Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [vb pp] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier , Malcolm Pyrah had won the first Olympic Talent Spotters Championship on It 's Me and , though he does not believe the small seven-year-old chestnut is potential Olympic material , he echoed the widespread praise for this new series of competitions . |
| 2 | By August 5 the cable had been laid , and Thomson had sent the first two messages over it . |
| 3 | It was the first time since 1921 that England had lost the first three Tests of a home rubber . |
| 4 | Sir John Cockroft , the Director of Harwell , had won a Nobel Prize for his 1932 work where , with the prototype high energy nuclear accelerator , he and Ernest Walton had made the first artificial disintegration , or fission , of atomic nuclei . |
| 5 | The BBC had missed the first international wicket of the season , in preference to a weather report and some local tittle-tattle . |
| 6 | In contesting the run-off , Young had become the first black candidate to progress beyond the primary stage of the electoral process for any state-wide office within the state of Georgia . |
| 7 | Although Newcomen had produced the first practical steam-engine in the early years of the eighteenth century , it was capable only of a simple back-and-forth or up-and-down motion and therefore disappeared under-ground to be used for pumping water out of mines . |
| 8 | In the week before the visit , Keating had become the first Prime Minister to suggest that Australia drop the Union Flag device from its own , further fuelling public debate between republicans and monarchists about Australia 's status . |