Example sentences of "[vb past] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here the boy met the first Anglican priest who interested him in religion . |
| 2 | THE Prime Minister met the first British woman to reach the top of Mount Everest — and got her name wrong . |
| 3 | It was Freud who made the first extensive use of hypnosis to probe the depths of the subconscious mind . |
| 4 | George Bush made the first Supreme Court appointment of his presidency on July 23 when he nominated David H. Souter , a federal Appeals Court judge , to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Justice William J. Brennan . |
| 5 | He built , to his own design , the steamship Robert Fulton , which made the first successful ocean voyage off the east coast of America , sailing from New York to Havana . |
| 6 | The following day , Darwin made the first evolutionary entry in his current pocket notebook ( known as the ‘ Red Notebook ’ ) : ‘ When we see Avestruz two species . |
| 7 | When W. S. Rockstro made the first thorough-going attempt at a life of Handel in 1883 , he had before him a list of no fewer than 53 likenesses made during the composer 's lifetime . |
| 8 | Sir Simon Fraser , one of the few veterans , made the first practical proposal . |
| 9 | It was James Watt who made the first major improvements to the principles worked out by Newcomen . |
| 10 | In 1972 the Local Government Act made the first major change in the local government system of England and Wales ( apart from the restructuring in London , which took place in 1963 ) , since the nineteenth century . |
| 11 | President Punsalmaagiyn Ochirbat made the first Mongolian presidential visit to South Korea on Oct. 22-25 , accompanied by Foreign Minister Tserenpilyn Gombosuren . |
| 12 | Ministers from all 15 member countries , attending the fourth Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation ( APEC ) conference in Bangkok on Sept. 10-11 , made the first significant move towards formalizing the loose APEC forum by approving the establishment of a permanent secretariat in Singapore [ see p. 38580 for third ministerial meeting in Seoul in November 1991 ] . |
| 13 | And in 1923 the company made the first published record by a reigning British monarch , King George V and Queen Mary 's ‘ Empire Day Message to the Boys and Girls of the British Empire ’ ( 34 ) . |
| 14 | So says Charles Munn , who made the first known sighting of this small parrot in 1985 , at clay-eating cliff in Peru 's Manu National Park . |
| 15 | In 1934/35 , Frank Fraser Darling made the first intensive study of deer , and his book A Herd of Red Deer is still a valuable source book . |
| 16 | Cody was largely responsible for the engine installation of the airship which flew in 1907 , and he designed and constructed the machine on which he made the first powered aeroplane flight in Great Britain on 16 October 1908 . |
| 17 | Undaunted , he returned a week later and made the first clean ascent . |
| 18 | The Celtic player Davie Hay and the late Hibernian full back Erich Schaedler made the first brave attempt , but they chose a defective boat and capsized almost immediately . |
| 19 | The Norwegian biologist Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe made the first important observations on dominance , in the 1920s . |
| 20 | Two years and a historical event passed before Jack Elliot and Harold Farrington made the first commercial flights in Curtiss Jennies , on March 3 , 1926 . |
| 21 | We made the first free-jazz record , with no plan , just improvised . |
| 22 | A pronouncement which proved to be news to his own personnel department when he made the first anguished inquiries . |
| 23 | In 1836 a Professor James Forbes made the first recorded ascent of Sgurr nan Gillean with Duncan MacIntyre , a local forester , as guide . |
| 24 | But it is sometimes forgotten that as far back as 1909 he built his own aeroplane in which he then made the first recorded flight over Ireland . |
| 25 | Poet , artist , calligrapher and connoisseur , Tung Ch'i-ch'ang devised the first systematic history and theory of Chinese art , dividing the old masters between the decorative Northern and the meditative Southern schools . |
| 26 | Had it succeeded , we would have been enriched by those labours which he afterwards devoted to his native country and which laid the first regular foundation for the science of veterinary medicine in Europe . |
| 27 | In 1849 he had bought a wire-rope business which laid the first permanent transatlantic telegraph cable in 1866 . |
| 28 | In 1982 , at ASH 's instigation , the government commissioned the first national survey of smoking among children and found that 11% of 11–16 year olds were smoking regularly [ 4 ] . |
| 29 | When Mr Bush lost and Mr Clinton became the first Democratic president for more than a decade , the much-valued special relationship between Britain and America suddenly looked decidedly shaky . |
| 30 | In June 1988 , James Hansen became the first prominent atmospheric scientist to tell governments that the greenhouse effect had been confirmed ‘ with about 99 per cent confidence ’ ( Hansen et al. , 1988 ) . |