Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [vb past] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | With this he struck the first blow , and broke it in striking . ’ |
| 2 | In 1933 he made the first crossing of the uninhabited interior wilderness of Iceland with a wheeled vehicle — his bicycle . |
| 3 | Perhaps the most dramatic shift in the pattern of work associated with new technology was that which characterised the first industrial revolution , as thousands moved to the newly forming industrial towns to work in the mills . |
| 4 | Holroyd Smith was indeed keen to demonstrate the relative success of his new traction system : on June 29th he operated the first test runs in Princess Street , using one of the experimental Manchester cars . |
| 5 | Indeed the authorities became so concerned that in 1935 she became the first cartoon character to be censored . |
| 6 | In 1986 who became the first Gloucestershire player since 1966 to play for England ? ( 6 ) 4 . |
| 7 | In 1904 they opened the first Poor Law farm colony , in Essex , to provide work training for the unemployed . |
| 8 | As a director of Routledge , he took an interest in what I was writing , and in 1946 he commissioned the first book I was to produce on philosophy , The Approach to Metaphysics . |
| 9 | He was already feeling ill by Christmas , but nevertheless he was writing extraordinarily rapidly and by 1 January 1941 he sent a first draft of the poem , tentatively entitled " Dry Salvages " , to John Hayward . |
| 10 | In 1859 he built the first of his 2–2–2 type express locomotives , two of which took part in the railway ‘ race ’ between east- and west-coast companies from London to Edinburgh in 1888 , and in 1863 he developed the 2–4–0 type for use over more heavily graded routes . |
| 11 | In 1870 he gave the first authentic account of amoebae from the human intestine . |
| 12 | Cooke 's interest in fungi began while he was teaching , and in 1862 he published the first popular book on toadstools , A Plain and Easy Account of British Fungi . |
| 13 | Early in 1938 two summations of his work were published : Essays Ancient and Modern in March and , a month later , Collected Poems 1909–1935 which included the first publication of " Burnt Norton " . |
| 14 | The hearing ended last night with the jury members saying they were not sure who fired the first shots because they found the evidence was inconclusive . |
| 15 | In 1922 it planned the first of a series of national hunger marches which were to become the NUWCM 's principal contribution to the inter-war years . |
| 16 | In 1981 he launched the first of a series of closely watched consumer surveys . |
| 17 | On the second day of the Workshop those who attended the first meeting will return to participate in activities which will assist in preparing for their own course validation event . |
| 18 | This was destined to be of particular importance to the measurement of time , because the blacksmith was the forerunner of those who constructed the first mechanical clock . |
| 19 | In 1928 she became the first person ever to swim the Straits of Gibraltar ( in 12 hrs. 50 min. ) , braving the perils of whirlpools , currents , and sharks . |
| 20 | In 1928 she published the first general history of the women 's suffrage movement , The Cause , and in 1931 Millicent Garrett Fawcett . |
| 21 | By 8.00 I felt the first slight warning tickle . |
| 22 | In 1887 she became the first and only woman on the school board at Rotherham . |
| 23 | In 1698 , Martin published ‘ A Late Voyage to St. Kilda , the Remotest of all the Hebrides ’ , and five years later in 1703 there appeared the first edition of ‘ A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland ’ . |
| 24 | In 1973 he became the first person to be Knighted for his contribution to conservation . |
| 25 | In February 1987 it became the first fluoroquinolone to be marketed in the UK under the tradename Ciproxin . |
| 26 | Before he was 19 , Gauss had constructed , by straightedge and compass , a regular 17-gon , the first " new " constructible regular polygon for 2000 years , and in 1799 he gave the first satisfactory proof ( where Newton , Euler and Lagrange had failed ) of the fundamental theorem of algebra ( 4.8.1 ) . |
| 27 | Under the reforms of Josef II , when the Jesuit Order was abolished , the Clementinum became a seminary under the supervision of the archbishop of Prague , and in 1799 it became the first Academy of Fine Arts . |
| 28 | In 1891 he gained the first Whitworth exhibition awarded to a member of the Horwich Mechanics ' Institute . |
| 29 | Advocates of press freedom asserted that the Noriega tapes case had set a disturbing precedent in that it undermined the First Amendment by giving legal endorsement to the concept of " prior restraint " in the form of a pre-publication review of a pending news story . |
| 30 | Sheltering abroad , in 1558 he wrote The First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Woman — the ‘ regiment ’ actually meaning a regimen or government by women , which he condemned as ‘ a thing most contrarious ’ to God 's ‘ revealed will and approved ordinance ’ . |