Example sentences of "taking [noun sg] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | A number of countries which were suspected ( principally by the USA and other Western countries ) of developing chemical weapons-including Libya , Iraq and Syria-were among a total of 22 countries taking part for the first time in the committee 's deliberations since the opening of the spring session , albeit as observers . |
| 2 | Disabled people from twenty one countries are taking part in the first wheelchair games of its kind . |
| 3 | The latter readily agreed , inviting Corbett to walk with him in the silent , shadowy cloisters , taking advantage of the first soft breezes of early summer . |
| 4 | Concerning those chemical changes , which were of fantastic magnitude , taking place during the first of these periods , it is probably true to say that most established religions do now , perhaps reluctantly , accept as true the scientific theories governing the associated processes of evolution . |
| 5 | This is not to say that it was the consequence of the rise of Fordism ( i.e. , the changes that were taking place during the first half of the 20th century in capitalist methods of production ) . |
| 6 | Since the letting can not be conceived as existing before the event permitted gets under way , to is not used with let , just as it is not used with see because seeing can not be conceived as taking place before the first moment of the event seen . |
| 7 | And in taking prey for the first time he had found courage . |