Example sentences of "[num] [verb] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Map 12 shows the first floor of the Castle , and Map 13 shows the higher floors of the Great Tower . |
| 3 | The International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) on June 30 released the first tranche worth US$647,000,000 of a US$2,200 million standby credit approved in September 1991 [ see p. 38439 ] . |
| 4 | The capture of Côte 304 represented the first breach in the ‘ Line of Resistance ’ that Pétain had prescribed on taking up his command , and with it the stage was set for the final German attack on the Mort Homme , with the elder Falkenhayn once again in command . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Kuntze was to take over the company 's chairmanship from Jurgen Hippenstiel-Imhausen , who resigned in March and who on May 10 became the first person to be arrested over the affair . |
| 7 | Hudson , 26 became the first player to score a century on Test debut for South Africa |
| 8 | President Mitterrand of France on April 18-19 made the first state visit to Romania by a west European head of state since the fall of Ceausescu in December 1989 . |
| 9 | HM The Queen visited the site in 1979 to inaugurate the first evaporator . |
| 10 | On April Fool 's Day 1963 came the first issue of Oz . |
| 11 | The budget for 1991 allocates the first tranche of the ¥455 trillion ( $3.4 trillion ) that the government has agreed to spend on roads , railways , airports , housing , drains and other public works over the coming decade . |
| 12 | 1991 saw the first time that the Open School was able to run a summer holiday programme which culminated in the performance of dance , music and drama work done by the children . |
| 13 | Iceland on Jan. 31 became the first country to resume diplomatic recognition of Lithuania as an independent state . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Armistice day 1921 saw the first poppy day appeal , sponsored by the British Legion . |
| 16 | AUGUST 2 1917 witnessed the first landing of an aircraft on a moving ship . |
| 17 | Suppose also that the company estimates that it will cost 200,000 to produce the first unit and that , by watchful management , an 80 per cent learning rate will be achieved . |
| 18 | Merv Hughes hit an enormous six and Mark Taylor made 164 to become the first player to score 1,000 runs in the course of his first season of Tests , but Australia 's batsmen did not escape the day without damage from an attack weakened by injury to both its opening bowlers . |
| 19 | President Elias Hrawi , Prime Minister Umar Karami and the president of the National Assembly , Hussain al-Hussaini , visited Damascus on Oct. 17 to attend the first session of the Lebanese-Syrian Supreme Council . |
| 20 | At great councils of the Church at Piacenza and Clermont-Ferrand in 1095 Pope Urban II proclaimed the First Crusade . |
| 21 | However car 4 spent the First World War ferrying bread to the military camp at Squires Gate , for which it was fitted with a pair of side doors . |
| 22 | The war brought , however , a number of naval victories and 1740 saw the first performance of Rule Britannia , which soon acquired the status of a second national anthem . |
| 23 | HARPY and TRACE II took the first option . |
| 24 | On the 18th March 1884 appeared the first issue of a newspaper printed and published in Bishop 's Castle by Christopher Hughes , Market Place , Bishop 's Castle . |
| 25 | Campbell was totally influenced by the great Italian architect Palladio and in 1715 published the first volume of Vitruvius Britannicus . |
| 26 | 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 ’ . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Celebrations on Oct. 3 to mark the first anniversary of unification were marred by about 50 attacks on immigrants throughout the country , in which at least 25 people were injured . |
| 29 | Deputies from CSCE member states ( including the former Yugoslavia ) on July 3-5 attended the first meeting in Budapest of the CSCE parliamentary assembly established in April 1991 [ see p. 38171 ] . |
| 30 | On Aug. 27 , 1989 , the $150,000,000 UK television satellite Marco Polo 1 became the first satellite to be commercially launched from Cape Canaveral , by the US McDonell Douglas aircraft company which built the Delta 187 rocket carrying the satellite . |