Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb past] to [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Civil Service proceeded to the first comprehensive retirement programme in the 1850s , the justification for imposing the cowardly administrative convenience of an age barrier was how invidious it would have been to attempt any form of assessment . |
| 2 | Two years of basic research led to a first description of Mamprusi court ritual and the system of succession . |
| 3 | The impact of the oil crisis and its associated inflation led to the first actual decline in income for OECD countries for over a quarter of a century . |
| 4 | This ambiguous situation led to the first English clash with Spain . |
| 5 | Plans to expand the Windscale site with a major new development led to the first setpiece confrontation between the burgeoning antinuclear movement and the nuclear industry across the polite tables of a public inquiry . |