Example sentences of "had [verb] [noun] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The concept of a constitutional amendment as a means of returning to fiscal probity had gathered momentum throughout the first half of 1992 . |
| 2 | In the event , although both Charitable Trust and Council had given assent to the first advert on the policy agreed , they baulked at the second wave of recruiting , and sought to change the basis of our agreement . |
| 3 | The distinctive characteristic of these writers was their belief in progress : the belief , in particular , that the system of international relations that had given rise to the First World War was capable of being transformed into a fundamentally more peaceful and just world order ; that under the impact of the awakening of democracy , the growth of the ‘ international mind ’ , the development of the League of Nations , the good works of men of peace or the enlightenment spread by their own teachings , it was in fact being transformed ; and that their responsibility as students of international relations was to assist this march of progress to overcome the ignorance , the prejudices , the ill-will , and the sinister interests that stood in its way . |
| 4 | These measures , collectively known as the Tory Reaction , meant that by 1685 the opposition alliance which had given rise to the first Whig party had largely crumbled . |
| 5 | M. Lévy gave me a third more for the second vase than he had given Jean-Claude for the first one . |
| 6 | It had been laid out some fifty years before by one of those famous Scottish golfers who had dominated golf in the first couple of decades of the century . |
| 7 | On this occasion some of the Messerschmitts had carried bombs for the first time — not a new role for III/JG 27 , which had operated in this manner over the Balkans during the previous month . |
| 8 | Less publicity shy was Stephen Quinn , publishing director of Vogue , the fashion magazine , who had voted Conservative for the first time in his life . |
| 9 | Uncle Vernon , goaded by the presence of the traveller with the skin grafts , had ruined the festive meal with recollections of his march across France and an encounter in a partially demolished farmhouse outside Lille with a white-haired woman of thirty who as a small child had suffered atrocities in the First World War . |
| 10 | Near his Chalk Farm flat was an entrée to another social scene , the world of the small magazines , of Pete Brown , Mal Dean — who had done design for the first It and Robins was drawn towards it . |
| 11 | Sir Bryan had made par on the first hole by sinking a long putt and his tail was up . |
| 12 | In the following month the Japanese Deputy Foreign Minister , Kunihiko Saito , had visited Moscow for the first working-level negotiations on the dispute since the termination of the Soviet Union . |
| 13 | As he set off for the airport Lewis remembered that he had told Adam from the first that only trouble could come from a person of his youth and inexperience inheriting a big house and land of the dimensions of Wyvis Hall . |
| 14 | Within the general framework of his attack on the humanistic Hegelian tradition of Western Marxism , Althusser 's specific objection to Sartre 's attempt to mediate Marxism with existential subjectivity was that such a move went against the crucial discoveries which had founded Marxism in the first place ; in an extension of Lévi-Strauss ' argument , he maintained that the notion of ‘ man ’ that Sartre used was derived from a particular ideological definition of the human subject which represses Marx 's insight that the human subject is not the centre of history , together with Freud 's that the subject is not centred in consciousness . |
| 15 | One Friday evening , I drove down to the lovely old house , Ramster , near Chiddingfold , where artist Mr Paul Gunn and his charming wife Miranda had invited friends to the first night of an exhibition of Paul Gunn 's most recent landscapes , and to drinks and supper . |
| 16 | Spending of convertible currencies on imported cars had reached $200,000,000 in the first 11 months of 1989 and had caused a considerable drain on currency reserves . |
| 17 | Although the majority of individuals have a high-grade stenosis , this lady had marked irregularity of the first part of her left anterior descending vessel , with a narrowed perforator branch , angiographic features of thrombus but without vessel occlusion . |
| 18 | The report added that participants had emphasised the significance of the exchange of military information , which had taken place for the first time in Vienna in mid-April , as " one of the key links in the development of a confidence-building and security system in Europe " . |
| 19 | After all , she had signed Sting in the first place ( she had even given him a list of music-business lawyers to consult at the time , but he had used the Newcastle lawyer because he was cheaper ) . |
| 20 | It was like he had discovered sex for the first time , ’ said a friend . |