Example sentences of "the first [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was first improved into Britain two years ago , and the first Norwegian Red crosses were born here last year . |
| 2 | At Grand Central , New York , the Vanderbilt search for opulence had even outrun the French Empire style of the first Grand Central with its great conventional train-shed behind . |
| 3 | West Germany 's opposition Social Democrats yesterday cautiously welcomed the formation of an East German Social Democrat party , the first actual political party to emerge from the present ferment for reform . |
| 4 | The first actual direct steam-driven flour mill is thought to have been that of Young and Co , of Bristol in 1780 , in Lewis Mead , near the city centre and powered by a Wasborough/Pickerd engine . |
| 5 | The expectation is that if Durham , the first new first-class county since Glamorgan in 1921 , are to win something in their inaugural season , it will be a one-day competition . |
| 6 | Paradise , launched on CBS last season and shown on BBC1 this summer , was the first new western serial for a decade . |
| 7 | The first new post-war tram on the Promenade on June 16 1952 , when it was driven by a top-hatted Mayor , guided by Manager Walter Luff . |
| 8 | That was how the first New Internationalist editorial began , back in March 1973 , calling for a second front in rich countries that would help the people of the Third World in their war on poverty . |
| 9 | THE Army 's firepower gets a major boost this week when the first new self-propelled field gun for 30 years enters service . |
| 10 | The first appreciable new residential development subsequent to the war , to take place in Chiswick , occurred in 1956 , on a section of land between the Cubitt 's Yacht Basin and the end house in Hartington Road , close to Chiswick Bridge over the River Thames . |
| 11 | On the left were his sisters , May , in Australia , and Alice , gone on the first available post-war ship to America and her man . |
| 12 | The plastics and polymers which came into use between the wars were , or were claimed to be , the first man-made strong materials to come out of chemical laboratories and they rather went to the heads of the chemists , who supposed , not unnaturally , that these polymers were strong because they had put them together with strong chemical bonds . |
| 13 | You want to throw it away on the first blonde blue-eyed gold-digger to throw herself across your path . ’ |
| 14 | The first Kenyan African novelist was a man of anger , developing the marxist position that would eventually bring him detention without trial for a year , followed by exile . |
| 15 | Atomic shelters had been on sale in the U.S. ( at a cost of $1,995 in 1951 ) since the first Russian atomic bomb . |
| 16 | Nine months later , to the horror of Western scientists , the first Russian H-bomb proper was exploded in Siberia , well ahead of Teller 's ‘ improved ’ version . |
| 17 | Kaifu was the first Japanese Prime Minister to visit Brunei . |
| 18 | This page and View from City Road , page 31 Mitsubishi listing : Mitsubishi has became the first Japanese general trading company to be listed on the London Stock Exchange . |
| 19 | Data General also expanded the storage options available in its Clariion range with what it claims is the first high-performance fail-safe tape array for Unix . |
| 20 | Morgan , and one a German , Georg Siemens — put together the French theory of entrepreneurial banking and the English theory of commercial banking to create the first successful modern banks , J.P . |
| 21 | The initial prosecution was brought by Greenpeace , and was the first successful private prosecution of a company under the 1989 Water Act . |
| 22 | The first successful flour-manufacturing plant using only rollers was the Manchester mill established by Henry Simon in 1878 . |
| 23 | The first successful self-filling pen was the Conklin : it had a rubber sac , which was squeezed by a bar attached to a crescent of metal protruding through the side of the pen . |
| 24 | Rudyerd was the builder of the first successful sea-rock lighthouse in the world . |
| 25 | In fact , the first Soviet atomic device was detonated in August 1949 ! |
| 26 | The Communist coup in Czechoslovakia ( January 1948 ) , the Berlin Blockade ( June 1948 ) , the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty ( April 1949 ) , the first Soviet atomic bomb test ( August 1949 ) , and Mao Tse Tung 's proclamation of the Peoples Republic of China ( October 1949 ) , all rekindled a sense of common purpose between Britain and the United States , and created an urge to find a way of harmonizing their atomic energy programmes . |
| 27 | The second attempt to replace the Quebec Agreement with something more useful than the modus vivendi began in September 1949 , just after the detonation of the first Soviet atomic bomb was confirmed , and coincidentally with a devaluation of sterling , which threw a spotlight on the shakiness of the British economy . |
| 28 | In March the first Soviet military units began withdrawing with their equipment from Czechoslovakia and Hungary . |
| 29 | England invited to tour Soviet Union David Plummer greets the arrival at Twickenham of the first Soviet national rugby team to visit the British Isles . |
| 30 | GLASNOST reached Twickenham yesterday when the first Soviet national side to visit Britain startled the Rugby Football Union by inviting their hosts to tour the Soviet Union next year . |