Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Norwegian biologist Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe made the first important observations on dominance , in the 1920s . |
| 2 | But in the new spate of glasnost , or openness , one of I T N's Moscow reporters , Bill Meely became the first European journalist to be shown inside the Lubyanka , the K G B's headquarters . |
| 3 | Lieutenant General Augustus Pitt-Rivers became the first official guardian of Britain 's heritage |
| 4 | On July 1 Andorra became the first non-EC country to join the EC customs union , when a treaty signed in June 1990 [ see p. 37592 ] came into effect . |
| 5 | When W. S. Rockstro made the first thorough-going attempt at a life of Handel in 1883 , he had before him a list of no fewer than 53 likenesses made during the composer 's lifetime . |
| 6 | WASHINGTON — General Dmitri Yazov became the first Soviet defence minister to visit the US yesterday , beginning a week of talks as the guest of his opposite number , Dick Cheney , writes Marc Champion . |
| 7 | In June 1988 , James Hansen became the first prominent atmospheric scientist to tell governments that the greenhouse effect had been confirmed ‘ with about 99 per cent confidence ’ ( Hansen et al. , 1988 ) . |
| 8 | In 1961 Pillai became the first Indian chairman of GKW ( the Indian subsidiary of GKN ) . |
| 9 | On July 16 François Mitterrand became the first French President to attend the annual service held to commemorate the arrest and detention in 1942 of 12,884 Jews in the " Vel " d'Hiv " " cycling stadium in Paris . |
| 10 | On 24 June Edward won the first notable victory of the war in the naval battle fought off Sluys ( Fr L'Ecluse ) at the mouth of the river Zwyn , at which a larger French fleet was decimated by superior English tactics and the better use of prevailing conditions . |
| 11 | To prepare his reforms , Ivan summoned the first Zemsky sobor ( 1549 ) , the consultative body destined to play an important if erratic role in the next century of Muscovite history . |
| 12 | Stewart McGrane scored the first seven minutes after the break with the second not arriving until five minutes from the end , which says a lot for the Galashiels defence . |
| 13 | The following day , Darwin made the first evolutionary entry in his current pocket notebook ( known as the ‘ Red Notebook ’ ) : ‘ When we see Avestruz two species . |
| 14 | During the talks Mubarak became the first Arab leader to accept the US suggestion that the Arab countries should drop their economic boycott of Israel in return for an Israeli freeze on its settlement activities . |
| 15 | Tanturi and Ivy provided the first convincing evidence for the choleretic action of the vagus by showing that stimulation of the distal end of the divided vagus caused increased secretion of bile . |
| 16 | In the 13C a cloister was founded then , in the 17C , Caratti designed the first octagonal cupola in Prague for the Order . |
| 17 | England hosted the first three World Cups in 1975 , 79 and 83 . |
| 18 | England hosted the first three World Cups in 1975 , 79 and 83 . |
| 19 | Ireland opened the first commercial monorail in 1888 . |
| 20 | Changes to the law relating to agricultural land introduced in late April and early May constituted the first major reform of land-tenure legislation since 1969 . |
| 21 | In the early 1930s , IBM developed the first modern accounting machine , which was designed for banks , but banks in 1933 did not buy new equipment . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The six UK inspectors and one each from Azerbaijan , Hungary and Ukraine formed the first international team from the UK . |
| 24 | Woosie aside , most of us might score closer to the 100 with which Bernard Darwin won the first official Club meeting in 1893 . |
| 25 | Over the years they had worked well and closely together until the political situation in Russia underwent the first dramatic changes . |
| 26 | In 1881 Mr Kibataro Oki produced the first Japanese telephone and created a company that has grown dramatically over the last 110 years . |
| 27 | In 1881 Mr Kibataro Oki produced the first Japanese telephone and created a company that has grown dramatically over the last 110 years . |
| 28 | Troops committed by Pakistan and Bangladesh left for the Gulf in early September , while on Sept. 18 Argentina became the first Latin American country to announce that it would send forces ; two frigates , a Hercules aeroplane and 450 soldiers left on Sept. 25 , despite opposition claims that this action violated the Constitution and was inconsistent with Argentina 's diplomatic tradition of neutrality in overseas conflicts . |
| 29 | From the early 1890s the LCC built the first large modern housing estates in the country . |
| 30 | In Verona Mussolini reviewed the first Italian troops to go to Russia : the Julia division of the Alpini . |