Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] has [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | A pleasure steamer has made the first day trip down the Severn to the Devon coast for almost a century . |
| 2 | An Institute member has become the first chartered accountant to face trial on money laundering charges under the drug Trafficking Offence Act 1986 . |
| 3 | A THEME park on the former Windsor Safari Park site has cleared the first planning hurdle . |
| 4 | Reading Transport has become the first British bus company to run its buses on a fuel derived from oilseed rape . |
| 5 | The J. Paul Getty Museum has produced the first volume in a new series of fine quality facsimile editions of volumes from its manuscript collection . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Edinburgh District Council has become the first UK city authority to promote a car-pooling scheme , following the launch of a commercial venture earlier this year [ see ED 55 ] . |
| 8 | The Vale of White Horse district council has become the first to set its Poll Tax at £412 . |
| 9 | An Oxford priest has become the first in the country to announce he 'll leave the Church of England following the vote to ordain women priests . |
| 10 | EDINBURGH District Council 's Construction Skills Training programme has won the first UK award for the use of new technology in training . |
| 11 | A county council has taken the first step towards a total ban on all fox hunting on council land . |
| 12 | KPMG Peat Marwick Midland Region has become the first of the Big Six firms ' practices to gain the Investors in People award . |
| 13 | The Faculty of Public Health Medicine has published the first report of a working party set up to investigate available indicators of the nation 's health . |
| 14 | Dun & Bradstreet Software Corp has launched the first of its Unix applications from the former Management Science America base in Atlanta . |
| 15 | In today 's issue of Nature , a team of scientists at the University of Bath and the Natural History Museum has taken the first step to explain why their shapes can be as diverse and striking as those of snowflakes . |