Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] have [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dave Walsh and Roger Mear have made the first British ascent of mighty Nanga Parbat , 8,165 metres . |
| 2 | It was February 3 : on Feb 4 , two years before , Richard Hadlee had become the first to reach this once-unthinkable total . |
| 3 | Although Mao has been the subject of countless biographies , David Goodman has written the first fitting biography of Mr Deng . |
| 4 | As children , she and her sister Ruth had reckoned the first outing to pick primroses as the true herald of spring . |
| 5 | Adele Graham from Pest Control South West has become the first female supervisor . |
| 6 | Sir John Cockroft , the Director of Harwell , had won a Nobel Prize for his 1932 work where , with the prototype high energy nuclear accelerator , he and Ernest Walton had made the first artificial disintegration , or fission , of atomic nuclei . |
| 7 | I was surprised to find that Mr Summerfield had known the first Station Master of Bishop 's Castle , Elisha Edwin Owen — it was a thrill to speak to someone who had received first-hand memories of the start of the Railway . |
| 8 | By 9.30am yesterday morning , an hour after 90-year-old Gene Sarazen had bisected the first fairway with an open-ceremonial drive , a stain of sweat was already running down the spine of Gary Wolstenholme 's golf shirt as he tried to make head and tail of the practice putting green . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , under-pressure manager Malcolm Crosby has warned the First Division not to write his team out of the promotion picture . |
| 10 | Earlier , Malcolm Pyrah had won the first Olympic Talent Spotters Championship on It 's Me and , though he does not believe the small seven-year-old chestnut is potential Olympic material , he echoed the widespread praise for this new series of competitions . |
| 11 | Latest news from the expedition to climb Ultar , Pakistan 's highest unclimbed summit at nearly 7,300 metres , is that while no result has emerged from the tussle with the main objective , Mick Fowler and Craig Jones have made the first British ascents of Bublimiting ( 5,750 metres ) and Hunza Peak ( 6,250 metres ) . |
| 12 | Peterlee-based TRW REPA has become the first company in County Durham to be recognised as Investors in People , a training benchmark , by the County Durham Training and Enterprise Council . |
| 13 | The rock star Midge Ure has become the first person to give a concert at the Oxford Union . |
| 14 | Pueblo Indians in New Mexico have become the first to invoke an amendment to the 1987 Clean Water Act which allows certain American Indian reservations to set their own water quality standards . |
| 15 | They had arrived home near the turnpike crossroads at 10.15pm , they had heard a shot at 10.25 , and they had seen William Tidbury and William Day leaving a Path near the woods at 10.50 , which was some five minutes after PC Golby had discovered the first body . |
| 16 | CANCER drug campaigner Janet Murray has had the first tablets which may give her a chance of a normal life . |
| 17 | Herman Ouseley has become the first black chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality . |
| 18 | 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 . |