Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [verb] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michel Laclotte 's farewell show as director of the Louvre includes the first sight of its eight newly cleaned Titians |
| 2 | Nottingham Forest agreed to sign the transfer form which makes the England star the first summer addition to Graeme Souness ' squad . |
| 3 | In the autumn of 1929 the USSR became the first state to break the illusions created by the Kellogg-Briand pact by unleashing its Special Far Eastern Army upon the Manchurian nationalists , who rashly thought they could put an end to Soviet control of the Chinese Eastern Railway . |
| 4 | The Zero Energy Thermonuclear Assembly ( Zeta ) started working at Harwell in August 1957 , just before the USSR launched the first Sputnik . |
| 5 | In the same area , tribes such as the Zuni and the Hopi built the first apartment houses in the USA . |
| 6 | Though France is the primary target when the US hits the first $300 million worth of exports in December — America believes that they are behind the EC 's ‘ stubbornness ’ — Britain is next in the firing line . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , the Mondeo becomes the first Ford to use a new electronically-controlled four-speed automatic transmission system . |