Example sentences of "make [adj] [noun] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In view of the fact that Miliutin was made chairman of the new local government commission the prospects for a generous solution looked good , but the commission made little progress in the first year of its life . |
| 2 | So when [ named defendant ] , 41 , made sexual overtures for the first time during their five-year friendship she went to a neighbour and cried rape . |
| 3 | The proposal made some changes to the first paragraph of Security Council Resolution 598 , dealing with a ceasefire and the withdrawal of troops , in line with Iraqi demands . |
| 4 | The economy made good progress during the first half of 1990 , with GNP growth of 1.5 per cent , a reduction in the budget deficit , a noticeable improvement in the trade balance and a fall in inflation to 8 per cent from around 25 per cent in 1989 . |
| 5 | Kamara had no great love for Scottish strikers ; in April 1988 he made legal history as the first English League player to be fined in court for an on-pitch assault . |
| 6 | You go along thinking you know exactly what everything is , and then you stop and look at it and it does n't make any sense and you think maybe it only made any sense in the first place because everyone was pretending it did . |
| 7 | ‘ If she 's dead , ’ said Sam , ‘ she 's not going to mind much about anything , and anyway , if she went to all the trouble of making that tape in the first place , she 's obviously not bothered about leaving it lying around . |
| 8 | You should make excellent progress during the first week of the New Year . |
| 9 | Lowell , too emotionally mind-blown to try to make any sense of the first part of the letter , was immediately thrust into action by the second paragraph . |