Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [adj] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Annie now embarked on her remarkable public career , first as an associate of the atheist Charles Bradlaugh in the National Secular Society , then as a Fabian socialist and strike leader ( of the London matchgirls ) , and as one of the first members of the London School Board . |
| 2 | In 1889 , the miller was the aptly named Mr T. Miller , and between 1897 to the First World War , Frank Parry . |
| 3 | This shift led to the return in 1892 of Keir Hardie as the first independent labour MP , and in 1898 of the first labour council in British electoral history . |
| 4 | I have run ahead of chronology however and in particular of the First World War , which the peoples that had entered it as parts of the Empire ended as free-standing independent nations . |
| 5 | The latter design , meanwhile , required a net comprising two identical grids of spaced squares , in staggered formation , but with one grid superimposed on and at 450 to the first . |