Example sentences of "of [verb] [noun] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In August 1899 , Joseph revisited his Valley of Winding Waters for the first time in twenty-two years . |
| 2 | Most gliding clubs have a system of re-checking pilots during the first few hours of solo flying , but then pilots are left very much to their own devices to improve their soaring techniques . |
| 3 | Neither side had more than a couple of scoring chances in the first half , and Ecchinswell took advantage of the first of these , breaking through after dispossessing Martin Whiddett on the sideline and finding a vast opening in the Alton defence . |
| 4 | ( He had previously given assurances that he would return to face charges of slandering Mazowiecki during the first round . ) |
| 5 | We are now evaluating the performance of wether lambs from the first cross to be finished under hill conditions , and we will use the first cross females for early lamb production without using sponges . |
| 6 | The French authorities did something to safeguard communal property among their Moslem subjects in Algeria , even though Napoleon III ( in the Senatus-Consulte of 1863 ) found it inconceivable that individual property rights in land should not be established formally among the members of Moslem communities ‘ where possible and opportune ’ , a measure which actually had the effect of permitting Europeans for the first time to buy them out . |
| 7 | It is historically untrue to say that religious decline in Europe began in the twentieth century : the majority of working people in the first one hundred years of industrialism were not regular churchgoers ( though the new middle classes were ) . |