Example sentences of "form the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Brown Owl , moving quickly , placed Brownie after Brownie in position , until she had formed the first human letter : —
2 This enabled Mitsotakis to form the first single-party government since 1981 .
3 The main political event of the year to June 1991 was the general election in March , in which the opposition KESK gained the largest number of seats ( 55 out of 200 ) and went on to form the first Finnish government in 25 years which did not include a left-wing party .
4 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 .
5 The six UK inspectors and one each from Azerbaijan , Hungary and Ukraine formed the first international team from the UK .
6 An example can be seen at the Didcot Railway Centre With the fine locomotives designed by Daniel Gooch , the GWR 's broad gauge trains formed the first real expresses and indeed the inaugural train from London to Bristol led to the comment that this must be the only time on record that an engineer had exceeded his promises !
7 The Unitarian minister had established a reading room in Yeovil in 1842 , and in 1849 the Rev F.R. Robertson formed the first Working Men 's Institute at Brighton closely followed by the setting up of a similar Institute in South Shields .
8 But when MacDonald formed the first Labour Government in 1924 , he brushed aside Morel 's claim to the Foreign Office and took the job himself , combining it with the premiership .
9 All thirteen LEAs in the region served by the District were represented on the Council together with the University , the WEA , the YMCA and the Educational Settlements Association and formed the first consultative body of its kind in the country .
10 Buses — some of them upside-down and turned into barricades — were strewn across the square while a mountain of upended transport containers formed the last Christian front line .
11 The special pressures and problems of the major urban areas form the third common theme to emerge .
12 The soft red/brown sandstone buildings at Brechin form the last Caledonian branch line terminus .
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