Example sentences of "part in the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simon Conway Morris of Cambridge University , who played a big part in the first reinterpretation of the Burgess animals , thinks Wiwaxia has no living relatives , but is probably related to other fossils he and his colleagues have found in northern Greenland . |
| 2 | Ten teams took part in the first race in 1975 , and they all enjoyed themselves so they thought they would do it again the following year . |
| 3 | COMPETITORS from all over the country will take part in the first North Wales regional tennis centre wheelchair tennis tournament at Wrexham this week . |
| 4 | He has worked widely since then in theatre and television , playing Romeo at the Wolsey Theatre in Ipswich , Sebastian in Twelfth Night and a leading part in the first revival since the eighteenth century of Sir Courtly Nice , performed at the Young Vic in London and the Swan Theatre in Stratford . |
| 5 | INMATES of Risley remand centre have been invited to take part in the first recycling scheme of its kind in the country . |
| 6 | Stipe sings for the main part in the first person , though it 's unclear if he 's taking on a character or being genuinely autobiographical for the most part . |
| 7 | Disabled people from twenty one countries are taking part in the first wheelchair games of its kind . |
| 8 | The importance of the role she was now , willy-nilly , being forced to play in European affairs , in spite ( or perhaps because ) of her increasing weakness and inefficiency , is shown by the great though indirect and unsought significance of her part in the first partition of Poland ( see pp. 273ff ) . |
| 9 | He had n't been offered the part in the first place and was more than content in the role of Smee . |
| 10 | The EC commissioner for external affairs , Frans Andriessen , who took part in the first stage of the negotiations in New York last Friday , will report on progress to Community foreign ministers in Luxembourg today . |
| 11 | Ninety-two competitors took part in the first walk on Whit Monday the 1st June 1903 , one of the first all-amateur walking events to be held in England . |
| 12 | Serbia , which bad been semi-independent from 1817 and fully independent from 1878 , and which had played a considerable part in the First World War ( and suffered enormous losses ) , was the nucleus of the new state . |