Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [art] first [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only after he had set to work , at Halley 's urging , on the tract that eventually became the first book of the Principia did Newton abandon vortices and envisage attractive — and repulsive — forces in central bodies . |
| 2 | Spreadbury , on his first trip to the Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Bank-sponsored tournament , was the subject of an official protest after he inadvertently allowed the first half of a quarter-final match to overrun by 1½ minutes — a long way beyond the regulation seven minutes . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , Tom McKean was relieved to avoid one of his familiar acts of self-destruction as he successfully negotiated the first hurdle of his quest for gold in the 800m . |
| 4 | Thérèse no longer shared the first job of the day with her cousin . |
| 5 | Yesterday saw the first meeting of North Essex Health Authority , which replaces the consortium made up of the old north east , mid and west Essex district health authorities . |
| 6 | SIX mums and their 18 babies yesterday attended the first meeting of a help group set up in Nottingham for mothers of triplets . |
| 7 | The Iron Age also produced the first evidence of polled cattle in Britain . |
| 8 | In 1963 ( I believe ) was appointed Director of the Communication research Centre , and soon after became the first Professor of Linguistics at U.C.L. ( as I soon came to know him ) was a charismatic teacher and delightfully friendly person , and I benefitted greatly from close contact with him in 1963–4 , when he was Director of the Communication Research Centre , and I was Assistant Director . |
| 9 | After William Morris 's death in 1896 , Benson also became the first chairman of William Morris & Co . |
| 10 | Following this I also heard the first performance of the Serenade with Peter and Dennis Brain at the Wigmore Hall in October 1943 . |
| 11 | But their most famous victory , over the black Conservative John Taylor in Cheltenham , was clouded by suggestions of racism , and as our Political Editor Peter Hayes reports it was racism that also overshadowed the first day of the conference . |
| 12 | On 8 January 1959 he was officially inaugurated and two days later formed the first government of the new republic , headed by Michel Debré . |
| 13 | The 30 September also saw the first session of a specially created presidential Commission for Restitution . |
| 14 | Brighton also saw the first appearance of the latest new range from Lyles called Heather Mist . |
| 15 | During this period he also wrote the first act of the ‘ sacred Singspiel ’ Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots ( 9 ) the remaining acts being written by Michael Haydn ( l737–l806 then Konzertmeister to the Archbishop of Salzburg ) and Anton Adlgasser ( 1729–1777 , court and cathedral organist in Salzburg ) . |
| 16 | Certainly Hobhouse can be taken as a representative figure since , in addition to being a leading light of New Liberalism , he also held the first Chair of Sociology to be established in Britain — at the London School of Economics , which was founded by the Webbs . |
| 17 | Last year the Yorkshire Water Authority tentatively began the first stage of a £150 million programme to eliminate the worst coloured waters from such towns as Huddersfield , Halifax , Bradford and Sheffield . |
| 18 | The gliadin challenge described here represented the first phase of the diagnostic gluten challenge adopted by the European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition ( ESPGAN ) . |
| 19 | By doing so , we effectively answered the first part of the question of principle raised by the appeal , and decided that the court has the power in its inherent jurisdiction to override W. 's refusal to undergo the necessary treatment . |
| 20 | He then drew the first furrow of the stetch himself . |
| 21 | ‘ He took me to his hotel for dinner then spent the first half of the evening trying to get me drunk and the second half trying to get me upstairs . ’ |
| 22 | We watched that for a bit , then took the first tube of the day round to a friend 's place for a while . |
| 23 | Here too occurred the first mention of the beneficial effects of what he called ‘ active melancholy ’ . |