Example sentences of "[noun prp] [pron] [vb past] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Freud who made the first extensive use of hypnosis to probe the depths of the subconscious mind . |
| 2 | Consider the case of Abdellatif Sbili who led the first Moroccan nationalist campaign against the French in 1930 : |
| 3 | BELOW The great 19th-century scientist Friedrich Wohler who prepared the first organic compound derived from inorganic chemicals . |
| 4 | It seems to have been Moscow 's need to counter a challenge from Beijing which prompted the next Soviet commitment to Cuba . |
| 5 | It was the German King Sigismund who summoned the 16th Ecumenical Council , though invitations were later also sent by Pope John XXIII . |
| 6 | That Sunday she took the first positive step towards keeping a check on her child . |
| 7 | It was James Watt who made the first major improvements to the principles worked out by Newcomen . |
| 8 | Other Scout and Guide movements were established at Leicester , Newcastle-upon-Tyne , Liverpool , Coventry and in Glasgow which produced the first deaf Senior Scout in George Scott who took part in a Grand Rally of Senior Scouts at Ibrox Park which was inspected by the Duke of Windsor in 1931 . |
| 9 | Menshevik and SR sympathizers dominated the soldiers ' committees ; among the peasantry the SRs enjoyed far more support than any other party ; the Mensheviks were most prominent in the trade unions ; together the two parties won large majorities in municipal duma elections which began in May ; and in June they dominated the First All-Russian Congress of Soviets and consolidated control of its Central Executive Committee ( CEC ) . |