Example sentences of "perhaps the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was this , perhaps the first 5-point try scored in this country ? |
| 2 | The Commission 's action against Dennis Levine was perhaps the first major success . |
| 3 | Perhaps the first essential will sound trivial . |
| 4 | Calvinist Ghent in the 1570s , Paris under the domination of the Catholic League were perhaps the first sustained exercises in popular power in the modern period , and even they did not last long . |
| 5 | Perhaps the first significant initiative came from France , although the Dutch politician , Sicco Mansholt , had already drafted a plan for agricultural free trade that would benefit Western Europe as a whole , but especially the cost-effective Netherlands agricultural industry . |
| 6 | But if Charles was the first Carolingian , and perhaps the first medieval king , to show an insider 's appreciation of contemporary scholarship , he had ( directly or indirectly ) his mother to thank . |