Example sentences of "[vb past] a [noun sg] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In March 1770 Mozart received a commission to write the first opera for the following carnival season in Milan . |
| 2 | Secondly , the Congress adopted a resolution initiating the First Five Year Plan ( FFYP ) of industrialisation and collectivisation of agriculture , both of which had long been advocated by the opposition . |
| 3 | The examples listed here were all from hoards , and included a dish depicting the First Labour : the hero strangling the Nemean Lion . |
| 4 | It took a while to identify the first two but we 've finally managed to do that . |
| 5 | In the autumn of 1984 I introduced a bill to bring the first pension reforms into effect . |