Example sentences of "made the [num ord] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was James Watt who made the first major improvements to the principles worked out by Newcomen . |
| 2 | The Norwegian biologist Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe made the first important observations on dominance , in the 1920s . |
| 3 | Two years and a historical event passed before Jack Elliot and Harold Farrington made the first commercial flights in Curtiss Jennies , on March 3 , 1926 . |
| 4 | We came together as a group almost by accident , but there was a convergence of our experiences and a symmetry to our ideas which made the first few months of our existence one of the most stimulating and electrifying of my life . |
| 5 | A pronouncement which proved to be news to his own personnel department when he made the first anguished inquiries . |