Example sentences of "first [noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jamie knew that wherever he was in the wild world , far from his home , he was not the first Scotsman to hammer at the gate . |
| 2 | In only 14 cases did the user ‘ volunteer ’ in the first instance to go to the Drugs Council . |
| 3 | Waving to one side the 15–20- per cent changes in protein synthesis rates and enzyme activity I had reported , Francis Crick was explicit on this point at a Royal Society discussion meeting in London in 1977 when I presented the results we had by then obtained on imprinting in the chick and the effects of first exposure to light in the rat . |
| 4 | The first part to arrive in the West End Farm workshop was a 20-year-old back-end from an International 806 tractor . |
| 5 | The first department to input to the system was Archaeology and Documentation calculate that by the year 2003 they will have finally input all NMS records — approximately 600,000 entries . |
| 6 | Yet Mrs Molina becomes the first Latino to sit on the county 's governing board since 1872 — and the first woman ever . |
| 7 | Reginald Bassett 's 1931 : Political Crisis , published in 1958 , was the first attempt to look at the events of 1931 free from contemporary preconceptions . |
| 8 | One reason for organising the 5 October 1968 march in Derry was that NICRA had always considered the city to be a natural focus for its attempts to raise the question of civil rights , but the demonstration was not the first attempt to organise around the issue in Derry . |
| 9 | The first attempt to break through the deadlock created by the blacklisting of Lamarckism was made not by Darwin , but by the Edinburgh publisher and amateur naturalist , Robert Chambers ( 1802–71 ) . |
| 10 | However , when you ask the first child to look at the card written on the piece of paper , it is the correct one . |
| 11 | ( Phoebe ) Bradley became the first lady to serve on the Club Committee , an event doubly unique , for although not a bondholder she was elected by their Committee to represent them for a four-year term . |
| 12 | The first gallery to emerge after the war was Galerie Der Spiegel , founded in 1945 by Hein and Eva Stünke , who later became an intermittent director of Documenta , and in 1967 established the Cologne Art Fair . |
| 13 | He would be the first boy to land on the moon . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , its anorexic attractions are exactly the kind of thing you 'd expect from people who only formed a band in the first place to get off the dole . |
| 15 | The trap works as follows : the first rune to pass through the doorway on any day ( dawn to dawn ) is automatically drained of its power until the following sunrise . |
| 16 | AT LEAST three records will be established in today 's 138th University Boat Race — Cambridge 's Dirk Bangert will become the first German to row in the race , Andy Probert , their 38-year-old cox , will be the oldest ever competitor and Oxford 's Boris Mavra will be the first Yugoslav Blue . |
| 17 | 6.1 is the first product to spring from the company 's Moscow operation where about 65 staff are unexpectedly housed in offices in the Olympic stadium . |
| 18 | The first product to come from the alliance is expected in the second quarter of 1994 , and is intended to form a base on which network operators can develop specific software applications . |
| 19 | TONY MILES , the first Englishman to qualify for the Grandmaster title , now holds the joint lead after six rounds of the Netway Masters in Auckland , New Zealand . |
| 20 | Sir Francis Drake was the first Englishman to sail around the world . |
| 21 | It was the first Shrine to go in the Reformation , burned to the ground . |
| 22 | The first person to arrive at the scene was a flying instructor who had run 300 metres carrying a fire extinguisher to the scene . |
| 23 | ‘ There 's only one conclusion we can reach , Master Coroner — Sir Ralph might not be the first person to die in the Tower before Yuletide comes . ’ |
| 24 | She was not the first person to wonder about the secret of Harry Short 's success . |
| 25 | Viscount Northcliffe , the prominent journalist , offered a handsome Cash prize to the first person to fly across the English Channel which resulted in a Frenchman , M. Bleriot , flying from Calais to Dover in 1909 , which was the year in which Sir A. V. Roe began aircraft manufacture . |
| 26 | — the heart is the first organ to develop in the embryo ; when we are no more than the size of a kidney bean , our heart is visible , pumping away ; |
| 27 | For me the high point of the week at Sunningdale was my first chance to commentate for the BBC . |
| 28 | Our Mosquito squadron had gone out to bomb one of the usual targets in western France and when they began to come back , the first crew to come into the Met Office told us the news , |
| 29 | Style mogul Simon Forbes from Antenna made history in October by becoming the first hairdresser to appear on the Wogan show . |
| 30 | The first locomotive to run on the line was the ‘ Comet ’ , brought by canal for the occasion and driven by George Stephenson himself , to the sound of a band and a salute of cannon fire . |