Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [verb] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The study draws together the results of five years ' work by the investigator and the findings of the ESRC 's extensive research programme in this field to provide the first comprehensive account of central-local relationships in the UK for nearly twenty years . |
| 2 | Simons claims that this work provides the first reliable description of how an animal virus enters the cell and initiates infection . |
| 3 | This announcement represented the first explicit US endorsement of an offensive military option . |
| 4 | This report provides the first direct evidence for expression of P3A + variant mRNA in human thymus . |
| 5 | These observations provide the first direct evidence that the early stages of T-cell development depend on fibroblast products and suggest that this effect is unlikely to be mediated solely by soluble factors . |
| 6 | To our knowledge , these findings provide the first direct evidence that mesenchymal as well as epithelial cells are involved in T-cell development , and suggest that their involvement is stage-specific and likely to be dependent on short-range or contact-mediated interactions . |
| 7 | Like any other youth , I was thrilled by the annual visits of the big circus , and when the Al G. Barnes Circus came to town I paid my own way in to the ‘ show ’ and sat up that night writing the first big-top review for the Times-Herald , which Fred Workman accepted with alacrity . |
| 8 | The results achieved by a number of research groups were sufficiently encouraging for many academics to form the first commercial companies to develop and market AI software . |
| 9 | These sculptures must date from the middle or later seventh century , and from much the same time come the first carved fragments plausibly associated with a Doric temple . |
| 10 | There 's an art to getting on and off the thing — most people fall the first few times . |