Example sentences of "[vb past] to [art] first [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus Thomas Erastus ( 1523–83 ) appealed to the first chapter of Genesis to demonstrate that God had created plants before planets . |
| 2 | Two years of basic research led to a first description of Mamprusi court ritual and the system of succession . |
| 3 | Their discovery helped overthrow the medieval concept of the Solar System and a few decades later , by a method that I shall not describe , observations of Io led to the first determination of the speed of light , which until then was thought by many philosophers to be infinite . |
| 4 | It was this that led to the first hints of how the theories of quantum mechanics and general relativity might affect each other — a glimpse of the shape of a quantum theory of gravity yet to come . |
| 5 | A flight of granite steps to his right led to the first floor of one of the buildings and an arrow carried the word , ‘ Office ’ . |
| 6 | In his Objections , appended to the first edition of Descartes 's Meditations ( 1641 ) , Hobbes rejects this . |
| 7 | His last work , Chinese Connoisseurship , the Ko Ku Yao Lun , published posthumously and co-operatively in 1971 , saw to the first translation of the fourteenth-century album of connoisseurship Gegu yaolun . |
| 8 | Haynes fell to the first ball of West Indies ' reply , but the local pair of Lara and Simmons added 78 before the former fell to Kuiper . |
| 9 | An invoice raised in April 1991 related to the first stage of contract payment on a verbal order given by the customer in March 1991 , ie the first payment was due from the customer on approval of the order . |