Example sentences of "[verb] the first real [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | The ITN film , providing the first real evidence of ill-treatment , increases pressure for military intervention . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This week arguably saw the first real skirmishes of that impending struggle for succession : the sub-text of set-piece deliveries by Sir Geoffrey Howe , Kenneth Baker , Michael Heseltine et al . |
| 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 | An example can be seen at the Didcot Railway Centre With the fine locomotives designed by Daniel Gooch , the GWR 's broad gauge trains formed the first real expresses and indeed the inaugural train from London to Bristol led to the comment that this must be the only time on record that an engineer had exceeded his promises ! |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Ratification of the Maastricht deal is likely to prove the first real test of Mr Major 's new Government . |