Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The principles and example of the Revolution helped to inspire the first successful slave revolt in the Caribbean in Haiti , as well as the political independence movements of South America . |
| 2 | Of these societies ( outside those areas of disseminated settlement where the parish tended to become the first unit beyond the family and that of those neighbouring farmers who helped each other out at harvest and ploughing ) the most significant was the pueblo . |
| 3 | The government intended to achieve the first aim primarily through council housing , relegating privately-built housing to a secondary position . |
| 4 | The audience held their breath in one collective sigh as the orchestra began to play the first few bars of ‘ Strolling with Nancy ’ . |
| 5 | And , at the start of the 1940s , a baseball administrator named Branch Rickey began his search for the man destined to become the first black player in a white team . |
| 6 | The chance of the monkey happening to get the first letter — M — right is therefore 1 in 27 . |
| 7 | Shot entirely on location in South Central LA , the film aims to give the first true picture of what life is like in the ‘ LA Hood ’ . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , the company expects to ship the first MicroSparc clones next month starting at $3,790 for the Compstation LC and $4,690 for the LX , both undercutting Sun . |
| 9 | The company expects to unveil the first one in the region in York at the Clifton Moor Retail Park within months . |
| 10 | We do not need to wait for new efficient technology : as Stewart Boyle described in ‘ More work for less energy ’ ( New Scientist , 5 August 1989 ) , the technology exists to take the first step towards the targets we have set to save energy and fossil fuel , and to cut back on carbon dioxide emissions . |
| 11 | For larger loads the time taken to reach the first step position is longer and therefore the time between successive step commands is automatically adjusted to allow for the slower rate of acceleration . |