Example sentences of "[v-ing] the first [noun] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Urban II , launching the First Crusade at Clermont in 1095 , presented it as a natural evolution of the peace movement : warriors were to forget their petty feuds and squabbles in a campaign to promote the interests of Holy Church . |
| 2 | ‘ But we will have the first National Hunt racing on all-weather anywhere in the world at our first meeting ( Lingfield 's opening card is all Flat ) and we are also staging the first trials at racing pace on the new surface ( they take place on Sunday ) . ’ |
| 3 | Moving the first resolution at Leeds , MacDonald declared : |
| 4 | The Prime Minister was attending the first meeting at the Royal Society of Arts in London of the Walpole Committee , an amalgam of private industry whose objective is to talk up the best that Britain has to offer . |
| 5 | His announcement was backed by opposition leaders Jacques Chirac and Valéry Giscard d'Estaing , attending the first meeting at Saint Maximin of the leadership of their new coalition Union pour la France ( UPF ) . |
| 6 | There is no easy solution to this one , other than doing the first ones at a safe altitude , which means at some speed since it is difficult to fly slowly at any height or distance . |