Example sentences of "the first world [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | George Albert Smith was later of course erm to come on and make a big name , a world name for himself as the inventor of the first colour process , a very simple , two-colour process , but it was invented by him in Brighton , and it was the first world colour process . |
| 2 | It 's 100 years on Sunday since Gentleman Jim Corbett won the first world heavyweight title under Queensberry rules . |
| 3 | Between 1974 and 1976 the Labour government tried to operate a counter-cyclical policy to keep full employment in the face of the first world depression for forty years . |
| 4 | LONDON Monarchs travel to Barcelona Dragons tonight for a rematch of the first World Bowl , writes Christopher Davies . |
| 5 | Silverstone calls itself the home of British motor racing and it could equally call itself the home of Formula One since the first race of the first world championship was held there in l950 . |
| 6 | But , Alfa Romeo returned to racing for the first World Championship in 1950 , he was invited to join their team and he finished second in the inaugural championship , having won the Monaco , Belgian and French Grands Prix . |
| 7 | The initial defence of his title was the first world championship held in Scotland . |
| 8 | The first World Worm Charming Championships , I recall , were held at Willaston , near Nantwich in Cheshire , in July 1980 . |
| 9 | On the first world tour in 1872–3 Thomas Cook filed several reports of his travels to The Times in a series called ‘ Letters from the Sea and from Foreign Lands ’ . |
| 10 | In a nation which is as sports-crazy as Brazil , and which has produced a number of greatly distinguished drivers , of which Emerson was the first world champion , the interest is hardly surprising . |
| 11 | The first Formula One World Championship race took place at Silverstone on 13 May 1950 and was won by Italian Giuseppe Farina , who became the first World Champion four months later . |
| 12 | The Prime Minister was the first world leader to announce his intention to attend the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro this June . |
| 13 | Provided he is not forced to drop them it may be that Gorbachev , ironically , could be the first world leader to actually reduce a country 's intelligence agencies on the grounds that there is less for them to do . |
| 14 | The first World Summit for Children , held in New York on Sept. 29-30 , was attended by more than 70 heads of government . |
| 15 | The first World Summit on Children sponsored by UNICEF in September adopted a 10-point programme for children 's rights [ see p. 37732 ] based on a series of recommendations contained in the State of the World 's Children 1988 report . |
| 16 | Gareth Chilcott — popularised as the Oddjob of English rugby during the first World Cup in Australia in 1987 , but affectionately referred to as ‘ Coochie ’ in these parts — was sent off for punching , and 14 men of Bath succumbed to Gloucester 's 15 . |
| 17 | The Euro Horse Trophy was on time from the start and Rozier just held off Austrian Hugo Simon , who won the first World Cup final in this arena in 1979 , on Amaretto . |
| 18 | Bradley , who played in the first World Cup in 1987 , was still in the Irish team the following season but , apart from an appearance against Wales when Gus Aherne was injured in 1990 , he became the forgotten man . |
| 19 | England withdrew from Fifa in 1928 , as discussions began for the organisation of the first World Cup competition , and remained disdainfully on the sidelines until 1950 , when England 's ‘ superiority ’ complex was quickly dissipated by a 1–0 defeat in a pool match against the United States . |
| 20 | DARLINGTON 'S John Bradley , a student at Bath University , is among the 13 members of the England senior squad who compete in the first World Cup final in Majorca this weekend after qualifying through the recent Cup meets in Europe . |
| 21 | There were unsubstantiated allegations of serious misbehaviour while Scotland were in Berne for the first World Cup qualifying Group I tie against Switzerland . |
| 22 | Oh yes it says this is the first world cup the new way of playing the qualifying rounds , this is the first world cup where every team has to play each other and it should mean the best sides make the semi-finals . |
| 23 | Oh yes it says this is the first world cup the new way of playing the qualifying rounds , this is the first world cup where every team has to play each other and it should mean the best sides make the semi-finals . |
| 24 | That 's for the first world cup race , two and four man . |
| 25 | The archetype here is Guillaume Apollinaire , special pleader for modernism before the first World War . |
| 26 | Consider Czech art , which might be said to have existed only since the beginning of the Czechoslovak state after the first World War . |
| 27 | The commemoration of the dead in the First World War was seen as a triumphalist commemoration of those who died for Britain . |
| 28 | A magical tale , which tells of man 's disrespect for the natural world around him , as seen through the eyes of an elderly recluse and two young children on the Isles of Scilly at the outbreak of the First World War . |
| 29 | The First World War had caused massive sociological repercussions . |
| 30 | William Blogg , whose brewery disappeared just before the First World War , is one of a whole host of East End brewers whose names live on , even if they no longer brew . |