Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only one but both his elder sons did so , and thereby became the first Jewish officers to be commissioned . |
| 2 | Carol Moseley Braun won in Illinois and thereby became the first black woman , and only the second black person , to serve in the Senate . |
| 3 | After moving to Willesden in north-west London he became the scourge of local boxers and eventually became the first black man to hold a British title when , in 1907 , he beat Curly Watson in the fourth of a scheduled twenty rounds to take the welterweight championship at the ‘ Wonderland ’ venue in the East End of London . |
| 4 | In a liberal democracy this needs to be scrutinized constantly , and herein lies the first problem for the researcher . |
| 5 | DEC specialist , $100m-a-year Micro Technology Inc , has acquired five-year-old SF2 Corporation , the Sunnyvale , California-based firm that pioneered and commercially shipped the first fault tolerant disk array storage device known as RAID 5/6 . |
| 6 | In these circumstances it seemed to Napoleon III that the Entente needed a boost and so came the first essay in Court diplomacy , the state visit to England in 1855 at the request of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert . |
| 7 | Hot enough to sit out in the Piazza studded with big brown and green palms against the rose-coloured stucco of the buildings and perhaps try a first ricotta ice-cream . |
| 8 | She succeeded Leif Haraldseth and thus became the first woman to hold the post . |
| 9 | ‘ Just the job , ’ thought the enthusiastic Gary , and thus became the first person in history to attempt to convert a quartet of Jehovah 's Witness . |
| 10 | The ‘ rural method ’ entails no separate second fermentation ; it is merely a continuation of the first process , the wines being bottled before it terminates and thus allowing the first fermentation to continue in the bottle . |
| 11 | By taking a peerage he ruined the political career of his elder son , who had become Unionist MP for Plymouth in 1910 and was elevated to the Lords in succession to his father in 1919 , but also created the opportunity for his daughter-in-law , Nancy ( later Viscountess Astor , q.v. ) to win her husband 's seat at a by-election , and thus become the first woman to sit in the House of Commons . |
| 12 | For it was there that Beethoven had enhanced the German grandeur of his music with the words of Schiller 's Ode to Joy and thus took the first step towards reintegrating poetry and music as equal partners in a new and sublime unity . |
| 13 | He did so successfully in 1948 , outpointing Vince Hawkins at Birmingham and thus becoming the first black champion to be recognized by the BBBC . |
| 14 | They bought a garage at Caterham from Anthony Crook , who still runs the Bristol Car Company , and began by carrying out ‘ all the usual garage things ’ , and soon became the first Lotus agent when the manufacturer began to expand . |
| 15 | He set off for Ayr yesterday with five more under his belt and promptly won the first three races , two in photos . |
| 16 | George Woodger , an inside or centre-forward of the highest quality , played for the Palace in our earliest years and quickly became the first Palace ‘ superstar ’ — and that in an age when today 's publicity was unthinkable . |
| 17 | This chapter is written to help the reader to a more intimate knowledge of his law library , and also to guide the first steps of the research worker . |
| 18 | Bede not only compiled a detailed account of this important Synod but in another of his treatises , De temporum ratione ( ‘ On the Reckoning of Time ’ ) , written in 725 and generally regarded as his scientific masterpiece , he computed Easter tables for the period 532 to 1063 and also made a first attempt at a general chronology of the world down to the reign of the contemporary Byzantine emperor , Leo the Isaurian . |
| 19 | When the number of steps to be executed is equal to the number of deceleration delay circuits the downcounter produces a pulse , which switches off the clock and also triggers the first deceleration delay , T1' . |
| 20 | Problems with a flaked bone in his foot , a broken toe and then hamstring and rib injuries meant that McLeish played only seven times for Aberdeen last season and also missed the first 11 matches of this one . |
| 21 | In return his father rages at him for his inability to become a ‘ real ’ man , and demands as the only acceptable proof that Lucio has regained his masculinity that he attack the very next man he sees and sexually assault the first woman ( iv . |
| 22 | The second generation of machines will be much more complex than the first , for it will include machines capable of repairing and even reproducing the first generation ! |
| 23 | No , I just came over fields , I went along and followed a dyke , I turned left at the cafe , and then followed the first I saw going up . |
| 24 | He saw himself look back along the train and then remember the first premonition . |
| 25 | ‘ And then came the first tragedy . |
| 26 | And then came the first Wednesday in October — the day of the Woman 's Institute bush walk . |
| 27 | Kept in training as a four-year-old , Pebbles won the Trusthouse Forte Mile at Sandown Park , was second in the Prince of Wales 's Stakes at Royal Ascot , and then became the first filly ever to win the Eclipse , beating subsequent Arc winner Rainbow Quest by two lengths . |
| 28 | Make sure that the program does not end up here accidentally and then define the first procedure . |
| 29 | For feasibility of TP , we require requirements and availabilities to match : and then drop the first equation . |
| 30 | Goleta , California-based , SmartStar Corporation , the company that years ago put the first fourth generation language interface on a relational database machine and then created the first VAX/VMS 4GL , has popped up with SmartStar Vision , a new object-oriented application development environment . |