Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Early PC-based software was both expensive and fairly awful ; Studio Software , who produced the first desktop publishing program for the PC recently went to the wall as a direct result of being unable to keep up with the new leaders .
2 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 .
3 De Maizière was replaced as deputy leader on Sept. 23 by Angela Merkel , the ( East German ) Minister for Women and Youth Affairs in the federal government , who became the first woman in the CDU leadership .
4 The first Formula One World Championship race took place at Silverstone on 13 May 1950 and was won by Italian Giuseppe Farina , who became the first World Champion four months later .
5 His relief was tinged with sadness at the defeat of his close colleague and Tory party chairman , Mr Chris Patten , who became the first Cabinet Minister since 1979 to lose his seat .
6 Peter Reid , the Manchester City manager , yesterday tried to take some of the heat out of the aftermath of the derby by defending Pointon , who became the first player to be sent off in this series of fixtures since 1974 .
7 ( Islip , Long Island in the U.S. , was founded by the son of a Northamptonshire emigrant who became the first mayor of New York City in 1671 . )
8 Sohail the hero : the batting highlight of the match was the brisk 205 from the 25-year-old opener from Lahore , Aamir Sohail , who became the first left-hander to hit a Test double-century for Pakistan
9 Draper was an English scientist who became the first president of the American Chemical Society .
10 Looking on is his Surrey team-mate Alec Stewart , who became the first Englishman to carry his bat at Lord 's Test during the second innings
11 Thanks to Vo Quy — who led the first team of Vietnamese scientists south of the seventeenth parallel to investigate the environmental damage caused during the US/Vietnam war — almost every student in Vietnam plants one to three trees per year as part of the school curriculum .
12 Also attending the service were the Duke of York , Prince Edward , who read the first lesson , the Princess Royal , her new husband Commander Tim Laurence and her children Peter and Zara .
13 It was Geoff Yeadon and Oliver Statham who made the first connection in the jigsaw , 12 years ago .
14 Who made the first move ?
15 It was Janice who made the first move to end the evening .
16 It was a woman who got the first question in , her voice rising shrilly above the others .
17 Alcuin , the man who described the first attack , thought they were terrifying and wicked .
18 It was the visitors who created the first half 's best chance through their lively striker , Marshall .
19 They do n't even know who built the first engine ?
20 The Lawns at Broseley , the home of John Wilkinson who built the first iron bridge , now houses a large impressive collection of English pottery and porcelain .
21 In rural areas only about 6 per cent of the children who entered the first grade completed the primary cycle , and half these entrants dropped out after the first grade .
22 Stephen is a boy of mixed Jamaican and St Vincentian parentage , born and raised only a few miles away from the white girl who provided the first narrative .
23 My father , who spent the first quarter of a century in Chile , was awarded the Order of Merit .
24 Cathy Gerring , who pocketed the first prize of £500,000 in the recent World Championship of Women 's Golf at the exquisite Urban Cely course near Paris , is a golfer apart , a player who sparkles with or without her clubs .
25 On the second day of the Workshop those who attended the first meeting will return to participate in activities which will assist in preparing for their own course validation event .
26 A SMALL point on your book review of Durham : Birth of a First-Class County : had Ralph Dellor consulted the club or been at the match , he would have noted that it was Paul Parker who took the first ball from Oxford University pace bowler Michael Jeh , and not John Glendenen .
27 Surprisingly it was the student who took the first frame , managing a break of 54 .
28 10 years ago CLIFF Michelmore , who introduced the first Holiday ‘ 69 in would you believe ? 1969 was still at the helm of Holiday ‘ 82 .
29 Your conductors ' competitions brought on some new talent , beginning with the Finnish conductor Okko Kamu , who won the first competition in 1969 ; and you 've been a great help to most of the new generation of top conductors — Abbado , Ozawa , and so on .
30 Dutchman Marcel Albers , who won the first race at Donington , compatriot Oswaldo Negri and Belgian Mikke Van Hool were all slightly quicker in testing during the week so de Ferran will need to be at peak to clinch top spot , as he twice did for Edenbridge Racing last year .
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