Example sentences of "this [verb] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , when the first priest arrived , he wanted to live in Tala-Tala near the kirk , so this became the first hospital , and this , ’ he almost kicked the battered old trunk , ‘ became the first filing cabinet . |
| 2 | The Labour Party claims that this represents the first stage in a policy of full market rents . |
| 3 | The discoverer — reputedly Ingolfur Arnarson after whom a fine peak near Þingvellir and Ingólfshöfdi is named — called the country ‘ Iceland ’ because of the ice he found there ; this created the first half-truth about the islands of the north . |
| 4 | This establishes the first part of the theorem . |
| 5 | for direct processing the track index does not make it clear which records are in overflow and which in the prime data area ; this prevents the first overflow record being retrieved as quickly as is achieved in the two-entry index system — at least while it is the only overflow record . |
| 6 | This meant the first change of name for the young Michael Smith ; he became known as Ingram , and there was no love lost between him and his stepfather . |
| 7 | 18–7 James McDonald , a servant at Islay House , asked for baptism for his child and this brought the first case of antenuptial fornication . |
| 8 | In effect this represented the first retreat from Marxism 's prohibition on private ownership of the means of production since the abandonment in 1928 of Lenin 's New Economic Policy ( NEP ) . |
| 9 | This represented the first time that all five states had agreed on all aspects of ending the Cambodian conflict . |
| 10 | This represented the first acknowledgment by the government that a rebellion was taking place . |
| 11 | This provokes the first nation into developing a 10-megaton bomb , which in turn provokes the second into making a 20-megaton bomb , and so on . |
| 12 | From this follows the first point : the existence of illegal concert parties is enormously hard to prove . |
| 13 | When Norman recruited Sir Ian McGregor , this marked the first time in Britain that a nationalised industry chief had been appointed through executive search . |
| 14 | This marked the first launch of its kind in China . |
| 15 | today this becomes the first railway shadow franchise , its operations hived off into a separate company ready to be sold . |