Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb past] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was presented , to Darlington Harrier Andy Campbell , when the race was established as an open event in 1904 and given to Duncan McLeod-Wright to keep when the Scottish runner became the first man to win three times , in 1929 . |
| 2 | Local types were beginning to be noticed , and in 1709 the English parliament passed the first of a series of Enclosure Acts which , indirectly , would lead to breed development by curtailing the traditional practice of communal grazing and random mating . |
| 3 | But Kevin Keegan 's team are still 12 points in front and their good-looking football dominated the first half and the last 20 minutes . |
| 4 | As the conflict between Milosevic and the FRY intensified [ see below ] , the Serbian delegation boycotted the first meeting in Zagreb on Oct. 12 of the committee set up under the Sept. 30 agreement to normalize relations between Croatia and the FRY . |
| 5 | Fittingly the local-born lad took the first spot kick which completed the first leg of what could see the city 's two clubs meet for the first time in the last four . |
| 6 | The hon. Gentleman quoted the first paragraph of AMMA 's report . |
| 7 | I am not surprised that the right hon. Gentleman avoided the first point , because the report to which my hon. Friend the Member for Poole ( Mr. Ward ) referred produced the following answer within the Labour party : ’ Some argue it will highlight one of our weaker points ’ . |
| 8 | The hon. Gentleman mentioned the first ; in my original answer , I showed how we intend to work towards it . |
| 9 | Next year , the younger son of this old man became the first of five Richard Goughs to live at Newton on the Hill , a mile or so from Myddle church . |
| 10 | In 1930 the Royal College of Public Health started the first family-planning courses for physicians . |
| 11 | Khaled Nezzar became the first Defence Minister of Cabinet status appointed in 25 years . |
| 12 | Desert Storm , with its thousands of sorties a day , could have been planned without computers ( the Schlieffen plan launched the first world war with sweat and brainpower , little more ) ; but computers allow the plans to be fine-tuned and to be altered quickly . |
| 13 | By the time another male child followed the first , almost exactly a year later , it was time to perpetuate the maternal grandfather 's Christian name . |
| 14 | It started its quality improvement process in 1988 and the following year became the first French chemical company to gain ISO 9000 registration . |
| 15 | He formed the A. S. Neill Society to spread libertarian views on education , and the following year held the first of a series of camps for potential pupils and staff . |
| 16 | In May 1960 the EEC began to look at ways of liberalising the movement of capital , and the following year issued the first regulations governing the existence of cartels . |
| 17 | Beside it , a large window showed the first view that Tug had seen for five days . |
| 18 | The Boer War brought the first murmurs of coalitionism , a sense of national crisis brought the first attempt to form a coalition , and the advent of the First World War made it a practical possibility . |
| 19 | Sitting back to enjoy the mid-morning sun the bobbin on the rod with corn on started jumping up to the butt and a quick strike saw the first fish of the session go screaming off up the lake . |
| 20 | For BSL , a language with no written form , national television offered the first context for standardisation of a language of low status , reputed to vary widely in different regions of the country . |
| 21 | Omani sailors gained fame for their navigational skills and indeed an Omani pilot guided the first Portuguese ships on the earliest European discovery of the trade routes to the East . |
| 22 | National Semiconductor became the first of a stream of US and later Japanese electronics investors to take the bait . |
| 23 | The Princess , dressed simply in a white blouse and dark skirt , was draped with crimson flower garlands as she flew over Mount Everest in a helicopter , 40 years after a British-sponsored expedition became the first to reach the summit of the world 's highest mountain.As she flew past the snowy peak a relative of a Nepalese climber who accompanied Sir Edmund Hillary up Everest in 1953 was leading a seven-member Australian team up the mountain.Although the Princess did not see any climbers she told fellow passengers aboard her Super Puma helicopter that she had a wonderful time seeing the mountain through clear skies . |
| 24 | Iggy Pop handled the first of four keynote speeches with admirable aplomb , setting himself up for a neat career in stand-up comedy after this rock 'n' roll malarkey is over . |
| 25 | THE Prime Minister met the first British woman to reach the top of Mount Everest — and got her name wrong . |
| 26 | The Prime Minister convened the first ever meeting of the UN Security Council at Heads of Government level . |
| 27 | The Select Committee recommended the first course and said that the life sentence should be interpreted and administered in the same way as the sentence to which a reprieved murderer is subject at present . |
| 28 | The idea is not new — a Hungarian engineer designed the first photocomposing machine in 1894 — but its widespread adoption depended on the computer to select characters at high speed from an optical storage disc . |
| 29 | A 43-year-old man underwent the first heart transplant operation at the London Hospital , Whitechapel . |
| 30 | Dry grasslands are in part a relic of early agriculture , dating from the days when pre-historic man undertook the first forest clearances . |