Example sentences of "[coord] the first [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were also used to power the first oil-engined tractor and the first practical oil-engined locomotive , both in 1896 . |
| 2 | It was first improved into Britain two years ago , and the first Norwegian Red crosses were born here last year . |
| 3 | The closing date for entries is 14 January 1993 , after which a draw will be held and the first three correct entries to be drawn will receive the prize of a year 's free Friends membership plus the book of your choice . |
| 4 | Christian roadblocks were therefore set up at the eastern end of the Ring motorway and the first 40 Muslim men to arrive at the Christian checkpoint , some of them travelling with their wives and children in their family cars to homes in east Beirut , were taken beneath the overpass and had their throats cut . |
| 5 | Collections for medical supplies were also undertaken and the first British Medical Unit of doctors and nurses , organized by the Spanish Medical Aid Committee , left for Spain as early as August 1936 . |
| 6 | A major new book is Jelena Hahl-Koch 's Kandinsky ( £75 ) with 420 illustrations and incorporating many works only known after the opening up of the old USSR in 1989 and the first Kandinsky retrospective in his homeland . |
| 7 | England and Spain had had playhouses open to a paying public since the 1570s , France from the beginning of the seventeenth century , but the first such public theatre in Italy was opened only in 1637 . |