Example sentences of "built the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the same area , tribes such as the Zuni and the Hopi built the first apartment houses in the USA . |
| 2 | They do n't even know who built the first engine ? |
| 3 | Watt was not alone as an engineer and canal-builder , and his work laid the foundations of the industrial north of England , together with Thomas Telford of Dumfriesshire , greatest of the early civil engineers , William Symington , who designed and built the first steamship in the world as well as giving poet Robert Burns a rough ride during its promotional voyage on Dalswinton Loch , Henry Bell and his Comet , Nasmyth , there is nae doot that the Scots have a very special genius . |
| 4 | At his works in London he built the first carriage used on the L & B line and also the carriages for the Eastern Counties , the London and Brighton , the London & South-Eastern , the London South-Western , the Blackwall Railways . |
| 5 | He built the first wind tunnel in Scotland and obtained his Ph.D . |
| 6 | The Lawns at Broseley , the home of John Wilkinson who built the first iron bridge , now houses a large impressive collection of English pottery and porcelain . |
| 7 | De Havilland , a British company , designed and built the first passenger jet airplane , but it did not analyze what the market needed and therefore did not identify two key factors . |
| 8 | In 1855 he built the first section of the Llanidloes- Newton line , and later extended his operations all over Wales . |