Example sentences of "[art] first [verb] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two armies met at Sagrajas and the first to engage with the Christians were Motamid 's own native Spanish Moslems . |
| 2 | However , Foley 's mill was probably the first erected in the midlands , and may have been of a new design . |
| 3 | The first depends on the views I have already expressed . |
| 4 | Mina was the first to leave for the fields . |
| 5 | By the middle of the thirteenth-century Milan 's ruling commune had lost its power , and the city had become one of the first to fall to the signori , the city lords . |
| 6 | The government was the first to do without an incomes policy , and the absence of ‘ norms ’ or ‘ targets ’ for incomes in nearly twenty years helped to take the issue of wages out of politics . |
| 7 | James Hansen of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York , one of the first to warn of the dangers of global warming , agrees that most of the warming has been at night but expects warming factors eventually to overtake cooling factors , leading to significant rises in daytime temperatures . |
| 8 | The nucleus of the first consists of the preludes on chorales associated with the Lutheran mass ( Kyrie and Gloria ) and the larger ( pedaliter ) catechism preludes . |
| 9 | Oxford 's Lord Mayor , Queenie Warley will travel through time to meet Queen Elizabeth the First accompanied by the dancers and musicians . |