Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [art] first [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Holy City of Mashad , Mrs Ghodssieh Alavi , a 50-year-old doctor associated with the ‘ pragmatist ’ faction supporting Mr Rafsanjani , took the highest number of votes and became the first Iranian woman to be elected outside Teheran . |
| 2 | He was one of the first proponents of detente towards eastern Europe and became the first Western head of government to receive Arab leaders such as Yassir Arafat of the Palestine Liberation Organization and Col. Kadhafi of Libya . |
| 3 | , and became the first lay students of Ushaw College , the Northern Catholic seminary , to train for ministry . |
| 4 | He was educated at Elphinstone College where he remained as a teacher and became the first Indian professor with his appointment to the chair of mathematics and natural philosophy ( 1854 ) . |
| 5 | This new strain ( KT1026 ) has been satisfactorily evaluated in Australia and represents the first commercial release of a genetically engineered microorganism for biocontrol . |
| 6 | Undaunted , he returned a week later and made the first clean ascent . |
| 7 | But as Luke joined with her and experienced the first brief resistance of her untutored flesh she felt the shock run through him . |
| 8 | But in 1981 Malte Andersson tested for a preference in long-tailed widow birds , and provided the first strong evidence for Darwin 's theory . |
| 9 | Later , she and Gosling were able to demonstrate conclusively what this relation was , and to provide the first analytical demonstration of the correctness of the Watson–Crick model . |
| 10 | Because we observe changes in Hox expression in neural crest and motor nerves as well as in the early neural epithelium , multiple groups of cells that will enter and populate the first branchial arch may have adopted a second branchial arch identity . |
| 11 | The project 's adviser on underwater television is Peter Scoones , who is an extremely experienced underwater photographer ( and photographed the first live coelacanth ) . |
| 12 | Even when all intended partners of the new firm have indicated assent it will still be necessary to establish some order of seniority and to select the first senior partner : though joint senior partners are not unknown , the better arrangement may be for some restriction to be put upon the time that office is held by any one individual so that by rotating it between the participating firms a reasonable balance is achieved . |
| 13 | Accompanied by his wife , whom he had married shortly before sailing , Johnson arrived with the first fleet and celebrated the first Anglican service under ‘ a great tree ’ at Sydney cove on 3 February 1788 . |
| 14 | Skiing was one of the best-kept secrets in the world until Mathias Zdarsky invented downhill or Alpine skiing and opened the first real ski school near Vienna by the beginning of the twentieth century . |
| 15 | He was a pioneer photographer , inventing and selling the first popular exposure meter , and his natural empathy with the countryside is reflected in his photographs . |
| 16 | There was a loud Boing ! and Trevor did n't say any more to him but just went back and called the first assistant director and said , ‘ I want that monstrosity out of my window . ’ |
| 17 | In India he developed his work among students , and founded the first Christian hostel for students at the University of Poona , as well as helping to build the ashram at Poona . |
| 18 | At their centres in Zanzibar , Tanga and elsewhere , they produced hymn books and other religious literature in Swahili and started the first Swahili newspaper in 1898 . |
| 19 | Fish began to haul themselves out of water and become the first back-boned creatures to colonise the land . |
| 20 | Runner-up three times , Mansell finished second in the Hungarian Grand Prix — enough to clinch the world drivers ’ title and become the first British champion since James Hunt in 1976 . |
| 21 | He went through the ritual of lighting the cigar and took a first luxurious puff before continuing : ‘ It 's not easy to put this sort of thing in proper perspective . ’ |
| 22 | The old man dipped his nose and took a first careful sip . |
| 23 | The cell bodies along the midline of r2 and r3 now express the transgene , as well as the nerve that exits r2 and innervates the first branchial arch ( Fig. 1 d'-f' ) . |
| 24 | In addition to a normal facial motor nerve , RA induces the expression of the Hox-B1/lacZ transgene in a second motor nerve that exits from r2 and innervates the first branchial arch indicated by the open arrow head ( f' ) . |
| 25 | All thirteen LEAs in the region served by the District were represented on the Council together with the University , the WEA , the YMCA and the Educational Settlements Association and formed the first consultative body of its kind in the country . |
| 26 | In this chapter , I describe how the work in these classrooms has helped to highlight this neglected area , and offer a first tentative analysis of the processes involved . |
| 27 | The incubation period between picking up the infection and showing the first clinical signs is four to five days and during this time the animal appears clinically normal . |
| 28 | Originally named the Laboratory Equipment Corporation LECO is based in St Joseph , Michigan , USA and started life by developing and introducing the first volumetric carbon determinator for the iron and steel industry . |
| 29 | The nuns travel to South Africa this month to build and establish the first multi-racial convent in Mafikeng in the African homeland of Bophuthatswana . |
| 30 | Instead , the selectors opted for Peter Richardson , who silenced the critics by qualifying for Barcelona but suffered a first round knockout by Stone 12 months ago . |