Example sentences of "see the first [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could recall seeing the first black insect flying towards her and then she must have fainted . |
| 2 | With the academic year 1992/93 seeing the first full year of modularised courses at Napier , it was seen as an appropriate time to examine undergraduate , postgraduate , and HND courses in relation to the inclusion of enterprise/ transferable skills in course descriptors . |
| 3 | May 1992 sees the first Female Focus Exhibition . |
| 4 | A less glamorous version of its origin sees the first Manx cat as nothing more than a Manx sailor 's pet — a curiosity brought home after travels to the Orient . |
| 5 | Next year sees the first English Bar President of the Council of the Bars of Europe ( CCBE ) , . |
| 6 | Annual gate receipts rose during the period from £1,55 to £5,309 , and 1912 saw the first four-figure profit — just over £1,000 . |
| 7 | THE vote that gave the Democrats the White House and is expected to give them their tightest grip on Congress in decades also saw the first black woman elected to the Senate . |
| 8 | The presidential election of 1952 saw the first large-scale hiring of skilled advertising men to do the politicians ' persuading for them . |
| 9 | 1914 saw the first axiomatic declaration of exactly what constitutes a ring . |
| 10 | It saw the first public flotation of a building society , the first moves towards acquisition of a major bank , Girobank , by another society , some further widening of building society powers , a tendency for more societies to become ‘ tied agents ’ of insurance companies and further excursions by societies into the wider field of financial services . |
| 11 | In the Montagu declaration we see the first official glimmer of an idea which exercised a vast and perversely inspirational influence on the process of imperial disintegration : the idea of the multiracial Commonwealth . |