Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun] [to-vb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It came at the end of a pretty miserable week for the Seasiders after their failure to reach the first round of the Cup Winners ' Cup in Cyprus . |
| 2 | SENIOR Tories in Cheltenham were trying yesterday to persuade Mr John Taylor to remain as their prospective parliamentary candidate after his failure to become the first black Tory MP . |
| 3 | Motorola Inc has put Intel Corp on the spot with its decision to price the first iterations of the PowerPC chip at $280 each for the 50MHz 601 and $374 each for the 66MHz 601 in quantities of 20,000 or more , since these are about half the prices Intel had pencilled in for its Pentium chips ( CI No 2,156 ) . |
| 4 | The younger Herschel had travelled to the Cape with his telescope to undertake the first survey of the southern skies with a first-class instrument , and his discoveries of nebulae were already causing a stir in the astronomical community . |
| 5 | Although the Democrats increased their share of the vote , the party 's leader Janine Haines failed in her bid to become the first candidate from a minor party since 1966 to win a seat in the 148-seat House of Representatives . |
| 6 | One or two sentences at your discretion to introduce the first prize winners who will go on to compete in the national finals in London on 16 March 1991 at the Natural History Museum . |