Example sentences of "first [noun sg] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BRITAIN delivered its third significant blow in two days to the world champions , Pakistan , when Mark Maclean put the seventh-seeded Umar Hayat Khan out of the World Open here yesterday , and became the first Scotsman ever to reach the quarter-finals . |
| 2 | One way around this particular problem would be to adapt the approach recommended by the Canadian Sentencing Commission ( 1997 ) , in which guide-lines are used in the first instance simply to indicate offences for which the presumptive sentence would ( or would normally ) involve a community sanction , and those which would ( or would normally ) involve a custodial penalty . |
| 3 | He was also commissioned to photograph in the Crimea during the war ; he was the first photographer successfully to photograph a war . |
| 4 | Philip Larkin had already published two novels — Jill ( 1946 ) and A Girl in Winter ( 1947 ) — before he established himself in 1955 , with The Less Deceived , as the best poet of his generation ; and John Osborne 's first play ever to reach the public theatre , Look Back in Anger ( 1956 ) , was written by an actor untouched by academia who had been writing for several years and a stranger to all of them . |
| 5 | As he puts it , with a certain dispassionate irony , in a letter of early 1870 : " I observe how my philosophical , moral and scholarly endeavours strive towards a single goal and that I may perhaps become the first philologist ever to achieve wholeness . " |
| 6 | That last , familiar , word was used by Nietzsche himself precisely in this context and at this time : " I observe how my philosophical , moral and scholarly endeavours strive towards a single goal and that I may perhaps become the first philologist ever to achieve wholeness . " |
| 7 | For some adults cohabitation before marriage is unthinkable ( in Asian families , for example ) ; for others the idea of marriage without first living together to get to know each other is equally unthinkable . |
| 8 | He said Unprofor would send bulldozers and six dumper trucks loaded with gravel at first light today to plug the hole and clear the road . |
| 9 | The teams made Darlington the first club ever to collect medals in the championship in the same season . |
| 10 | Bill Clinton had come to their shrine on Memorial Day , the first president ever to do so . |
| 11 | This must be the first review ever to end with a load of balls ! |
| 12 | Losses of European forests due to air pollution are running at US$29 billion per year , according to the first study ever to attempt such an estimate of pollution 's financial impact on tree reserves . |
| 13 | Car 2 was presented to the National Tramway Museum at Crich in 1963 , where it became the first car there to move under power in June 1964 . |
| 14 | Among them , the first child ever to read The Hobbit ; the son of the publisher Stanley Unwin , who was paid a shilling to read the book and say whether it should be published . |
| 15 | Marco Polo seems to have been the first European actually to have made it there and back . |
| 16 | You think I 'm the first girl ever to meet a man in secret ? |
| 17 | His briskness of pace off the pitch became legendary , and he is said to have been the first bowler deliberately to have deployed the seam in his technique . |
| 18 | Erm well the the first point probably to make is that this er the manual that er Mr refers to was only published in June of this year er and clearly in terms of the information that er has been put in the statement , that was based upon the previous way of assessing the impact . |
| 19 | In Makassar harbour they saw the great black-sailed trading schooners of the piratical Bugis tribe , with whom , just 120 years previously , the remarkable naturalist-explorer Alfred Russel Wallace had sailed on his historic odyssey through the Spice Islands to become the first Westerner ever to see alive the Greater Bird of Paradise . |
| 20 | They were all in a meeting , and they did n't quite know how to deal with me — I was the first celebrity ever to have gone . |
| 21 | They had become the first team ever to escape relegation from the top division not having won an away game . |
| 22 | Think , son , you 'll be the first actor ever to speak the lines ! ’ |
| 23 | Kept in training as a four-year-old , Pebbles won the Trusthouse Forte Mile at Sandown Park , was second in the Prince of Wales 's Stakes at Royal Ascot , and then became the first filly ever to win the Eclipse , beating subsequent Arc winner Rainbow Quest by two lengths . |
| 24 | The first person clearly to express this idea was the German physiologist Hermann von Helmholtz , who wrote in 1866 that to see things is to form ‘ unconscious conclusions from analogy ’ : by an analogy he meant a pre-existing theory , or model , of what the world is like . |
| 25 | In 1928 she became the first person ever to swim the Straits of Gibraltar ( in 12 hrs. 50 min. ) , braving the perils of whirlpools , currents , and sharks . |
| 26 | She is very proud of being the first person ever to sit on her ; Pauline broke the pony and the two have done all the training since , with professional help in the later stages from instructor Mal Kendall . |
| 27 | Away from his business , Christopher craved only peace and solitude , now shared with her — the first person ever to share it . |
| 28 | Not only was the Psittacidae the first volume ever to concentrate on a single species , it was , as Lear himself maintained , ‘ the first complete volume of coloured drawings of birds on so large a scale published in England , as far as I know — unless Audubon 's were previously engraved . ’ |
| 29 | Erm tt whether that 's appropriate , you know , I 'm thinking of it as a first appointment just to get a general picture whereas you might be coming back to stir his memory for referrals by saying er , you know , er you mentioned here you 're a member of the squash club , do you remember I said I 'd be looking for introductions , maybe we 'll learn whether at the beginning of the second appointment you jog the memory there er you know in other words what I 'm do doing is keeping that in my mind , that you are remembering the squash club or whatever club it may be and use that later , although I did n't er elaborate on it at that , that er because I think you can go off at a tangent |
| 30 | Lawrence , 41 , who had been elected to the legislature in 1986 after an outstanding academic career , was the first woman ever to hold the office of Australian state premier . |