Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pron] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first multiparty elections since 1968 , Frederick Chiluba , leader of the Movement for Multiparty Democracy ( MMD ) , was elected President on Oct. 31 , ending the 27-year rule of Kenneth Kaunda , who led Zambia to independence and became its first President in October 1964 [ see p. 20373 ] . |
| 2 | With the incorporation of the town in 1900 he was elected to the council , and became its first mayor . |
| 3 | St Agnes introduced the Poor Clares into the Convent of St Saviour and became their first abbess in 1235 . |
| 4 | Brown Brothers Harriman analyst William Milton has followed Dan Mandresh and downgraded his rating on IBM Corp and lowered his first quarter and full-year 1993 earnings estimates : he cut his rating to sell from neutral and lowered his first quarter forecast to a loss of $0.72 per share from a loss of $0.45 , and his full-year estimate to a loss of $1.10 from a profit of $0.35 a share ; he said he made the changes because of sharper than previously expected declines in IBM 's mainframe business and more severe than expected pricing pressures ; he also said that a noticeable deterioration in employee productivity contributed to his revised outlook — productivity has fallen given declining employee morale as IBM struggles to restructure ; ‘ There 's very little a new chief executive can do initially that 's not already being done , ’ he added . |
| 5 | Brown Brothers Harriman analyst William Milton has followed Dan Mandresh and downgraded his rating on IBM Corp and lowered his first quarter and full-year 1993 earnings estimates : he cut his rating to sell from neutral and lowered his first quarter forecast to a loss of $0.72 per share from a loss of $0.45 , and his full-year estimate to a loss of $1.10 from a profit of $0.35 a share ; he said he made the changes because of sharper than previously expected declines in IBM 's mainframe business and more severe than expected pricing pressures ; he also said that a noticeable deterioration in employee productivity contributed to his revised outlook — productivity has fallen given declining employee morale as IBM struggles to restructure ; ‘ There 's very little a new chief executive can do initially that 's not already being done , ’ he added . |
| 6 | Born in 1908 , Maitre Lelièpvre has been drawing horses for most of his life , and sold his first painting at the age of eight . |
| 7 | The RIBA/ARCUK Joint Visiting Panel took over the task of visiting UK schools of architecture in October at the beginning of the 1992–3 academic session and made its first visit to the University of East London . |
| 8 | The prototype was converted from a production KI.107 and made its first flight over thirty years age , in December 1960 . |
| 9 | At the specific request from an Australian customer , the only low pressure tyre CC version for operation from unprepared landing strips was manufactured , and made its first flight in April 67 . |
| 10 | Musically the interim was not unproductive : he compiled several keyboard concertos from other composers ' music collected in Paris and London , and made his first foray into vocal music , with a couple of Italian arias ; he composed a comedy in Latin for Salzburg university entitled Apollo et Hyacinthus , a piece of Passion music , and the first act of a sacred Singspiel , Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots , written in collaboration with Joseph Haydn 's younger brother Michael ( who since 1762 had been music director to the Archbishop of Salzburg ) and another local composer , Jacob Adlgasser . |
| 11 | When Aimar v , Viscount of Limoges , suspected that his wife and his uncle Archambaud of Comborn were having an affair he went to war against his uncle and made his first attack without warning . |
| 12 | Harry was a little diffident to begin with , but he soon settled down and made his first appearance for Palace at outside-right when he came into the side for season 1922–23 on 30 September at Leicester . |
| 13 | Having done my first sound broadcast in the Forties and made my first television appearance in 1952 , I can remember when Lord Reith 's belief that broadcasting 's prime function was to inform , to entertain and give all sides a chance to state their case , still reigned . |
| 14 | This did not get under way until 1943 , took in the first students in 1944 and produced its first teachers in 1946 . |
| 15 | He set up his soap works in 1855 and produced his first bar of mottled soap in 1857 . |
| 16 | He was eventually put in charge of the twenty people comprising the explosives technical services department and got his first taste of real management . |
| 17 | Then I splashed out and got my first Alembic — cost me £890 in 1980 , serious cash . |
| 18 | He looked up and caught his first glimpse of Celia through the beads . |
| 19 | ‘ A year after we started off , we purchased some ground and built our first accident repair centre . |
| 20 | He started his own practice in the Isle of Man and built his first house , half-timbered and tile-hung , in the town of Douglas in 1892 . |
| 21 | He was discharged in August 1943 and dedicated his first volume of short stories ( The Stuff to Give the Troops , 1944 ) to Hart-Davis , by then adjutant of the 6th battalion Coldstream Guards , who had saved him from a court martial . |
| 22 | In Hungary , the process industry looked to us for safety advice and provided our first contract in Eastern Europe . |
| 23 | Having become interested in aviation as a teenager , he worked his way up from the workshop floor and designed his first glider in 1924 while still only eighteen , following this with his first powered aircraft , the VVA–3 , two years later . |
| 24 | I rang and told her first thing yesterday morning . |
| 25 | I had to learn and to make many new things , and it was a year before I cooked and ate my first bread . |
| 26 | This is one of the best plays to have come out of Russia since Chekhov and received its first performance in this country in Oxford in 1966 , with Judi Dench and Ian McKellen in the cast . |
| 27 | Three of her works were played , one of them , a Trombone Concerto was commissioned by Paragon and received its first performance . |
| 28 | Born in Edinburgh , Allan Ramsay was precociously talented and received his first commissions while still a teenager . |
| 29 | He made his League debut against Arsenal at Hillsborough in November 1991 and scored his first goal for the club in the third round FA Cup victory over Preston . |
| 30 | Remarkably , Fender was not naturally right-handed , and scored his first boyhood century as a left-hander . |