Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] the first [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only did the First World War produce a major crisis of authority for the old order , but it also resulted in the harnessing by the State , on an unprecedented scale , of the power and resources of the nation towards the war effort . |
| 2 | The Napoleonic Wars brought about a large increase in the government debt and , in the twentieth century , so did the First World War and the Second World War . |
| 3 | They bought a garage at Caterham from Anthony Crook , who still runs the Bristol Car Company , and began by carrying out ‘ all the usual garage things ’ , and soon became the first Lotus agent when the manufacturer began to expand . |
| 4 | Boothroyd thus became the first woman Speaker . |
| 5 | The alternative vision is the one that I subscribe to , and along with me , most historians in this country and in America , and indeed increasingly erm a young generation of German historians , and this is that things began to go wrong well before nineteen fourteen , and that the Germans in fact deliberately started the First World War as the Treaty of Versailles said they did , that nineteen eighteen was not therefore the beginning of the evil , but merely a hiccup in erm a German attempt to conquer Europe , erm as it were , a play with two acts , the first act being nineteen fourteen to eighteen , and then the second act being nineteen thirty-nine to forty-five , two attempts to dominate the continent of Europe by military force . |
| 6 | It also established the first Crofters Commission as a permanent body empowered to fix fair rents and administer crofting legislation . |
| 7 | In 1965 and 1967 Medau was included in the Leeds Festival of Movement and Dance , and 1967 also saw the first Easter Course in Leeds , which for the next decade established the pattern of alternate years in the South and Leeds . |
| 8 | Malcolm Crosby of Sunderland almost became the first caretaker manager to win the FA Cup until Liverpool doused them with reality . |
| 9 | Then came the first Shadow Cabinet meeting . |
| 10 | Horton believes that Bull , who recently became the first Wolves player to score 200 goals , would be the ideal England partner for Alan Shearer . |
| 11 | It publicly demonstrated the first NT/SMP version running on a 16-processor Symmetry back in August to help Microsoft allay reports that NT 's SMP capabilities are severely limited and would require heavy re-architecting . |