Example sentences of "the first [noun] in this " in BNC.
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| 1 | William Murdock was the first person in this country to build a moving steam engine . |
| 2 | Patient 301 was the first person in this family to be referred for genetic counselling . |
| 3 | Which ground staged the first Test in this country ? ( 6 ) 3 . |
| 4 | This shows you that the colour you have now selected and are going to work on , is the first colour in this palette . |
| 5 | The first development in this field was the invention of Coberine by Unilever , working with a leading English chocolate company , which was patented in 1961 . |
| 6 | The first stakes in this programme are CD ( Companion Dog ) ; the second stakes are UD ( Utility Dog ) ; the third , WD ( Working Dog ) ; the fourth TD ( Tracking Dog ) and the fifth PD ( Police Dog ) . |
| 7 | The first moves in this direction began soon after independence , with the ‘ Education with Production ’ programme . |
| 8 | The first moves in this respect began during Allan Hayhurst 's stewardship and were primarily the responsibility of Alan Wilson , who for over thirty years served the BDA with devotion and exceptional skills until illness caused his retirement and death in 1985 . |
| 9 | Indeed , the first moves in this direction occurred in 1986 of course , when as Noble Lords will recall the Metropolitan counties or at least their county councils were abolished and police authorities were created for the same areas as freestanding corporate bodies . |
| 10 | St. Saviour 's was the first church in this country to be specially dedicated to use by deaf people and was the crowning achievement of the Rev. Samuel Smith , the first clergyman ordained to minister entirely to the deaf . |
| 11 | The first sentence in this paragraph , for example , indicates that the discussion is to be about the change from one paragraph to another . |
| 12 | It is a history of morale boosting , of public money being made available from various sources from 1918 onwards : to enrich the life in remote villages in danger of being deserted by the exodus after the First World War ; to occupy the unemployed in the 1930s on Tyneside ; to counter the dreary effect of the ‘ blackout ’ during the Second World War ( this was the first instance in this country of government subsidy ) ; to bring a sense of wellbeing to the community during the difficult years following the war ; and in particular , to occupy bored young people . |
| 13 | This is the first exercise in this book and in certain ways the most important . |
| 14 | Volume VII , 2 , of the series corpus vitrearum medii aevi Deutschland , Die mittelalterlichen Glasmalereien in Luneburg und den Heideklostern by Rudiger Becksmann and Ulf-Dietrich Korn is the first issue in this scholarly series to cover medieval stained glass in Northern Germany ( DM395 ) . |
| 15 | The first component in this classical stimulus-response link is specific injury-detecting nerve fibres , the nociceptors . |
| 16 | Moving for the first time in this book to Moscow and central administration , we find that from 18 July 1921 , the Central Commission for the Relief of the Starving ( Pomgol ) was in charge of the Famine programme . |
| 17 | For the first time in this book we shall take a closer look at one branch of the proletariat . |
| 18 | I have noticed this during the last two or three days that I have been sitting here , being able for the first time in this House , to see the faces of my old associates , I have admired the way in which they have cheered to keep their spirits up , and I have admired those who have done that knowing — knowing — that only a few weeks , possibly , remain , before the place that knows them now will know them no more . |
| 19 | For the first time in this entire campaign , the weather resembled the balmy days of Mrs Thatcher 's victory trails . |
| 20 | It is fair conjecture that the Chelsea porcelain painters working from live plants sought subjects from the nearby Physic Garden , where they might find many impressive exotics flowering for the first time in this country . |
| 21 | For the first time in this country , for many pupils , the assessment of oracy has been made compulsory : by GCSE . |
| 22 | Of these , three items , ‘ A Visit to Newgate ’ , ‘ The Black Veil ’ , and ‘ The Great Winglebury Duel ’ appeared for the first time in this collection . |
| 23 | Of these only the last item appeared for the first time in this volume . |
| 24 | A fixed position allows the use of a tripod and , for the first time in this Christmas video shoot , the use of an extension microphone to enable you to make a good job of recording all those fascinating speeches that tend to be made after the second or third glass of wine . |
| 25 | The Penarth Group ( late Triassic ) , proved for the first time in this area , is succeeded conformably by the Lias Group , comprising rocks of latest Triassic and early Jurassic age ( Hettangian and early Sinemurian ) . |
| 26 | Igor Stravinsky met him for the first time in this year , and recalled how shy he seemed . |
| 27 | There 's a new vaccine introduced last October which is being er , used for the first time in this country to prevent meningitis in children . |
| 28 | This policy statement made for the first time in this context a distinction in the Secretary of State 's approach to mandatory life sentences on the one hand and discretionary life sentences on the other . |
| 29 | INTOXICATED as they are with the feeling that they are the World Cup champions , Pakistan , after only a brief stay at home which included a pilgrimage to Meccas at the government 's expense to offer their thanks to the Almighty Allah — besides cash awards at home from every quarter — are now here to take on England in a series of five Tests , and , for the first time in this country , five one-day internationals . |
| 30 | Catholicism is presented as a potential remedy , but the philosophy of indeterminacy appears for the first time in this novel as a rival discourse . |