Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] first [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | His concerns are moral and religious , and in certain respects , therefore , although they appear to be out of line with the literary culture of Sidonius and his sixth-century followers , they do look back to the moral response which met the first wave of the barbarian invasions . |
| 2 | In October he passed the first part of the examination for ordination , and afterwards could not understand how he passed . |
| 3 | On 2 November , two Chambers of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation passed the first reading of a draft law on export and import of works of art . |
| 4 | The waves seemed to increase in size as we passed the first section of headland , continuing to smash with awesome power to our right , too close to our right ! |
| 5 | Thérèse no longer shared the first job of the day with her cousin . |
| 6 | Opposition parties boycotted the first day of the budget session of the Lok Sabha on Feb. 21 , and two state governors were replaced earlier in the month , in connection with the decision to impose president 's rule in Tamil Nadu in late January [ see p. 37964 ] . |
| 7 | Ben made the first on-sight of Psycho ( ) and followed it up with on-sights of Genesis ( ) , Rainbow Wall ( ) , Your mother , Monument and Anarchiste ( all ) with Mark sharing the honours on Monument . |
| 8 | On Fuar Tholl , Wilson and Niall freed the superb Tholl Gate in good condition at V. On Sgurr a'Chaorachian 's north-west buttresses , the chossy summer line Jupiter , a fine but rarely frozen 1200ft I/V , was climbed by Brian Davison and I. We also climbed Eastern Promise , a very steep but co-operative V on the eastern Ramparts of Coire Mhic Fhearchair and made the first ascent of the West-Central Wall by an even steeper line based on Mistral ( VI ) . |
| 9 | The exceptionally strong team , which included Mick Fowler — with whom Saunders made the first ascent of the ravishing Golden Pillar of Spantik — Caradog Jones and Steve Sustad , had hoped for an ascent of the mountain 's South East Spur — a 9,000 foot mega-Walker Spur . |
| 10 | A Frenchman , E.A. Martel , made the first descent of Gaping Gill nearly a hundred years ago in 23 minutes using caving ladders ; the petrol-driven winch drops visitors in less than 90 seconds ! |
| 11 | In 1555 Primož Trubar made the first translation of the New Testament into Slovene and in 1584 a Slovene grammar was produced . |
| 12 | In 1933 he made the first crossing of the uninhabited interior wilderness of Iceland with a wheeled vehicle — his bicycle . |
| 13 | We survived the Thirties and the war , we sold successfully up to 1987 ( a flourish of porcelain animals and birds sold out 90 per cent before the opening party , immediately after Black Monday in the City ) ; even in 1991 we had secured a collection which made the first half of the year look profitable . |
| 14 | He made the first recording of the human electrocardiogram in 1887 , an important advance which , in other hands , had widespread applications in medicine . |
| 15 | The civil servants who drafted the first version of the Bill , the Green Book , were not united on any issue but the simple one that there needed to be reform at all . |
| 16 | She read the first page of a review copy of the new novel by a Royal Shakespeare Company actor and put it down again when she realized she had n't taken in a single word . |
| 17 | Detective Inspector Milsom said quietly , ‘ Because the doctor laid the first slice of the fillet — the piece that you do n't give to guests — to one side of the carving dish … |
| 18 | The Department of Education and Science therefore took over the enlarged responsibilities of the Ministry created by Butler in 1944 , and Quintin Hogg ( who had divested himself of his peerage in the hope of succeeding Macmillan as Prime Minister ) became the first Secretary of State . |
| 19 | In 1822 , eight years after Thomas Lord [ q.v. ] had moved his famous turf to its last resting place at St John 's Wood , Aislabie became the first secretary of the MCC , the first sign of any real formality of organization . |
| 20 | Several members of the Nemanjić dynasty founded monasteries , some became monks , and the pious St Sava , son of Stephen Nemanja , in 1219 became the first archbishop of an autocephalous church , freed from the jurisdiction of the Greek-led archbishopric of Ohrid . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Ordained deacon in 1875 , he became the first chaplain of Clifton College Mission . |
| 23 | He became the first editor of the Parents ' Association Newsletter , a valuable complement to the School Magazine . |
| 24 | He became the first Earl of Iveagh , and set up the Guinness and Iveagh Trusts which provided homes for the poor in Dublin and London , and made substantial contributions to Trinity College and Dublin hospitals . |
| 25 | President Havel of Czechoslovakia became the first head of state on July 19 to ratify the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe ( CFE ) , signed by the six Warsaw Pact and 16 NATO member countries in November 1990 [ see p. 37838 ] , and which entailed sharp reductions in troops , tanks and weaponry . |
| 26 | THE novelist VS Naipaul last night became the first winner of Britain 's biggest literary prize , worth £30,000 . |
| 27 | The pattern of Europe was squarely placed upon the city of Jerusalem when , in 1100 , Baldwin of Boulogne became the first King of Jerusalem . |
| 28 | Robert Bickerstaffe was the coxswain of the first Blackpool lifeboat for 23 years until he retired in 1887 , and one of his sons , John , became the first chairman of the Blackpool Tower Company — neatly linking the Institution with the title of the book ! |
| 29 | After William Morris 's death in 1896 , Benson also became the first chairman of William Morris & Co . |
| 30 | George Oldham became the first chairman of any region to serve a second term of office . |