Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [verb] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | His research work has been published extensively and he recently led a team of representatives from Britain , Germany , Switzerland and the Netherlands to create the first European master 's degree in biotechnology . |
| 2 | If you do , make a third column and ask the LH to say the first and second words in the " different " column , then the first and third , etc. , as you tick off in the third column the ones that are now different from the new no. 1 . |
| 3 | Michel Laclotte 's farewell show as director of the Louvre includes the first sight of its eight newly cleaned Titians |
| 4 | Nottingham Forest agreed to sign the transfer form which makes the England star the first summer addition to Graeme Souness ' squad . |
| 5 | In the autumn of 1929 the USSR became the first state to break the illusions created by the Kellogg-Briand pact by unleashing its Special Far Eastern Army upon the Manchurian nationalists , who rashly thought they could put an end to Soviet control of the Chinese Eastern Railway . |
| 6 | The Zero Energy Thermonuclear Assembly ( Zeta ) started working at Harwell in August 1957 , just before the USSR launched the first Sputnik . |
| 7 | In the same area , tribes such as the Zuni and the Hopi built the first apartment houses in the USA . |
| 8 | Recall that in 1964 the developing countries used their voting power in the UN to call the first United Nations Conference of Trade and Development ( UNCTAD ) , because they had been frustrated by the rules operating in the GATT . |
| 9 | From the early 1890s the LCC built the first large modern housing estates in the country . |
| 10 | Though France is the primary target when the US hits the first $300 million worth of exports in December — America believes that they are behind the EC 's ‘ stubbornness ’ — Britain is next in the firing line . |
| 11 | The Ruth-W discharged the first 2,911 tonne cargo of 330 concrete coated steel pipes in less than a day , a cargo which was the forerunner of four shipments a week up to the end of the year , a total of 150,000 tonnes . |
| 12 | After being told that they could n't have children , the Smiths became the first to sign up for the ARC 1990 , which would form part of some long-term cruising . |
| 13 | Japan , Taiwan and the USA filled the first three places with other major investments coming from Hong Kong , Singapore and Australia . |
| 14 | In April 1972 the USSR and the USA signed the first Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty ( SALT 1 ) which put a " freeze " on a specified range of nuclear weapons . |
| 15 | At Norwich , where they lost 2–0 , the Cobblers played the first thirty minutes without their skipper McCartney — he had missed his train . |
| 16 | The process has , however , proved complex and slow and , in order to facilitate more rapid action , the EC adopted the first Mutual Recognition General Directive on December 1988 . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , the Mondeo becomes the first Ford to use a new electronically-controlled four-speed automatic transmission system . |
| 18 | Thus , not only will the Cavalier beat the Mondeo to become the first medium-sized saloon to boast one as standard but it will , Vauxhall stressed , have the bigger ( and by implication , better ) US-style bag rather than the smaller ( and , by implication , less effective ) Eurobag . |