Example sentences of "also [vb past] [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Conventionalism also failed on the first perspective .
2 However , Murray also admitted for the first time how close she came to quitting after Barcelona .
3 The congress also agreed for the first time that in order to ensure a separation of the MPRP and state bodies , the Chairman of the Presidium of the People 's Great Hural ( i.e. effective head of state ) should not be a member of the supreme governing body of the MPRP .
4 Another practice fairly common in the sixteenth century , that of the " circular " embassy which visited a series of different states , negotiating with each in turn , also persisted into the first half of that which followed .
5 In this conversation I also learned for the first time that my father had been a poor vicar .
6 ( Two other candidates also stood in the first round : Mahmud Othman and Othman Abd al-Aziz . )
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