Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] the first [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | On behalf of CEPT , the Conference on European Posts and Telecommunications , the European Radiocommunications Office has completed the first Detailed Spectrum Investigation into the use of radio frequencies in the microwave or millimetric spectrum — between 3.4GHz and 105GHz . |
2 | But although Mansell has won the first four races this season , he 's trying not to be over-confident about making it five . |
3 | A BOY who has won the first national Kids Who Care award is to use his prize money to buy a guide dog for his brother . |
4 | Ms Sandra Milton , aged 31 , has won the first Scheduled Services Award for selling more trips from the airport than any other travel agent during the last 12 month . |
5 | Although Mao has been the subject of countless biographies , David Goodman has written the first fitting biography of Mr Deng . |
6 | The survey has produced the first national estimate of below tolerable standard houses derived from consistently applied methods . |
7 | Yet if the IPPR has its way , the Labour Party will be adopting parent-friendly , talent-rewarding policies well before Lord James Douglas-Hamilton has got the first secondary school to say goodbye to our authoritarian system . |
8 | The principles and example of the Revolution helped to inspire the first successful slave revolt in the Caribbean in Haiti , as well as the political independence movements of South America . |
9 | We 're going to continue with this objective in the coming months in this , the third series , but before we get totally immersed I want to use the first three programmes to stand back to take a more general look at what universities are about today . |
10 | You probably want to use the first few rows of the spreadsheet for a general title plus notes to yourself about the date of creation and date of most recent revision so enter the headings you want in row 9 of the spreadsheet using short labels but ones that you will find meaningful in the reports you will want to create later on . |
11 | ‘ Next , ’ said Amaranth , who had let drop the first two scarves on to the heads of the assembled press men , ‘ we have Gerald Kaufman , all vinegar and no chips . ’ |
12 | Herman Ouseley has become the first black chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality . |
13 | Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG has become the first non-US company to adopt Hewlett-Packard Co 's SoftBench computer-aided software engineering environment . |
14 | PIONEERING Dawn Walden pictured right , has become the first female fire fighter at Courtaulds Fibres ' Grimsby plant in the UK . |
15 | Adele Graham from Pest Control South West has become the first female supervisor . |
16 | The Institute has become the first professional institution to be registered for its headquarters administrative operations under BS 5750 . |
17 | Middlesbrough has become the first local authority in Cleveland to approve a proposed licensing scheme for doormen . |
18 | An Institute member has become the first chartered accountant to face trial on money laundering charges under the drug Trafficking Offence Act 1986 . |
19 | A pilot from Wiltshire has become the first British serviceman to be decorated in Bosnia . |
20 | Reading Transport has become the first British bus company to run its buses on a fuel derived from oilseed rape . |
21 | THE Isle of Man has become the first British authority to issue plastic identity card driving licences with tamper-proof colour photographs , using a £30,000 digital imaging system developed by Hitachi and NBS Card Systems of Weybridge , Surrey . |
22 | Moss Bros has become the first high street retailer to launch a privilege card that clocks up points towards discounts at the till , giving customers money off at the group 's stores and other outlets . |
23 | Lord Hesketh , who farms 5,000 acres at Towcester Northamptonshire , has become the first honorary vice-president of the British Simmental Cattle Society . |
24 | Children born in the United Kingdom to students , visitors or illegal immigrants no longer automatically acquire British citizenship at birth , but they will still be able to register as British citizens if either parent later becomes a citizen or settles in the United Kingdom , or if the child has spent the first ten years of its life in the country . |
25 | PowerGen , one of the two CEGB successor generating companies , has struck the first direct sale power contract before privatisation . |
26 | PowerGen , one of the two CEGB successor generating companies , has struck the first direct sale power contract before privatisation . |
27 | With the dam wall now standing at 57 metres , this year 's monsoon is expected to flood the first few villages . |
28 | The programme of re-organisation and expenditure reductions which followed the review of the Society 's activities during the Autumn of 1991 has yielded the first full year of financial benefits during 1992 and these are reflected in the increased surplus . |
29 | ERS-1 is expected to return the first quantitive data on these processes at the poles . |
30 | The Belgian government has ordered the first multi-language version of Chemdata from the National Chemical Emergency Centre . |