Example sentences of "in [num] [pron] [vb past] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1891 he gained the first Whitworth exhibition awarded to a member of the Horwich Mechanics ' Institute . |
| 2 | Sheltering abroad , in 1558 he wrote The First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Woman — the ‘ regiment ’ actually meaning a regimen or government by women , which he condemned as ‘ a thing most contrarious ’ to God 's ‘ revealed will and approved ordinance ’ . |
| 3 | In 1986 who became the first Gloucestershire player since 1966 to play for England ? ( 6 ) 4 . |
| 4 | Before he was 19 , Gauss had constructed , by straightedge and compass , a regular 17-gon , the first " new " constructible regular polygon for 2000 years , and in 1799 he gave the first satisfactory proof ( where Newton , Euler and Lagrange had failed ) of the fundamental theorem of algebra ( 4.8.1 ) . |
| 5 | Under the reforms of Josef II , when the Jesuit Order was abolished , the Clementinum became a seminary under the supervision of the archbishop of Prague , and in 1799 it became the first Academy of Fine Arts . |
| 6 | Indeed the authorities became so concerned that in 1935 she became the first cartoon character to be censored . |
| 7 | In 1933 he made the first crossing of the uninhabited interior wilderness of Iceland with a wheeled vehicle — his bicycle . |
| 8 | In 1904 they opened the first Poor Law farm colony , in Essex , to provide work training for the unemployed . |
| 9 | Cooke 's interest in fungi began while he was teaching , and in 1862 he published the first popular book on toadstools , A Plain and Easy Account of British Fungi . |
| 10 | In 1859 he built the first of his 2–2–2 type express locomotives , two of which took part in the railway ‘ race ’ between east- and west-coast companies from London to Edinburgh in 1888 , and in 1863 he developed the 2–4–0 type for use over more heavily graded routes . |
| 11 | In 1870 he gave the first authentic account of amoebae from the human intestine . |
| 12 | As a director of Routledge , he took an interest in what I was writing , and in 1946 he commissioned the first book I was to produce on philosophy , The Approach to Metaphysics . |
| 13 | In 1922 it planned the first of a series of national hunger marches which were to become the NUWCM 's principal contribution to the inter-war years . |
| 14 | In 1981 he launched the first of a series of closely watched consumer surveys . |
| 15 | In 1928 she became the first person ever to swim the Straits of Gibraltar ( in 12 hrs. 50 min. ) , braving the perils of whirlpools , currents , and sharks . |
| 16 | In 1928 she published the first general history of the women 's suffrage movement , The Cause , and in 1931 Millicent Garrett Fawcett . |
| 17 | In 1887 she became the first and only woman on the school board at Rotherham . |
| 18 | In 1973 he became the first person to be Knighted for his contribution to conservation . |
| 19 | In 1698 , Martin published ‘ A Late Voyage to St. Kilda , the Remotest of all the Hebrides ’ , and five years later in 1703 there appeared the first edition of ‘ A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland ’ . |
| 20 | In 1855 he built the first section of the Llanidloes- Newton line , and later extended his operations all over Wales . |
| 21 | In 1864 he received a first class in classical honour moderations , and then in 1867 a first in literae humaniores , even though he was said to have read no more than half the required books . |
| 22 | In 1852 he became the first Moderator of the new Presbytery of Otago Province and in 1869 the first Chancellor of the University of Otago . |
| 23 | In 1938 we began the first School Broadcasts for the province , and I was in charge of production . |
| 24 | His family had regularly provided MPs for the adjacent borough of Plympton Erle since 1437 ; but in 1597 he became the first to represent the county . |
| 25 | In 1890 he published the first of his two major textbooks , Theory of Light , followed by Theory of Heat in 1894 . |
| 26 | In 1854 he became the first official photographer to the British Museum , and received several commissions to photograph for Queen Victoria and Prince Albert . |
| 27 | In 1868 he founded the first lodge in England , ‘ Columbia ’ lodge no. 1 . |
| 28 | In 1956 he became the first consultant neurologist to the RVI , establishing a department which achieved an international reputation . |
| 29 | He broke new ground in musical humour when in 1956 he organized the first of a series of concerts of symphonic caricature at which new music , some of it by respected composers like Malcolm Arnold , was played on ludicrous instruments or to the accompaniment of vacuum cleaners or road rammers . |
| 30 | In 1990 it became the first company to offer on-line access to data from Companies House on all limited companies operating in the UK . |