Example sentences of "first [adv] [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We take this paper to mark the beginning of the era of modern computing , since it was the " first widely circulated document about high speed computers " ( Knuth 1970 ) . |
| 2 | The group already owns stakes in BSkyB ( 17.5% ) and Yorkshire-Tyne Tees , an ITV company ( 14% ) , but Thames will be its first wholly owned television production and distribution business . |
| 3 | They put up dazibao which at first mostly mourned Chai , but the contents of the posters soon became more politically oriented . |
| 4 | It is the first commercially published book illustrated by photography . |
| 5 | At the end of September 1989 India 's first locally constructed submarine , built in collaboration with a West German company , was launched . |
| 6 | He was found guilty of staging a coup attempt in January to prevent Fr Jean-Bertrand Aristide , the country 's first democratically elected President , from taking office [ see p. 37955 ] . |
| 7 | Fr Jean-Bertrand Aristide , Haiti 's first democratically elected President , [ see pp. 37911-12 ] was deposed in a violent military coup on Sept. 30 . |
| 8 | By March 9th when the Germans were ready to make a renewed attempt on the Mort Homme , via Bethincourt to the northwest , the French were well-consolidated after their initial setback ; the Reichs Archives chronicle the ‘ tragedy of the first utterly collapsed assault on the Left Bank ’ But le beau Colonel , alas , was barely to outlive his triumph . |
| 9 | For the world 's first totally screened war has placed a mirror at our disposal . |
| 10 | A pioneer of motoring , he built his first electrically propelled tricycle in 1874 , and subsequently owned sixty-two cars of nineteen different makes . |
| 11 | If it came to constitutional change , he would prefer it to involve the introduction of direct presidential elections — no doubt hoping that the first directly elected president would be none other than himself . |
| 12 | The first purposely constructed wet-dock was completed at Rotherhithe in 1700 and was followed at Liverpool ( 1709 ) and Bristol ( 1717 ) . |
| 13 | The EC guideline is 26 ppb. * Greater use of catalytic converters in the Netherlands has led to the first ever recorded drop in Nox concentrations . |
| 14 | A loan to Robert de Chesney [ q.v. ] , bishop of Lincoln from 1148 to 1166 , could conceivably push Aaron 's residence in the city back to the 1140s ; he was clearly well established there by 1165 , when King Henry II 's repayment of a loan to him marks Aaron 's first securely dated appearance in the records . |
| 15 | It was the first centrally planned church of its kind in Prague . |
| 16 | " King Cotton " spearheaded a new , dynamic but at first narrowly based surge in manufactured goods capable of creating as well as meeting market demand . |
| 17 | Her new book , Die Handzeichnungen , is the first fully illustrated publication of all his loose drawings and completes the picture of this extremely prolific draughtsman ( DM580 ) . |
| 18 | At a Volkskammer session on April 12 " the first freely elected parliament of the GDR recognise[d] joint responsibility for the humiliation , expulsion and murder of Jewish men , women and children " . |
| 19 | BORIS YELTSIN , maverick and volleyball enthusiast , is the only plausible rival to Mikhail Gorbachev for the first freely elected president of the Soviet Union . |
| 20 | Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro was sworn in on March 22 as Cape Verde 's first freely elected President , the elections on Feb. 17 [ see p. 37994 ] having recorded the first ever electoral defeat for an African head of state . |
| 21 | When Edward Shevardnadze resigned as foreign minister , he at once set up the first privately financed think-tank in the Soviet Union , the Foreign Policy Association . |