Example sentences of "first [to-vb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Decorative Plasterwork of the Renaissance ( 1927 ) was the first to treat of that particular craft . |
| 2 | It was Metzinger who , in his Note sur la Peinture of 1910 , was the first to write of the fact that Picasso and Braque had dismissed traditional perspective and felt free to move around their subjects , studying them from various points of view . |
| 3 | Morgan was the first to learn of the Armistice in the trenches , where he intercepted instructions from the German GHQ ordering the generals to lay down their arms . |
| 4 | He knew beforehand that on April 8 the Royal Navy were to mine the fjords off Narvik , in neutral Norway 's territorial waters , and he was one of the first to learn of Germany 's devastating response , a full-scale invasion the next day . |
| 5 | The carer may find it repugnant at first to think of helping the patient with this basic human function . |
| 6 | My objective — and , of course , this was one imposed upon me by my professionalism and by the need to clear the ground of rabbits as thoroughly as possible — was first to dispose of the bolting rabbits and then to continue by digging out as many of the remainder as possible . |
| 7 | 4.1 The period of the licences shall begin on the date of this Agreement and end on whichever is the first to occur of the following : |
| 8 | James Hansen of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York , one of the first to warn of the dangers of global warming , agrees that most of the warming has been at night but expects warming factors eventually to overtake cooling factors , leading to significant rises in daytime temperatures . |
| 9 | Hill was the first to speak of muscle activity in terms of costs and expenditures , and he originated the term ‘ oxygen debt ’ . |