Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [art] first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After moving to Willesden in north-west London he became the scourge of local boxers and eventually became the first black man to hold a British title when , in 1907 , he beat Curly Watson in the fourth of a scheduled twenty rounds to take the welterweight championship at the ‘ Wonderland ’ venue in the East End of London . |
| 2 | Carol Moseley Braun won in Illinois and thereby became the first black woman , and only the second black person , to serve in the Senate . |
| 3 | Not only one but both his elder sons did so , and thereby became the first Jewish officers to be commissioned . |
| 4 | Harue Kitamura was elected mayor of Ashiya , in the southern prefecture of Hyogo , thereby becoming the first Japanese woman to hold such a post . |
| 5 | Few of them were old enough to remember the first Great Famine of the 1840s , when Father Cavanagh had worked tirelessly to help the starving . |
| 6 | IN December , 1943 , the men working feverishly to create the first American atomic bomb sent a team of ‘ spooks ’ to Naples . |
| 7 | Anglicans and Protestants now not only heard the first systematic teaching on the word of God in the Church ever formulated by a Catholic Council ( for Trent had only dealt with particular points at issue with the Reformers ) , but also admired it . |
| 8 | United Microelectronics Corporation will apparently produce the first commercial version of the thing using a 0.6-micron CMOS process trying for a 50MHz , 39 MIPS part in the second half of the year . |
| 9 | The story of how ministers did so provides the first substantial evidence about how John Major 's government is functioning behind closed doors . |
| 10 | Others , however , probably burrowed underground , surviving long enough to become the first true mammals . |
| 11 | He did so successfully in 1948 , outpointing Vince Hawkins at Birmingham and thus becoming the first black champion to be recognized by the BBBC . |
| 12 | Our results thus provide the first direct evidence that tamoxifen does not have antioestrogenic effects on bone in postmenopausal women and indicate a possible oestrogenic effect . |
| 13 | In the recent British Library publication , ‘ The Emergence of the Electronic Book ’ ( BNB Research Fund Report 46 , 1990 ) , we saw how handheld electronic reference devices based on chip memories were already foreshadowing the first true electronic books . |
| 14 | If care proceedings arise from a s37 investigation ( see Chapter 3 , 1(b) ) it should be remembered that the court may have already made a first interim order when making the direction . |
| 15 | News from France is that recent Peak immigrant Felicity Butler has just made the first British female ascent of an F7c . |
| 16 | The Intor workshop has already produced a first broad proposal a definition of the envisaged plant and its objectives . |
| 17 | How much will he spend to bail out the first-wave trusts so that they do not end the first financial year in deficit ? |
| 18 | She remain uncertain still what was to be done with it , though she consoled herself with the thought that in entering the court of Le Grand Jeu and submitting to its verdict , she had already taken the first tentative steps . |
| 19 | ‘ He just said the first impertinent thing that came into his head . |
| 20 | No sooner had the first Labour ad appeared on a Darlington Transport Company vehicle than Coun. Peter Jones , one-time chairman of the borough transport committee , warned of dire consequences . |
| 21 | We are struggling tonight to achieve the first tentative step in Britain 's planning , not for two or three years hence , but for the better part of a decade hence , and to achieve at King 's Cross the equivalent of what has been under construction for several years at Lille . |
| 22 | US scientists have successfully produced the first gene-altered wheat , opening up the possibility of the development of high-protein strains and ones resistant to drought and disease . |
| 23 | HOCKEY star Steve Martin yesterday became the first British player sent off in Olympic Games history . |
| 24 | SOUTH Africa 's State President , Mr FW de Klerk , yesterday suffered the first serious blow to his reputation as the great reformer by appearing to acquiesce in a cover-up of political murders carried out by state agencies , including the police . |
| 25 | THE South African government , the African National Congress and its rival , the Inkatha Freedom Party , agreed yesterday to hold the first multi-party talks since all-race democracy negotiations broke down last May . |
| 26 | Coton , last season 's choice by his fellow professionals as the country 's top goalkeeper , has been in England squads for two years but is still awaiting a first full cap . |
| 27 | FLANKED by guards , model Lindsay yesterday gave the first public display of the world 's most expensive jeans , £100,000 diamond-studded denims . |
| 28 | For example Bowling Festival Week in Eirias Park usually held the first full week in August offer £2,000 in prize-money . |
| 29 | The main political event of the year to June 1991 was the general election in March , in which the opposition KESK gained the largest number of seats ( 55 out of 200 ) and went on to form the first Finnish government in 25 years which did not include a left-wing party . |
| 30 | At the same time he also became the first known clerk of Parliament and thus was responsible for beginning the compilation of the rolls of Parliament . |