Example sentences of "probably the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was probably the first successful application of the crank to a steam engine in order to produce rotary motion . |
| 2 | He outlined the long connections of the New River Head site back to early in the 17th century when what was probably the first privatised water company was established by James I ( VI of Scotland ) . |
| 3 | Okay good now this is probably the first real go at doing pie charts that you 've had is n't it ? |
| 4 | We have clear descriptions of Charles from his chroniclers and contemporaries ; he is probably the first powerful figure to emerge from the Dark Ages as a completely documented ruler . |
| 5 | He was probably the first deaf man in the world to do so . |
| 6 | There is a small spine-like papilla lying within the mouth slit which is probably the first oral tentacle scale . |
| 7 | ‘ I suspect it 's probably the first decent meal you 've had for days , Melody . |
| 8 | It 's been toyed with a few times but as far I 'm aware , this is probably the first serious attempt — certainly at the sort of scale we 're talking of — to use a perched beach to provide coastal protection . |
| 9 | While these oboists were all young musicians , Jacques Hotteterre would in 1675 have been a well established artist , at the mid-point in his career , with a name carrying the renown of the Hotteterres as performers and instrument makers ; he can now be identified as probably the first French oboist known to have held an official position at the English court . |
| 10 | Probably the first long-playing disc records were made by the Neophone Company of London in 1904 ; they were twenty inches in diameter . |
| 11 | I may venture to add Jerry and I were probably the first Scottish kids to hear this coming over the air . |
| 12 | ) . Their biggest hit was called ‘ But I Love Sergeyevitch ! ’ which was probably the first pop song to treat Mikhail Sergeyevitch Gorbachev in a friendly if rather frivolous manner . |
| 13 | Thus , we have chemical control — albeit naturally derived — of a chemical contaminant not a biological one , and probably the first recorded instance . |
| 14 | This is again a comprehensive and thoroughly investigated article and is probably the first extended account of Situationist cinema in English . |
| 15 | ‘ You know , surfers are probably the first human beings to travel around peacefully , not to conquer . |
| 16 | The untreated , untrimmed , unadorned sheepskin was probably the first human garment and may therefore have been associated in the Minoan mind with the distant and primeval past . |
| 17 | It caused probably the first mythical switchboard ( since phones were only just installed ) , the cancelling of the Thursday night repeat was discussed in Parliament , Prince Philip loved it , Peter Cushing ( as Winston ) became a star , and the genuine sewer rats used for ‘ that ’ sequence all passed out under the studio lights . |