Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] the first [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He became arguably the first industrial designer , working in ceramic , glass , metal , furniture , wallpapers , and textiles . |
| 2 | Accordingly , in the autumn of 1870 , under the new title " Tragedy and the Freethinkers " , he drew up the first main plan whose scope , in both space and time , went substantially beyond Greece . |
| 3 | It caused probably the first mythical switchboard ( since phones were only just installed ) , the cancelling of the Thursday night repeat was discussed in Parliament , Prince Philip loved it , Peter Cushing ( as Winston ) became a star , and the genuine sewer rats used for ‘ that ’ sequence all passed out under the studio lights . |
| 4 | In July 1914 air travel was still a novelty to many people and during an outing by employees of an Accrington firm of billiard table makers to Blackpool , a deaf employee named Jack Hargreaves became possibly the first deaf man ever to go up in an aeroplane when he went up as a passenger in a two-seater Fokkers biplane piloted by a Mr. H. Blackburn . |
| 5 | Augustus laid out the first Imperial residence in this part of Rome , followed by Tiberius , Caligula and Domitian ; Septimius Severus built here on a very large scale . |
| 6 | But as we went up the first steep hill we quickly worked up a healthy sweat and removed our fleece jackets . |
| 7 | He brought out the first published Ordnance Survey map , An Entirely New & Accurate Survey of the County of Kent ( 1801 ) . |
| 8 | Although the conference brought about the first international agreement on a multilateral adjustment in exchange rates , it did not prevent the collapse of the adjustable peg system . |
| 9 | When Peter the Great gave up the first Russian fleet in southern waters after being disastrously defeated by the Turks in 1711 , he said that " The Lord God drove me out of this place , like Adam out of paradise " . |
| 10 | That 's how the test pilot summed up the first post-restoration flight in Dick Hansen 's Kittyhawk I. Once displayed on top of a filling station , the P-40 is now arguably the best there is . |
| 11 | In January 1990 Prime Minister V. P. Singh made some low-level appointments to the Council of Ministers [ see p. 37346 ] , and carried out the first major expansion of his Ministry in late April [ see p. 37378 ] . |
| 12 | The surgeons in Utah who carried out the first artificial heart operation are still waiting to see how their patient manages before carrying out any more operations . |
| 13 | In 1764 he wrote there the first Gothic novel , The Castle of Otranto , which , in his Description of Strawberry Hill , he connects directly with the house : ‘ A very proper habitation of , as it was the scene that inspired , the author . |
| 14 | With a solo exhibition of the works of Klaus Suss from Chemnitz ( until 5 May ) , Gunar Barthel continues its introduction to the artists who set up the first collective gallery of the GDR ( called ‘ Clara Mosch ’ using the initial letters of the names of its founder members ) . |
| 15 | Renault set up the first European organisation to collect and recycle certain car parts which had not previously been dealt with . |
| 16 | They knew the town 's closed order already had links with South Africa where , in 1931 , a group from the Carmel Convent set up the first Carmelite convent in Johannesburg . |