Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [verb] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a narrow sense my main interest is the period in which the Kaiser ruled over Germany , which of course includes the First World War . |
| 2 | Initialisation involves a change of handshape to represent the first letter of the English translation of the sign ( see chapter 6 ) . |
| 3 | Shellac records were simply too fragile to be posted ; so the special circumstances of war justified the first vinyl records . |
| 4 | For a valid range of module issues the first version must be less than the last version . |
| 5 | For a valid range of module issues the first version must be less than the last version . |
| 6 | For a valid range of module issues the first version must be less than the last version . |
| 7 | For a valid range of module issues the first version must be less than the last version . |
| 8 | For a valid range of module issues the first version must be less than the last version . |
| 9 | In 1987 Conservative ministers boasted of their success while still claiming that the conquest of inflation remained the first objective of policy . |
| 10 | In icy American logging camps it was common for the cook to detonate small amounts of dynamite to cook the first meal of the day , which brought a whole new meaning to bangers for breakfast . |
| 11 | The King James translation of the Book of Genesis renders the first line as In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth , confident that prior to God there was nothing , that Yahweh created the universe ex nihilo . |
| 12 | In the 1952 election campaign the Republicans promised to take a tough line with the Russians , and the appointment of John Foster Dulles as Secretary of State seemed the first step in fulfilling that pledge . |