Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [vb past] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The presidential election of 1952 saw the first large-scale hiring of skilled advertising men to do the politicians ' persuading for them . |
| 2 | Lady Arran , who in 1980 became the first person to top 100 mph in an offshore power boat , set the world speed record for an electric boat at just over 50 mph . |
| 3 | He turned down offers of partnership with the Peels and Arkwrights , and in 1790 erected the first steam-powered mill in Stockport , during a boom period . |
| 4 | He was Assistant Head of Religious Broadcasting at the BBC between 1949 and 1956 , and in 1963 became the first Executive Director of the World Association for Christian Broadcasting ( WACB ) , WACC 's predecessor . |
| 5 | The Pecora hearings in the US Congress in 1933–34 produced the first real condemnation of insider dealing . |
| 6 | In 1904 came the first car , and in 1920 Rover hit the headlines when its Light Six saloon raced the Blue Train Continental Express 750 miles across France — and reached Calais 20 minutes ahead of the train . |
| 7 | Turkish fortunes began to decline after the raising of the second siege of Vienna ( 1683 ) , and the Treaty of Karlovci ( Carlowitz ) in 1699 recorded the first major Ottoman defeat and the beginning of the slow retreat of the Turks from Europe . |
| 8 | Campbell was totally influenced by the great Italian architect Palladio and in 1715 published the first volume of Vitruvius Britannicus . |
| 9 | He scraped through the Eton of Dr Edmond Warre [ q.v. ] , under the particular care of Arthur Benson [ q.v. ] , his housemaster , without distinction , but in 1902 gained a first class in modern history at Balliol College , Oxford , where he also made a reputation for himself as a roof-climber , despite his blindness . |
| 10 | Arthur Eddy , an American critic who in 1914 produced the first book in English on Cubism , Cubists and Post-Impressionism , wrote that ‘ the comparison that Picabia is fondest of making is that of absolute music ’ . |
| 11 | Thomas Telford was as great a canal builder as he was road maker , and in 1818 became the first president of the Institution of Civil Engineers . |
| 12 | Resistance to his rule increased inside South Vietnam ; and in 1958 came the first ominous trickle of men and weapons from North Vietnam . |
| 13 | , Alexander William Charles Oliphant , Baron Murray of Elibank ( 1870–1920 ) , politician and company director , was born in Folkestone 12 April 1870 , the eldest son in the family of four sons and five daughters of Montolieu Fox Oliphant Murray , later tenth Baron Elibank ( peerage of Scotland ) , who in 1911 became the first Viscount Elibank ( UK peerage ) , and his wife Blanche Alice , daughter of Edward John Scott of Southsea , Hampshire . |
| 14 | ‘ But in 1973 came the first major oil shock . |
| 15 | Several members of the Nemanjić dynasty founded monasteries , some became monks , and the pious St Sava , son of Stephen Nemanja , in 1219 became the first archbishop of an autocephalous church , freed from the jurisdiction of the Greek-led archbishopric of Ohrid . |
| 16 | In the case of the Iranians , early in 1982 came the first references to the phenomena of attrition and the ‘ human wave ’ . |
| 17 | In 1653 came the first of three books of Ayres and Dialogues by Henry Lawes ; the others followed in 1655 and 1658 , and beside them Playford 's Breefe Introduction to the Skill of Musick for Song and Viol ( 1654 ) and instrumental music . |
| 18 | In 1902 he was transferred to Dehra Dun , and in 1905 became the first imperial mycologist at the new agricultural research station at Pusa . |
| 19 | His son George [ q.v. ] was secretary to David Hartley MP and at twenty-eight became the first British resident minister in Washington , USA ( 1791–5 ) , and was later under-secretary for foreign affairs . |
| 20 | At seven came the first allied setback . |