Example sentences of "[verb] the [num ord] real [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The Pecora hearings in the US Congress in 1933–34 produced the first real condemnation of insider dealing . |
2 | Perceiving the new opportunities , in 1765 Lloyd joined with a rich Unitarian neighbour , John Taylor , to found the first real bank in Birmingham , Taylors & Lloyds , the four equal partners being Taylor , his son John , Sampson Lloyd II , and his eldest son , Sampson III . |
3 | Maxim drove it slowly , en-joying the first real countryside he had been in since the hot weather began . |
4 | The ploy worked and from its modest slot around 4.30 on Sunday afternoons Pathfinders in Space attracted the first real family audience for a science fiction serial . |
5 | Mich eventually resorted to placing a hook on tension , then continuing to tension from the hook to reach the first real crack line for ten pitches . |
6 | A footprint in a muddy field could provide the first real lead for police hunting the man who 's become known as the horse ripper . |
7 | However , the challenge is there to be met and oncogene manipulation may provide the next real step forward in a disease which has proved largely refractory to radio- or chemotherapy , and in which prognosis has changed little over the past 40 years . |
8 | Skiing was one of the best-kept secrets in the world until Mathias Zdarsky invented downhill or Alpine skiing and opened the first real ski school near Vienna by the beginning of the twentieth century . |
9 | The ITN film , providing the first real evidence of ill-treatment , increases pressure for military intervention . |
10 | But just when it seemed that the former were to disappear up a one-club road to exclusive excellence , along came Newport and beat them to mark the first real return on all the investment at Rodney Parade . |
11 | An Oshkosh steamer won a 232 km ( 201 miles ) race from Green Bay to Madison , Wisconsin in 1878 but the French claim the first real race for automobiles was the 31 km ( 19.3 miles ) race from Saint-James , Paris , along the Seine , to Neuilly in 1887 . |
12 | After crossing several fields I turned down to the right to follow a metalled road for a while until I reached the first real treat of the day , the Roman road . |
13 | The data obtained from Tamm 's studies revealed , for the first time , the magnitude of the flux that underlay , the apparent stability of many plant communities and ( after Darwin ) gave the first real insight into plant community dynamics dominated by establishment and deaths . |
14 | Ratification of the Maastricht deal is likely to prove the first real test of Mr Major 's new Government . |