Example sentences of "of [noun] [vb past] [art] first [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In 1985 , however , the Ministry of Agriculture took a first step towards meeting environmentalists ' objections , with a new ‘ Guidance for Drainage Authorities ’ on investment appraisal .
2 President Havel of Czechoslovakia became the first head of state on July 19 to ratify the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe ( CFE ) , signed by the six Warsaw Pact and 16 NATO member countries in November 1990 [ see p. 37838 ] , and which entailed sharp reductions in troops , tanks and weaponry .
3 The pattern of Europe was squarely placed upon the city of Jerusalem when , in 1100 , Baldwin of Boulogne became the first King of Jerusalem .
4 In 1987 Conservative ministers boasted of their success while still claiming that the conquest of inflation remained the first objective of policy .
5 In the 1952 election campaign the Republicans promised to take a tough line with the Russians , and the appointment of John Foster Dulles as Secretary of State seemed the first step in fulfilling that pledge .
6 In 1977 a female student at the University of Missouri became the first patient to be turned from a woman to a man by means of surgery .
7 Only a handful of shows survived the First World War , during which many of the old varieties of berries became extinct .
8 However , more recently , in Eurocopy plc v Teasdale , reported in the journal PLC in November 1991 , the Court of Appeal upheld a first instance decision , and dismissed an application to strike out a defence , that in connection with a sale and purchase agreement , the actual knowledge of the purchaser might still be a defence to a claim for breach of warranty notwithstanding a clause in the sale and purchase agreement which provided that no actual or constructive knowledge on the part of the purchaser would prejudice a claim .
9 THE Princess of Wales faced the first day of her formal separation with a composure and dignity which never slipped .
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