Example sentences of "[adj] and the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is the first western born challenger for the title since Bobby Fischer took the championship in 1972 and the first British player this century to be this close to the world title . |
| 2 | The entry for the case was located in the birth register and the first preceding and the first succeeding entries were selected who matched the case with respect to sex , date of birth ( plus or minus six months ) , district of birth registration , and family health services authority of the child 's first general practitioner . |
| 3 | It began very early in September and has really come to an end today with the last of the leaves falling overnight and the first serious snow on the mountains . |
| 4 | The first race at Brooklands was in July 1907 and the first British Grand Prix ( then known as the RAC Grand Prix ) was held at Brooklands in 1926 and won by Robert Senechal and Louis Wagner in a Delage at an average speed of 115.22 kph ( 71.61 mph ) . |
| 5 | Indeed , in 1949 Michel Debré , a leading Gaullist and the first prime minister of the Fifth Republic , had called for a ‘ union of European states ’ that would improve upon the limitations of the Council of Europe . |
| 6 | A major new book is Jelena Hahl-Koch 's Kandinsky ( £75 ) with 420 illustrations and incorporating many works only known after the opening up of the old USSR in 1989 and the first Kandinsky retrospective in his homeland . |
| 7 | Almost all the members of SAVE 's initial committee were under thirty and the first starry-eyed plans of raising £15,000 in the City to set up a well-equipped office and a secretary for one year came to nothing . |
| 8 | Pound did not reach Washington , however , until the middle of November 1945 and the first real chance Eliot had to acquaint himself with the situation was on the business trip to the United States which he planned for June and July of 1946 . |
| 9 | Intensive road testing of the first ten Class 91s started in the spring of 1988 and the first public services with the new Mk 4 stock started between King 's Cross and Leeds in October 1989 . |
| 10 | The political developments of 1968 and the first national conference of the Women 's Liberation Movement spanned my time as a student and rapidly thereafter as a mother . |