Example sentences of "[adj] the first [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given that the first best solution of achieving SEM type trade liberalisation on a global basis is not possible because of very large economic and political problems , the second best SEM programme may not be harmful to world trade providing that an expansion in world trade takes place as a result of this programme . |
| 2 | If so , was that the first recorded occurrence of the Leeds salute ? |
| 3 | Usko thought this the first systematic collation of these languages . |
| 4 | The deadline was June 11th 1803 , and on July 7th 1801 the first general meeting of subscribers was held in the Session House in Bedford . |
| 5 | By 1882 , Edison 's system of generating power in a central power station , changed industrial methods almost as much as steam had brought about the industrial revolution , and by 1885 the first internal combustion driven machine had appeared , to be followed in 1894 by the first recognisable motorcar . |
| 6 | In 1924 the First Labour Government devoted much effort to restoring normal relations with the Soviet Union . |
| 7 | The gift was accepted and plans made — although never fulfilled — to have some 30 canoeists with each Commando , and in July 1940 the first Special Boat Section was formed . |
| 8 | In 1904 the first Pan-Presbyterian Council was held and in 1905 the Baptist World Alliance was formed at Exeter Hall . |
| 9 | 2.2 The first German sample provided the pilot for the following surveys : |
| 10 | In 1917 the First German Association of Large Families was founded and at least two active pro-natalist organisations were established . |
| 11 | Some of the Old Stopfordians present , including Lord Royle ( since 1964 the first Stopfordian Life Peer ) , had attended the School at Greek Street . |
| 12 | In 1981 the first large timeshare complex opened at Langdale , helped by a tourist board grant . |
| 13 | APR 1992 The first two Improvement Teams were trained and a database set up to record TOP Tips . |
| 14 | ( 3 ) In 1902 the first major science fiction film was made , in France : the twenty-one-minute silent A Trip to the Moon , by George Méliès . |
| 15 | Uncertainties concerning ownership of land and buildings , the state of the balance sheets of East German companies and labour costs had discouraged Western companies from investing in East German companies , but on Aug. 17 the first major investment agreement was announced . |
| 16 | 4 The first recorded date in history , which maybe the British Domesday Book of 1086 , or the Crusader Lists , or possibly the 16th century Huguenot register . |
| 17 | The non-governmental environmentalist organization Greenpeace published in Washington on May 29 the first comprehensive survey of the human and environmental impact of the Gulf war , based on interviews with relief workers , reporters and US officials . |
| 18 | At Batavia , the pall of ash took a fair while to arrive ; in the early morning of the twenty-seventh , the sky was clear , but by 10.15 it had become lurid and yellowish as the ash spread across the sky ; by 10.30 the first fine ash was actually sifting softly down on to the streets . |
| 19 | In 1966 the first international taekwondo federation was formed . |
| 20 | In the early 19th century shopkeepers began offering free gifts as an inducement to trade , while in 1844 the first co-operative dividend scheme was introduced . |
| 21 | In 1970 the first Congressional reform bill for more than two decades was passed — the Legislative Reorganization Act . |
| 22 | In 1832 the first parliamentary reform bill was passed and Dundee was one of the new constituencies created by the Act . |
| 23 | On Monday 27 July 1778 the first major action of the new war was fought some 70 miles [ 112 km ] west of Ushant , and proved indecisive , but convinced Louis XIV 's chief minister , the Comte de Vergennes , that he needed Spanish help to clear the way for a successful invasion . |
| 24 | In 1907 the first Egyptian Nationalist Congress met . |
| 25 | The UN General Assembly approved by consensus on Feb. 23 the first international plan to combat illegal drug production and consumption ( estimated by the UN to be worth US$500,000 million a year ) and declared the period 1991-2000 the UN Decade Against Drug Abuse . |
| 26 | The Eugenics Society set up in 1926 the first medical study on contraceptive experience , which reported benefits to health . |
| 27 | In 1956 the first recorded questioning of the bondholders ' status occurs , paradoxically as the interest payments on bonds are resumed . |
| 28 | In August 1989 the first direct flight by a German national carrier between East and West Germany ( from Frankfurt/Main to Leipzig ) was made after the Four Powers decided in July to allow the West German airline Lufthansa to make direct commercial flights on a trial basis . |
| 29 | On 13 July 1919 the first two-way crossing of the Atlantic was completed by the Beardmore-built R34 , which made the flight to Minneola in the USA in spite of carrying the world 's first airborne stowaway . |
| 30 | In 1965 the first advanced gas cooled reactor , Dungeness B , was ordered . |