Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He became arguably the first industrial designer , working in ceramic , glass , metal , furniture , wallpapers , and textiles . |
| 2 | In fact , assuming that the time elapsing between a subject 's decision to respond and the actual pressing of the button was about 75 milliseconds , subjects on average identified the target after having heard only the first 200 milliseconds of it . |
| 3 | Three hundred and forty years later , in 1918 , the National Education Association and the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools , in the United States , approved the so-called Certain Standards ( named after the chairman of its working party , Carl Caspar Certain ) which laid down the first standard specifications for a secondary school library . |
| 4 | The film covers only the first two-thirds of the book but is dramatically more satisfying because it is the story of Tom Joad 's political awakening . |
| 5 | Accordingly , in the autumn of 1870 , under the new title " Tragedy and the Freethinkers " , he drew up the first main plan whose scope , in both space and time , went substantially beyond Greece . |
| 6 | Hannon had picked up the first two races as well after starting the day with no confidence at all . |
| 7 | Pakistan 's start was not quite as grim as India 's at Headingley in 1952 , when the first four batsmen were out before a run had been registered , nor did it quite compare with Australia 's second innings at Brisbane in 1950 , when Bedser and Bailey send back the first three without a run on the board . |
| 8 | The Hong Kong authorities had carried out the first involuntary repatriation operation on Dec. 12 , 1989 [ see pp. 37121-22 ] . |
| 9 | Although some remedial work had been carried out the first major improvement was made in 1710 with the completion of a new stone pier . |
| 10 | He talked about Fitzroy , the naval officer who had carried out the first detailed survey of the waters we were looking down on , and of Darwin , who had joined Fitzroy in the Beagle for a second voyage in which the survey had been completed , followed by the long voyage home via the Galapagos and other islands , including New Zealand . |
| 11 | The intro locks with the kick , adding subtle fills in the first four bars . |
| 12 | ‘ Boy ’ Mould had served in France with 1 Squadron in 1939/40 , where he had shot down the first German aircraft to be claimed by R.A.F. fighters over the Western Front ; he had over eight victories to his credit at this time . |
| 13 | Which brings us to the blockbusting Italy issue arranged by Morgan Stanley , the US investment bank which put together the first US-style issue in Europe with an offering for New Zealand in August . |
| 14 | They were both of them talking in these high and ceremonious terms , Cadfael suspected , in order to smooth away the first sore moments , and give Sub-Prior Herluin time to master his chagrin , and achieve a graceful retreat . |
| 15 | I sometimes shape just the first third of the sleeve , increasing rapidly in this section but making it possible to knit the rest of the sleeve straight . |
| 16 | Dawn found me stretched out on the bench below the War Memorial in Glencoe Village soaking up the first warm rays of sun and waiting for the shop to open . |
| 17 | We had been talking on the National Consumer Council a bit about the lack of accountability in broadcasting , and I had also , as part of my Advisory Council work , directed and written up the first major study about adults , educational experience and needs — two and a half thousand interviews all over England and Wales . |
| 18 | Brunel was a successful naval architect , and an outstanding builder of bridges and tunnels , to say nothing of his three great steamships , the Great Western , which sailed out of the Bristol Channel to open up the first regular passenger service between Europe and America ; the Great Britain ( see Bristol ) ; and the Great Eastern , which began its maiden voyage a few days before Brunel 's death in 1859 , and remained the largest ship afloat for nearly half a century . |
| 19 | THE UNITED Nations is planning to set up the first international research centre for applying genetic engineering and biotechnology to crops . |
| 20 | FOREIGN ministers of the Organisation of African Unity endorsed a plan yesterday to set up the first pan-African peace keeping force , despite a chronic shortage of money . |
| 21 | He revisited the USA in 1917 to play a decisive part in helping to set up the first official American military intelligence service . |
| 22 | BLANTYRE 's Jim McCann and Richard Corsie , from Edinburgh , go into action in today 's semi-finals of the Midland Bank World Indoor Singles Championship attempting to set up the first all-Scottish final for four years on Sunday . |
| 23 | It caused probably the first mythical switchboard ( since phones were only just installed ) , the cancelling of the Thursday night repeat was discussed in Parliament , Prince Philip loved it , Peter Cushing ( as Winston ) became a star , and the genuine sewer rats used for ‘ that ’ sequence all passed out under the studio lights . |
| 24 | This project will carry out the first longitudinal study of the relationships between health and health related behaviour ; education and training ; and employment in men . |
| 25 | This research will carry out the first national random sample of Labour Party members . |
| 26 | In July 1914 air travel was still a novelty to many people and during an outing by employees of an Accrington firm of billiard table makers to Blackpool , a deaf employee named Jack Hargreaves became possibly the first deaf man ever to go up in an aeroplane when he went up as a passenger in a two-seater Fokkers biplane piloted by a Mr. H. Blackburn . |
| 27 | However , they went on to comment that the assumed riskless rate of 6 per cent in Part 1 of the results may have been an over estimate , as Part II shows only the first 2 factors to be significant while the fifth factor lost all explanatory power . |
| 28 | He was responsible for drawing up the first comprehensive anti-drugs strategy , unveiled in September 1989 , which involved increased spending , heavier penalties for casual users and incentives to drug-producing countries to clamp down on narcotics production . |
| 29 | Tutorials make up the first two days , followed by the main conference and associated exhibition . |
| 30 | Now click on the pencil icon and , using the appropriate colour , fill in the first three squares on both blank rows with colour one , the next three squares and two rows with colour two and so on . |