Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did n't take much anaesthetic to render the exhausted patient unconscious , and , as Sophie made the first incision , she put aside her dislike of being critically watched by her professional rival and concentrated on her life-saving task . |
| 2 | Durham County champion Craig Kilgour made the first steps towards his comeback last weekend when he was among a number of county players who took part in a coaching session held by English Golf Union coach Bill Ferguson . |
| 3 | Formal veterinary instruction began in France in 1762 , when the world 's first veterinary school opened in Lyons , where a 24-year-old named Laurent Gaillard became the first pupil on 16 February . |
| 4 | It was presented , to Darlington Harrier Andy Campbell , when the race was established as an open event in 1904 and given to Duncan McLeod-Wright to keep when the Scottish runner became the first man to win three times , in 1929 . |
| 5 | The Norwegian biologist Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe made the first important observations on dominance , in the 1920s . |
| 6 | But in the new spate of glasnost , or openness , one of I T N's Moscow reporters , Bill Meely became the first European journalist to be shown inside the Lubyanka , the K G B's headquarters . |
| 7 | The 18-year-old 's enthusiasm made the first and third chances for Hendrie after 51 and 66 minutes . |
| 8 | The town was laid out in a military camp plan with a wide , straight road crossing the city centre from one side of the town to the other and similar roads intersecting the first at right angles . |
| 9 | Last year The Mary Whitehouse Experience became the first TV programme to be reported to the Broadcasting Standards Council after a derogatory sketch about Going For Gold star Henry Kelly was shown . |
| 10 | Lieutenant General Augustus Pitt-Rivers became the first official guardian of Britain 's heritage |
| 11 | HAND PUPPETS made to look like mature Californian condors are being used by biologists at the San Diego wild animal park to nurse the first two Californian condor chicks born in captivity through the early weeks of life . |
| 12 | Scott and a team including Chris Bonington made the first ascent in 1977 ; on the rock ridge of Shivling East Pillar ; Greg Child belayed on Lobsang Spire in the Karakoram — another first ascent for Scott in 1983 . |
| 13 | On July 1 Andorra became the first non-EC country to join the EC customs union , when a treaty signed in June 1990 [ see p. 37592 ] came into effect . |
| 14 | When W. S. Rockstro made the first thorough-going attempt at a life of Handel in 1883 , he had before him a list of no fewer than 53 likenesses made during the composer 's lifetime . |
| 15 | In this model , modelling land-use and transportation policies represents the first stage of this air quality simulation system ( Gross , 1982 ) . |
| 16 | Ferguson became the first player to be sent off in the six-year reign of Scotland manager Andy Roxburgh . |
| 17 | However , as the now-famous story purports , the evening after Nation had instructed his agent to say no to the Doctor Who offer , he and Tony Hancock had a serious disagreement , resulting in the writer catching the first train back to London the following morning , with no work , and a central heating system in his flat to pay for . |
| 18 | As officials lit a cutting torch to destroy a Soviet-made armoured car and a cannon at a military base near Erfurt on Aug. 3 , Germany became the first country to destroy arms under the terms of the Conventional Forces in Europe ( CFE ) treaty signed in November 1990 [ see p. 37838 ] . |
| 19 | Nine months later , Francis ' team dominated Canadian sprinting , and the following year Angella Taylor became the first of the group to reach world class . |
| 20 | All right then , just this once , and only because Strawberry Story sound like Andrea from the Darling Buds singing the first Mary Chain album . |
| 21 | All right then , just this once , and only because Strawberry Story sound like Andrea from the Darling Buds singing the first Mary Chain album . |
| 22 | In October Gen. Dmitri Yazov made the first visit to the USA by a Soviet Defence Minister , at the invitation of US Defence Secretary Dick Cheney . |
| 23 | And it was Ralph Knibbs who took advantage to claim the first try for Bristol . |
| 24 | Local types were beginning to be noticed , and in 1709 the English parliament passed the first of a series of Enclosure Acts which , indirectly , would lead to breed development by curtailing the traditional practice of communal grazing and random mating . |
| 25 | WASHINGTON — General Dmitri Yazov became the first Soviet defence minister to visit the US yesterday , beginning a week of talks as the guest of his opposite number , Dick Cheney , writes Marc Champion . |
| 26 | Last year , Campbell Christie became the first person to take complaints over GCHQ to the tribunals , naming a section at the communications centre , K24e , as being responsible for intercepting telexes sent by trade unionists in Eastern Europe . |
| 27 | The Boipatong massacre became the first major hurdle which rugby had to overcome and this led to the implementation of All Black and Wallaby tour conditions such a the minute 's silence prior to each test , the display of peace and democracy signed at match venues and in match programmes , the non-playing of national anthems and the removal of any official flying of the South African national flag . |
| 28 | Having won two of this series in the fastest times already , he would have had to finish four seconds behind the steeplechaser Mark Rowland to lose the first prize of £5,000 . |
| 29 | In 1555 Primož Trubar made the first translation of the New Testament into Slovene and in 1584 a Slovene grammar was produced . |
| 30 | Wolsey met the first crisis by ordering the levy of a forced loan . |