Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [art] first [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In November , Hungary became the first East European nation to apply for membership to the council based in Strasbourg , France . |
| 2 | In November , Hungary became the first East European nation to apply for membership to the council based in Strasbourg , France . |
| 3 | In March 1989 Hungary became the first East European state to accede to the 1951 Convention and 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees ( under which states agreed not to expel refugees or return them to their homeland if they would face persecution there ) . |
| 4 | In 1964 Norah and Jean started the first Surrey regional training course . |
| 5 | If the move up-market started anywhere , it was on Saturday 4 July 1981 , when SLOA ran the first PSLC over the Settle & Carlisle and down the Appleby-Warcop branch , for what now seems a very modest fare of £15 first class , £12 second class from London ( Euston ) , together with a tray meal at £2 ! |
| 6 | The Zero Energy Thermonuclear Assembly ( Zeta ) started working at Harwell in August 1957 , just before the USSR launched the first Sputnik . |
| 7 | Vermuyden constructed the first Bedford River , twenty-one miles long , to drain the so-called Bedford Level , and it was highly effective for a time , but the one factor the engineer failed to foresee was that the dried-out land would shrink ( see Holme Fen ) , and soon the level of the canal was above that of the surrounding land . |
| 8 | Barry Abrook became the first UK skater to spin a 540 and make it . |
| 9 | Czechoslovakian President Havel became the first East European head of state to visit Israel , in April 1990 . |
| 10 | In 1893 , Drewy Stoddart became the first Middlesex batsman to score a century in each innings of a county match — carrying his bat for 195 not out ( out of 327 ) and 124 against Nottinghamshire at Lord 's . |
| 11 | Moving forward a little , in 1958 Lillie attended the first UN Conference on the Law of the Sea . |
| 12 | On May 25 Roh became the first South Korean leader ever to address the Diet , the Japanese legislature . |
| 13 | In June 1991 Poland received the first EBRD loan [ see p. 38306 ] . |
| 14 | Once again , the backbone of the innings came from Lamb and Botham , and just before the close on the first day Lamb became the first England batsman since Barrington in 1960 to score centuries in consecutive Test innings against West Indies . |
| 15 | N.A. Mallender became the first England bowler to take five wickets in an innings on Test debut since N.G.B. Cook ( v NZ , Lord 's , 1983 ) . |