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

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1 SIMON McKie , a director of Rathbone Brothers , the quoted banking and investment group , has been elected the first Deputy Chairman of the Faculty of Taxation of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales .
2 Digital Equipment France SA and Paris 's showpiece impressionist museum , the converted railway station Musee d'Orsay , has been demonstrating the first piece of their collaboration on a worthy prototype application of multimedia technology , ‘ Learn to See . ’
3 The easiest way of proceeding is to have the first row as YYYYNNNN , the second row as YYNNYYNN and the final row as YNYNYNYN .
4 The first day of bleeding is considered the first day of the menstrual cycle , when the unfertilised egg and the lining of the womb is shed and discharged .
5 When you want to run a program ( such as WORD.COM ) , all you have to do is type the first part of the filename ( WORD ) .
6 The basic way in which these c.c.d. lines operate is to have the first capacitor connected to the input so that it samples the input voltage .
7 Earlier , on Oct. 5 , Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi had been appointed the first woman member of the Supreme Court .
8 He had been defeated the first time , but that foray into the arena had taught him a lot .
9 ’ Well John Major says I 'm a bit of a bastard , and I 've been spending the first part of this conference checking my birth certificate ’ .
10 By the time she 'd elbowed the door open with two steaming mugs of tea , I had was reading the first thing which had come to hand .
11 Two Oxfam workers have been giving a first hand account of conditions in Cambodia , where they claim millions of lives are at risk .
12 Joh Commonwealth leaders have been attending the first day of their summit in Cyprus and protests by Greek Cypriots .
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