Example sentences of "[conj] have [verb] the first " in BNC.
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1 | The group of researchers that has seen the first indications of a Z particle is code named UA1 , and is one of the two teams that reported the evidence for the W particle earlier this year . |
2 | IN humility it should probably be mentioned that having overcome the first two rounds of the Darlington and District 5s and 3s knock out , feckless Falchion B have finally succumbed . |
3 | The invention of the tank and the aircraft broke through the defensive stalemate that had characterised the first world war . |
4 | The managing director of the bank that had advanced the first £20,000 was willing , the board , influenced by Niki 's grandfather , was n't . |
5 | They dragged me to the Police Station where I had to make a detailed statement of everything that had happened the first time intercourse took place . |
6 | Many of the enterprises that have survived the first year of reform are still at risk . |
7 | The 1844 Report hints however that there had been some decline in standards at the lower end of the School , and urged that " prior to admission the Boys should be able to read and write and have learned the first principles of English grammar . |
8 | Moore is said to have been a pioneer in producing a periodical for seamen , the Mariners ' Journal , which was published briefly between 185I and 1854 , and to have advocated the first system of paid shore based officials to look after the interests of their members while they were at sea . |
9 | The alluvial marsh was supposed to have been the site of an ancient royal swannery , and to have contributed the first syllable to the name Swanwic , mentioned in Domesday , though Old English ‘ swan ’ appears to derive from swineherd . |
10 | Coleridge had worked intensely , under Southey 's close scrutiny , to prepare the lectures , and had written the first at a single sitting between midnight and breakfast-time on the day it was delivered . |
11 | Rhiannon Petts weighed just one pound three ounces at birth and had to spend the first nine months of her life in hospital . |
12 | Viscount Melbourne became Prime Minister in July 1835 , but by the end of that year , it was necessary for the Duke of Wellington to become Prime Minister for a short period , followed for about one year by Sir Robert Peel , who had been Home Secretary and had introduced the first Police Force , enrolling men who soon became known as ‘ Peelers ’ or ‘ Bobbies ’ , after the founder . |
13 | It was where Diana was born and had spent the first fourteen years of her life . |
14 | She lived in the house where my mother had been born and had spent the first seventeen years of her life , up until the time she was married . |
15 | But having collected the first item on Alex Ferguson 's spring shopping list they hope it will prove to be the lever to rid themselves of a 25-year burden . |
16 | Their main argument is that the World Cup should move around on a rotational basis , but having staged the first three tournaments , other countries have some catching up to do before it returns to these shores . |