Example sentences of "[verb] the first [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taylor , from Birkenhead , Merseyside , struck one prison officer , taking his keys , and within minutes the rioters had erected the first of a labyrinth of barricades and begun systematically destroying the chapel . |
| 2 | It must have been towards the end of 1920 that Lord Darlington made the first of a number of trips to Berlin himself , and I can remember the profound effect it had on him . |
| 3 | In the early 1890s , in loyal imitation of the Queen , Gladstone made the first of a number of visits . |
| 4 | National Semiconductor became the first of a stream of US and later Japanese electronics investors to take the bait . |
| 5 | Upon 26 December of that year he used the opportunity of the restoration of the Rump Parliament to issue the first of a succession of twice-weekly news-books . |
| 6 | David had been right , thought Juliet excitedly , as they approached the first of a row of huge old houses . |
| 7 | But on the day of his funeral Jean , his wife of 38 years , found the first of a trail of clues to his lavish hidden lifestyle with a secret mistress . |
| 8 | Vancouver-based Spectrum Signal Processing Inc has teamed up with Texas Instruments Inc and IBM Corp to develop a suite of multimedia products for the personal computer using the MWave standard : the first two will design , develop and test the first in a family of boards and IBM will apply the technology to multimedia markets such as video . |
| 9 | Vancouver-based Spectrum Signal Processing Inc has teamed up with Texas Instruments Inc and IBM Corp to develop a suite of multimedia products for the personal computer using the MWave standard : the first two will design , develop and test the first in a family of boards and IBM will apply the technology to multimedia markets such as video . |
| 10 | This software enabled the first of a number of useful commercial applications of AI to be constructed ; many of these can be considered as the second generation of expert systems . |
| 11 | Little known UK company , White Cross Systems Ltd , Bracknell , Berkshire , last week introduced the first in a family of Transputer-based parallel servers , the White Cross IDS 9010 . |
| 12 | In 1976 , Henry Blake published the first of a number of books that showed that he had studied the horse 's mind in depth . |