Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [vb pp] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Middlesbrough has become the first local authority in Cleveland to approve a proposed licensing scheme for doormen . |
| 2 | The new republic of Hungary has become the first eastern European government to commit to open systems and will use X/Open 's XPG brand in procurement . |
| 3 | On to golf now and Colin Montgomerie has reached the last four of the Toyota World Matchplay at Wentworth . |
| 4 | We refer , of course , not to vast numbers of physically appealing American females , but to the stunning vistas of the Norfolk coast , which Richard Denyer has spent the last few years painstakingly photographing |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The Institute has become the first professional institution to be registered for its headquarters administrative operations under BS 5750 . |
| 7 | Palacio has won the last two , but I doubt whether he has much ambition left to extend McMillan past the eighth round . |
| 8 | A pilot from Wiltshire has become the first British serviceman to be decorated in Bosnia . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Reading Transport has become the first British bus company to run its buses on a fuel derived from oilseed rape . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The A 38 , David Buss has spent the last 20 years working at different places along the road that join Nottingham and Cornwall . |
| 13 | The A 38 , David Buss has spent the last 20 years working at different places along the road that joins Nottingham and Cornwall . |
| 14 | Although Mao has been the subject of countless biographies , David Goodman has written the first fitting biography of Mr Deng . |
| 15 | Britain has spent the last 100 years fighting against the facts of German power : indeed our modern national identity has to a great extent been forged in the fires of the great conflict with Germany while our sense of our moral worth rests in part on our role in the defeat of Nazism . |
| 16 | The Belgian government has ordered the first multi-language version of Chemdata from the National Chemical Emergency Centre . |
| 17 | Adele Graham from Pest Control South West has become the first female supervisor . |
| 18 | But although Mansell has won the first four races this season , he 's trying not to be over-confident about making it five . |
| 19 | Herman Ouseley has become the first black chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality . |
| 20 | Mr Rushdie has spent the last few months in Helsinki , Finland , completing a new book . |
| 21 | In Britain local authority ( council ) housing has become the second largest sector of the housing market , holding considerable social significance in local areas . |
| 22 | This page and View from City Road , page 31 Mitsubishi listing : Mitsubishi has became the first Japanese general trading company to be listed on the London Stock Exchange . |
| 23 | An Institute member has become the first chartered accountant to face trial on money laundering charges under the drug Trafficking Offence Act 1986 . |
| 24 | Evelyn Lachennes widow of a British war-time spy , Pierre Lachennes has devoted the last ten years to studying the effects of chemical weapons on civilian populations wherever they 've been used . |
| 25 | The survey has produced the first national estimate of below tolerable standard houses derived from consistently applied methods . |
| 26 | With his long arms , thick eyebrows and perpetual five o'clock shadow , Hughes has spent the last few years translating these daily drunken ramblings into a series of highly successful stage shows that have smoothed the way for his successful transition to our television screens . |
| 27 | The Gloucestershire company has spent the last five years building up an export market in America with department stores now taking their products . |
| 28 | Vice president of development , Saiid Zarrabian , admits the company has spent the last three years ‘ in perpetual transition , desperately trying to find out what it is good at … in doing this the company has lost time and money trying to make good the things it started . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Reportedly UI has spent the last six months explaining its vision to these companies ( UX No 391 ) . |