Example sentences of "the [noun] first [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Italy declared war , in 1915 , on their northern neighbours , Austria , and in that same year , the Germans first used poison gas against French and British troops in the trenches at Ypres . |
| 2 | If the Goblin Fanatic manages to keep going then he quickly becomes disoriented , and will start to spin about the battlefield first one way and then another — which can be very disconcerting for all combatants ! |
| 3 | These engaged with a toothed wheel ( driven by a weight suspended from a drum ) which pushed the verge first one way and then the other , causing the foliot to oscillate . |
| 4 | The government first introduced legislation for the protection of ancient monuments in 1882 . |
| 5 | Since the Government first introduced road humps in 1981 , traffic engineers in too many councils have shown naked hostility to the idea of traffic calming and have completely set their face against the idea of road humps . |
| 6 | The world first caught sight of a bikini on 5 July 1946 , at a fashion show in Paris — where else . |
| 7 | Still the fairest one of all , Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is back and coming to theatres everywhere , Snow White is a beautiful , captivating and timeless of the day everyone fell in love with her , in the world first full length animated feature . |
| 8 | The Press first used computer methods to assist typesetting in 1970 , beginning with An Index to the Indo Aryan Language produced from an IBM computer in London University and using the Photon Lumizip 901 typesetter of Computaprint Limited . |