Example sentences of "[num] [pron] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1933 he made the first crossing of the uninhabited interior wilderness of Iceland with a wheeled vehicle — his bicycle . |
| 2 | Indeed the authorities became so concerned that in 1935 she became the first cartoon character to be censored . |
| 3 | In 1986 who became the first Gloucestershire player since 1966 to play for England ? ( 6 ) 4 . |
| 4 | In 1904 they opened the first Poor Law farm colony , in Essex , to provide work training for the unemployed . |
| 5 | As a director of Routledge , he took an interest in what I was writing , and in 1946 he commissioned the first book I was to produce on philosophy , The Approach to Metaphysics . |
| 6 | In 1859 he built the first of his 2–2–2 type express locomotives , two of which took part in the railway ‘ race ’ between east- and west-coast companies from London to Edinburgh in 1888 , and in 1863 he developed the 2–4–0 type for use over more heavily graded routes . |
| 7 | In 1870 he gave the first authentic account of amoebae from the human intestine . |
| 8 | Cooke 's interest in fungi began while he was teaching , and in 1862 he published the first popular book on toadstools , A Plain and Easy Account of British Fungi . |
| 9 | Early in 1938 two summations of his work were published : Essays Ancient and Modern in March and , a month later , Collected Poems 1909–1935 which included the first publication of " Burnt Norton " . |
| 10 | In 1922 it planned the first of a series of national hunger marches which were to become the NUWCM 's principal contribution to the inter-war years . |
| 11 | In 1981 he launched the first of a series of closely watched consumer surveys . |
| 12 | In 1928 she became the first person ever to swim the Straits of Gibraltar ( in 12 hrs. 50 min. ) , braving the perils of whirlpools , currents , and sharks . |
| 13 | In 1928 she published the first general history of the women 's suffrage movement , The Cause , and in 1931 Millicent Garrett Fawcett . |
| 14 | By 8.00 I felt the first slight warning tickle . |
| 15 | In 1887 she became the first and only woman on the school board at Rotherham . |
| 16 | In 1698 , Martin published ‘ A Late Voyage to St. Kilda , the Remotest of all the Hebrides ’ , and five years later in 1703 there appeared the first edition of ‘ A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland ’ . |
| 17 | In 1973 he became the first person to be Knighted for his contribution to conservation . |
| 18 | In February 1987 it became the first fluoroquinolone to be marketed in the UK under the tradename Ciproxin . |
| 19 | Before he was 19 , Gauss had constructed , by straightedge and compass , a regular 17-gon , the first " new " constructible regular polygon for 2000 years , and in 1799 he gave the first satisfactory proof ( where Newton , Euler and Lagrange had failed ) of the fundamental theorem of algebra ( 4.8.1 ) . |
| 20 | Under the reforms of Josef II , when the Jesuit Order was abolished , the Clementinum became a seminary under the supervision of the archbishop of Prague , and in 1799 it became the first Academy of Fine Arts . |
| 21 | In 1891 he gained the first Whitworth exhibition awarded to a member of the Horwich Mechanics ' Institute . |
| 22 | Sheltering abroad , in 1558 he wrote The First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Woman — the ‘ regiment ’ actually meaning a regimen or government by women , which he condemned as ‘ a thing most contrarious ’ to God 's ‘ revealed will and approved ordinance ’ . |
| 23 | On March 23 she made the first appointments to a new government . |
| 24 | Near the end of 1982 they achieved the first interesting number of eight fusions per muon , where the energy released exceeds the rest energy of a muon . |
| 25 | 13–6–1866 They appointed the first Sabbath in August for the dispensation of the Lord 's Supper and remonstrated with the Kirk Session in Kilmeny who had chosen the same day for their celebration . |
| 26 | In 1855 he built the first section of the Llanidloes- Newton line , and later extended his operations all over Wales . |
| 27 | On page two I think the first thing was , was the erm results of the air conditioning on Wellesey House is still omitted . |
| 28 | In 1938 we began the first School Broadcasts for the province , and I was in charge of production . |
| 29 | Between April 1953 and March 1954 they produced the first five issues , meeting in Layton 's home , occasionally at Rosengarten 's , to discuss The Things That Matter — their latest poetry and material offered by others , not infrequently being led in song by Leonard on his ever-present guitar . |
| 30 | In 1956 he became the first consultant neurologist to the RVI , establishing a department which achieved an international reputation . |