Example sentences of "was [verb] [to-vb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Walker found that if the BFP algorithm was altered to reflect the first three levels of SPAR 's ordering given above , correct results were obtained by eight of the 21 pronouns resolved correctly by Hobbs but incorrectly by the original BFP . |
| 2 | As soon as Leonard learned to talk he was taught to recite the first words of the Shema , the ‘ creed ’ of Judaism which originated on Sinai with Moses and is recited daily : |
| 3 | This feature was designed to cover the first flights of three Spitfires , during the time of its production that statistic changed to four ! |
| 4 | A 450bp SstI-XhoI probe C was used to detect the first intron HS sites 5A and 5B . |
| 5 | Dessie was used to promote the first Sunday meeting at Doncaster last month along with Red Rum . |
| 6 | She was damned if she was going to make the first move . |
| 7 | She was damned if she was going to make the first conciliatory move ; it would blunt the point of all she had done in Waterford . |
| 8 | The years in east London had given him an insight into the restricted lives of inner-city youth and when , in 1930 , he was invited to become the first national secretary of the newly formed Youth Hostels Association , he readily accepted . |
| 9 | By Spain , Jackie was beginning to feel the first twinges of the ulcer which was to hamper him for some time and keep him out of racing properly — and out of Belgium altogether — until July . |
| 10 | Griffin was fated to become the first ( and still the only ) bowler to achieve a hat-trick in a Lord 's Test and , in the same match , also to become the first man to be called for throwing in a Test in England . |
| 11 | When it was lifted out of the water it was found to have the first metre of the entire hull section missing . |
| 12 | The veteran Shankill councillor was set to become the first outgoing Lord Mayor in Belfast 's history not to be re-elected . |
| 13 | The presidium and committees were to be formed by December , and it was hoped to hold the first session of the Baltic Assembly by January 1992 . |
| 14 | This position was confirmed by the death of Yeats in 1939 , and it was an apt image of succession that Eliot was asked to give the first Yeats memorial lecture at Dublin in June 1940 . |
| 15 | Fuad Masum , a member of the political bureau of the PUK , was asked to form the first government . |
| 16 | In one home a somewhat unhappy new resident was allowed to spend the first week after admission dressed in her coat and sleeping in a chair . |
| 17 | Marion and her son had an agreeable high tea of poached eggs on toast , tea and cakes , went for a little walk along Old Compton Street and bought some gorgonzola and a pound of cherries before returning to the theatre for the evening show ; he was allowed to watch the first act from the wings before making his way back to Putney on his own . |
| 18 | With a six-inch reach advantage and making better use this time of his wicked left jab , Eubank was hoping to become the first to stop Gimenez in 45 fights . |
| 19 | Despite being outnumbered , unaware of the enemy 's dispositions and ignorant of the terrain , Hamilton was ordered to make the first British landings on 25 April at the southern tip of the peninsula near Cape Helles , while Anzac troops went ashore about 24km/15mls farther up the Aegean coast near Gaba Tepe . |
| 20 | His father , who works in Oman , was planning to catch the first flight home . |