the first permanent transatlantic telegraph cable in 1866 . |
| 4 | It was transport which became the first post-ECSC target . |
| 5 | By 1983 , he was in charge of the Scotland B team and on the way to forging that illustrious partnership with Jim Telfer which brought a second Grand Slam in 1990 even sweeter than the French game which settled the first six years before . |
| 6 | The research builds on an earlier SSRC funded project which produced the first detailed anthropological study of an industrial town in the Scottish lowlands . |