Example sentences of "the first successful " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even so , it was the first successful attempt in this genre because it gave its performers an opportunity to reveal their talents as actor-dancers . |
| 2 | The first successful flour-manufacturing plant using only rollers was the Manchester mill established by Henry Simon in 1878 . |
| 3 | He built , to his own design , the steamship Robert Fulton , which made the first successful ocean voyage off the east coast of America , sailing from New York to Havana . |
| 4 | An idea of the complexity of this process can be gauged from the events which led to the first successful casting of iron cannon in Sussex , at Buxted in 1543 . |
| 5 | BDO Seidman has won what is believed to be the first successful countersuit by an auditor against a former client . |
| 6 | It was not the first African paper , although nowadays some Tanzanians think that it was ; nevertheless it is the only one whose direct descendants are still in existence , and may be regarded as the first successful , viable paper ( that term has to be used in a relative sense ) edited and produced by Africans . |
| 7 | This ex 4 Squadron machine carried-out the first successful laser guided bomb attack on Tumbledown , flown by W/C Squire , during the Falklands campaign in 1982 . |
| 8 | OXFORD 'S David Penney was spot-on after 16 minutes with the first successful penalty of the season against Bristol Rovers . |
| 9 | The traditional bloom process was still capable of meeting all needs , for a negligible outlay ; the exotic indirect process had been introduced as an act of state policy simply in order to make cannons , the need for which had been proved by the effectiveness of French artillery — against the English themselves — in the wars of the fifteenth century ; Newbridge , where the first successful gun had been cast in 1509 , was Crown property . |
| 10 | The first successful self-filling pen was the Conklin : it had a rubber sac , which was squeezed by a bar attached to a crescent of metal protruding through the side of the pen . |
| 11 | I believe the Norwegian explorer Amundsen was the first successful explorer to transit the North West Passage with a 50 tonne fishing boat , taking three years and finally reaching the Pacific in 1906 . |
| 12 | The November 1972 decision by the French government to invite its European partners to develop a launcher , the L-35 , took seven years to produce the first successful Ariane launch , on 24 December 1979 . |
| 13 | The principles and example of the Revolution helped to inspire the first successful slave revolt in the Caribbean in Haiti , as well as the political independence movements of South America . |
| 14 | Morgan , and one a German , Georg Siemens — put together the French theory of entrepreneurial banking and the English theory of commercial banking to create the first successful modern banks , J.P . |
| 15 | The whole problem was compounded by the fact that the first successful desktop publishing system was based on the Macintosh ; a computer designed to be easy to use and , therefore , give the feeling of rapid achievement . |
| 16 | Rudyerd was the builder of the first successful sea-rock lighthouse in the world . |
| 17 | This was probably the first successful application of the crank to a steam engine in order to produce rotary motion . |
| 18 | The 40th anniversary of the first successful attempt on Chomolungma — the Sherpa name for Everest — has seen a glut of books on the subject . |
| 19 | John Pilmay 's glasshouse at Silkstone may have been the first successful venture in the district . |
| 20 | We report the first successful treatment with recombinant tPA ( rtPA ) in a 4-year-old girl with HUS . |
| 21 | The initial prosecution was brought by Greenpeace , and was the first successful private prosecution of a company under the 1989 Water Act . |
| 22 | The first successful candidates for the Medau Bronze Award were all pupils at Warwick Park School , Peckham , S.E. London . |