Example sentences of "[verb] the first [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 BY the time you read this article we shall have completed the first training workshop on T.Q.M. designed for directors and a number of senior managers .
2 Now in his 40s , he made the first solo ascent of Point Young on the Grandes Jorasses in August .
3 Despite this , Bennett led seven Hudson aircraft , with captain , co-pilot and wireless operator and made the first formation delivery flight across the Atlantic in November 1940 ; similar formation flights followed at regular intervals .
4 President Mitterrand of France on April 18-19 made the first state visit to Romania by a west European head of state since the fall of Ceausescu in December 1989 .
5 In mid-February 1990 the Powers announced that German flights to Berlin would also be allowed and on Aug. 5 a plane made the first Lufthansa flight to a Berlin airport since 1945 landing at Schönefeld airport ( on the outskirts of East Berlin ) .
6 For instance , in 1986 , he and his crew made the first Hooker crossing of the Atlantic to be Ireland 's representative in the Parade of Sail which celebrated the Centenary of the Statue of Liberty .
7 So ( v ) what a person says , using the first person singular , present tense , of a psychological verb , is true or false precisely in so far as it is an expression of what he has inwardly observed .
8 But ( vii ) people do say things , using the first person singular , present tense , of psychological verbs , which are sometimes true , sometimes false .
9 Is what was said earlier — what a person says , using the first person singular , present tense , of a psychological verb , is true or false precisely in so far as it is an expression of what he has inwardly observed — true of ‘ I know ’ ?
10 A possible response to this may be that if we want to understand the concept of knowledge we must treat the use of ‘ I know ’ ( the activity of avouching ) as the primary thing , but that there are other psychological verbs — such as ‘ I hope ’ — in which a speaker using the first person singular of the present tense does simply express his mental state .
11 The celebrations that marked United 's third major Cup — four if you count the European Super Cup — in two calendar years could just be a rehearsal if they land the First Division title in the next three weeks .
12 They will lease the first team pitch and clubhouse back from the buyers next season and expect to move to new premises in 1993 .
13 The Flying Scotsman , on a run from London to Scotland in the 1930's , became the first steam engine ever to reach 100 miles an hour .
14 Khaled Nezzar became the first Defence Minister of Cabinet status appointed in 25 years .
15 On pole after setting a lap record during the qualifying session , Mansell became the first rookie driver to win his first Indy grand prix since the late Graham Hill won the Indianapolis 500 in 1966 .
16 They bought a garage at Caterham from Anthony Crook , who still runs the Bristol Car Company , and began by carrying out ‘ all the usual garage things ’ , and soon became the first Lotus agent when the manufacturer began to expand .
17 Rhodes Music Radio ( RMR ) became the first campus radio station to broadcast live , when it transmitted to Grahamstown during the Standard Bank National Festival in July .
18 Then , when the first priest arrived , he wanted to live in Tala-Tala near the kirk , so this became the first hospital , and this , ’ he almost kicked the battered old trunk , ‘ became the first filing cabinet .
19 Mr Scargill , in an editorial in a special election edition of his union journal The Miner , became the first union leader to issue a series of specific demands during a campaign in which most TUC figures have adopted a low profile .
20 True to historical precedent , it required a white rock musician to have a hit with a black man 's song — in this case Eric Clapton with ‘ I Shot the Sheriff ’ — before the breakthrough could occur ; but at length Bob Marley became the first reggae superstar .
21 In 1956 he became the first consultant neurologist to the RVI , establishing a department which achieved an international reputation .
22 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 .
23 Malcolm Crosby of Sunderland almost became the first caretaker manager to win the FA Cup until Liverpool doused them with reality .
24 The first game was notable in that , apart from a demanding first win , Sebastian Sloane became the first Rugby schoolboy to score a five point try .
25 Indeed the authorities became so concerned that in 1935 she became the first cartoon character to be censored .
26 THIRD DIVISION Maidstone United became the first casualty club of the new season yesterday — and the fear is more could follow .
27 J.W.H.T. Douglas , became the first Test cricketer to win an Olympic title when he took the middleweight crown , beating the Australian R.L. ‘ Snowy ’ Baker , in 1908 , three years before captaining England on their tour of Australia .
28 A Left-winger and a staunch campaigner against nuclear weapons , she became the first woman chairman of the Tribune Group .
29 Boothroyd thus became the first woman Speaker .
30 ON THIS DAY : In 1919 , Lady Astor became the first woman MP to take her seat in the Commons .
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