Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [vb past] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peaceful demonstrations by students and intellectuals during January constituted the first significant challenge to the ruling Mongolian People 's Revolutionary Party ( MPRP ) since it took power in 1924 . |
| 2 | President Havel of Czechoslovakia became the first head of state on July 19 to ratify the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe ( CFE ) , signed by the six Warsaw Pact and 16 NATO member countries in November 1990 [ see p. 37838 ] , and which entailed sharp reductions in troops , tanks and weaponry . |
| 3 | A similar exchange opened in 1880 in Ipswich , and in 1891 the Borough of Chelsea launched the first municipal exchange . |
| 4 | The pattern of Europe was squarely placed upon the city of Jerusalem when , in 1100 , Baldwin of Boulogne became the first King of Jerusalem . |
| 5 | In 1987 Conservative ministers boasted of their success while still claiming that the conquest of inflation remained the first objective of policy . |
| 6 | In the 1952 election campaign the Republicans promised to take a tough line with the Russians , and the appointment of John Foster Dulles as Secretary of State seemed the first step in fulfilling that pledge . |
| 7 | In 1977 a female student at the University of Missouri became the first patient to be turned from a woman to a man by means of surgery . |
| 8 | Only a handful of shows survived the First World War , during which many of the old varieties of berries became extinct . |
| 9 | The Court of Appeal dismissed the first and second defendants ' appeal against Mr Justice Vinelott 's order that the defendants permit the plaintiff 's solicitors to inspect and take copies of an affidavit in the possession of the defendants ' solicitors . |
| 10 | THE Princess of Wales faced the first day of her formal separation with a composure and dignity which never slipped . |
| 11 | UNFORTUNATELY , I was unable to be present at the luncheon at a London hotel on Tuesday when the Duke of Gloucester presented the first English Tourist Board car park awards . |
| 12 | Though he recalled once scoring a hat-trick for Toronto Blizzard , Nicholl 's two goals against Dunfermline marked the first time in his senior career that the Irishman had notched a double in top-class football . |
| 13 | In 1988 , Andrei Kataev and two other physicists at the Institute of Nuclear Research in Moscow published the first calculation for routes which involve three gluons ( Physics Letters B , vol 212 , p 238 ) . |
| 14 | The former British champion from Sunderland took the first step back on the road to championship level by stopping Clarkson with 65 seconds gone of the fifth round . |
| 15 | Macedonia , which in January took the first steps towards independence [ see p. 38704 ] , faced hostility from Greece which felt that its name implied a territorial claim on the northern Greek province of Macedonia . |
| 16 | Over the years they had worked well and closely together until the political situation in Russia underwent the first dramatic changes . |
| 17 | In July came the first visit from the phantom night hound . |
| 18 | After four hours ' play of the sixth round Martin showed the first sign of faltering as he slipped into a bad position against fellow Australian grandmaster Ian Rogers , who is in joint second place with Miles on 4/5 in third place . |
| 19 | Democrat Carol Moseley from Illinios became the first black woman to be elected to the Senate . |
| 20 | The ploy worked and from its modest slot around 4.30 on Sunday afternoons Pathfinders in Space attracted the first real family audience for a science fiction serial . |
| 21 | This lack of English settlement in Aquitaine struck the first British student of Anglo-Gascon history as notable . |
| 22 | Last week , officials from NASA began the first of several dozen firing to nudge TDRSA into its proper orbit . |
| 23 | When the first draft of this review had been completed , a protein plaque or two moved in the reviewer 's senile brain and he remembered that he had in fact reviewed the first edition for this journal . |
| 24 | But because of his private trainer status Sibton Abbey 's win on Saturday marked the first time Murphy 's name had been credited as trainer of a big race winner . |
| 25 | Pieter Coetzee , aged 62 , on Thursday became the first white to be hanged in the South African tribal homeland of Bophuthatswana , for a double murder in 1987. -Reuter . |
| 26 | At 1.24am on April 26th 1986 , the 14 men in the control room of reactor number four at Chernobyl witnessed the first stirrings of what was to become the worst nuclear accident in history . |
| 27 | The force from Hereford had the choice of two ways in , the more northerly by Hay and Brecon , the more southerly by Abergavenny , and by ill-luck chose the first . |
| 28 | On 5 September 1818 , James Hamilton , grocer extraordinaire and showman by nature gave the first public commercial showing of the new ‘ light-brackets ’ by installing ‘ sex jetties ’ , or six of the ‘ wee lights ‘ , as we might say today . |