Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun sg] [verb] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Poet , artist , calligrapher and connoisseur , Tung Ch'i-ch'ang devised the first systematic history and theory of Chinese art , dividing the old masters between the decorative Northern and the meditative Southern schools . |
| 2 | A new study by Peter Bryant and Lynette Bradley at Oxford University provides the first good evidence that the ability to analyse a word into its constituent sounds is most important in the early stages of learning to read ( Nature , vol 301. p 419 ) . |
| 3 | Rumours of impending action in Algiers filtered back to him , and on 11 May the editor of a leading Algiers newspaper published the first public appeal for his return . |
| 4 | AN INCREASING demand for hypo-allergenic dairy products has led a Tayside woman to take the first tentative steps towards setting up what it is thought would be Britain 's only mare milking unit . |
| 5 | In 1934/35 , Frank Fraser Darling made the first intensive study of deer , and his book A Herd of Red Deer is still a valuable source book . |