Example sentences of "to the first [adj] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this connection it is interesting to go back to William Smith , the father of stratigraphy , and to find him commenting in his memoir to the first geological map in 1815 : " The edges of the strata … are called their outcrops ; and the under edge of every stratum , being the top of the next , and that being generally the best defined , is represented by the fullest part of each colour " . |
| 2 | In a speech to the first extraordinary congress in its 69-year history of the ruling Mongolian People 's Revolutionary Party ( MPRP ) , held in the capital Ulan Bator on April 10-13 , general-secretary Gombojavyn Ochirbat called on the estimated 926 delegates to acknowledge the party 's previous mistakes and the shortcomings of its leadership which , he stated , had been " crucial in plunging society into its present crisis " [ see pp. 37317-18 for details and consequences of March unrest ] . |
| 3 | The impact of the oil crisis and its associated inflation led to the first actual decline in income for OECD countries for over a quarter of a century . |
| 4 | Unlike baby goslings which lock on to the first moving object in sight , the newborn baby will be relatively undiscriminating about who tends his needs for the first three or four months of life . |
| 5 | For more than thirty-seven years held the important situation of teacher to the first public institution in this country for the education of the deaf and dumb ; which was established in this parish , A.D. 1792 … |