Example sentences of "and [vb past] [conj] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1975 , Mr Heath , as Leader , accepted amended rules which had been drawn up under Lord Home 's chairmanship and announced that the first ballot would be held on 4 February 1975 ( the Party , of course , then being in opposition ) . |
| 2 | Mendel crossed tall peas with short peas and found that the first generation were always tall . |
| 3 | Ornithologists gave the bird a Christian foundation and believed that the first mute swans were brought to Great Britain by the Crusaders from Cyprus in 1192 . |
| 4 | He was happy and relieved that the first part of the mowing was completed without any breakage . |
| 5 | She seated herself at the desk , relocated a floral display and smiled as the first patient walked into the room . |
| 6 | The hon. Member for Londonderry , East quoted the experts waste recovery association and said that the first priority should be waste minimisation . |
| 7 | However , not much in the way of working-class housing was constructed on the bank tops until the 1850s , when housing development began in earnest and continued until the First World War with the construction of ‘ By-Law ’ housing by builders of a variety of scales but always using land ‘ developed ’ by large-scale investors . |
| 8 | Clare watched her sobbing , and waited until the first violence of her emotion had passed . |