Example sentences of "the first [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first Russian to mount the wall fell at once to a bullet from one of Thiercelin 's men , but now a slavonic deluge swamped the wall in a wave of green and grey , bayonets fixed , overran the Frenchmen on the terrace and began smashing at the door . |
| 2 | He returned to teaching in Catholic schools , being chosen as the first African to teach at a seminary for future priests near Elmina . |
| 3 | On the other hand , when ο is small enough to satisfy and putting the integral becomes In spectral terms the first integral corresponds to a narrow line of infinite amplitude centred on zero frequency and it provides the mean level or direct component of the signal over all time , . |
| 4 | Juraj Sizgorić ( Georgius Sisgoreus ) of Šibenik was the first Croatian to publish a volume of Latin verse , which appeared in Venice in 1477 . |
| 5 | He is alleged to have been one of the first Scots to take a degree at Cambridge . |
| 6 | For NDT Systems , the UTEA-1 represents the first in-house designed and manufactured ultrasonic products , which has been met with great enthusiasm . |
| 7 | He was the first Aboriginal to have mastered a western mode of painting and by 1940 his was a household name . |
| 8 | Omar Henry will be the first non-white to play Test cricket for South Africa after the team to face India was announced yesterday . |
| 9 | The first axillary articulates with the anterior notal process and is associated with the base of the subcostal vein . |
| 10 | The message from all three units is similar — hospital mortality from the first variceal bleed is not significantly greater in the elderly than in patients under 65 years . |
| 11 | This is consistent with the observation that while there is a significant mortality associated with the first variceal bleed ( 20% Child 's B patients ) survival rate from subsequent bleeds is substantially better . |
| 12 | It was later learned that this was a boat from the Guiding Lights which had brought her drugs ashore while the first inflatable ferried our food and fuel . |
| 13 | In many circumstances GPs are likely to be the first professional to decide a section is necessary and initiate the section assessment process subsequently involving ASWs . |
| 14 | Joe is , of course , best remembered as the first professional to overcome what had grown into a hoodoo . |
| 15 | THE first black to command a US space mission , Air Force Colonel Fred Gregory , led a team of specialists aboard the space shuttle , Discovery , last night , for a secret mission believed to be the deployment of a spy satellite . |
| 16 | He was not the first black to play in a tournament sponsored by the American P.G.A . |
| 17 | He was replaced by Willie L. Williams , a former Philadelphia police commissioner , who became the first black to head the LAPD and the first outsider to become chief for over 40 years . |
| 18 | A month before , Goma had been the first Romanian to try to imitate the initiative of the dissidents of Czechoslovakia . |
| 19 | Pena , 45 , served for two terms as Denver 's mayor , the first Hispanic to hold the post . |
| 20 | And none of the Sicilian tyrants before Agathokles ( end of the fourth century ; he was also the first Sicilian to call himself basileus , king ) put his own name on his coinage — contrast the HIΠ-issue of Hippias of Athens ( B. V. Head ( 1911 ) Historia numorum , Oxford , edn 2 , p. 377 ) , admittedly a coinage struck in exile at Sigeion , c.500 BC , but one which shows that the idea of a coin with an individual 's name on it was at least thinkable that early . |
| 21 | Masur became the first Australian to reach the quarter-finals here since 1988 in a match that featured one of the greatest comebacks in US Open history . |
| 22 | Couples 's task was made all the easier by a sad collapse of Craig Parry , who had led after three rounds but flinched , it seemed , from the prospect of becoming the first Australian to win the Masters . |
| 23 | By now John should have become the first 40-year-old to break four minutes for the mile . |
| 24 | Election of Salvador Allende , the first Marxist to win a presidential election in a Western-style democracy . |
| 25 | Wings ' ‘ Mull Of Kintyre ’ , issued in November , becomes the first single to sell over two million copies in the UK . |
| 26 | Do n't Sing was the first single to chart , though it was n't until When Love Breaks Down was released for the second time in 1985 that things really started to happen . |
| 27 | It also may be the first single to have celebrated the guitarist as icon and as such has been the target of many awful cover versions by people like Michael J Fox , who want to be guitar heroes . |
| 28 | Cavazos , the first Hispanic-American to serve in a US Cabinet , had been nominated in August 1988 by Bush 's predecessor , Ronald Reagan . |
| 29 | Art Basel reigns supreme among art fairs for a number of reasons : for the length it has been in existence ; for the fact that it was the first fair to introduce a selection committee ; and because of its timing . |
| 30 | Chicago-born Mainbocher had been the first American to open a couture house in Paris — the trousseau and wedding dress of Wallis Simpson were celebrated triumphs — and , based in New York from the early war years , remained the chosen couturier of the stars of American society and stage . |