Example sentences of "[noun] be [verb] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | All beginners are required to master the first kata before taking their first grading examination . |
| 2 | It seems perfectly possible that the creation — or re-creation , if one accepts that Molla Edebali and Tursun Fakih were in some sense Muftis — of the office of Mufti to which Molla Fenari and Molla Yegan were appointed represents the first step in the creation of the office to which Fahreddin Acemi was appointed , a groping towards the concept which was fully realized in the office held by the latter . |
| 3 | More thorough stock control completed the changed Southern scene as virtually all EMU units were renumbered to allow the first two digits to match their fleet status . |
| 4 | Informants were asked to circle the first SF element in the passage . |
| 5 | Also , subjects were asked to describe the first meeting with a close friend or partner ; in this case all the persons described in the account were found to be favourable and the account are being made in retrospect . |
| 6 | The Middlesbrough fans were returning from clinching promotion at Wolverhampton and the York-based Leeds Utd supporters were celebrating winning the First Division championship . |
| 7 | Year II of the core subjects is designed to develop the first year taxonomy of skills at a problem-solving and decisional level and to provide an integrative view of the office environment . |
| 8 | Late roses tumbled over stone walls , Michaelmas daisies and chrysanthemums provided bright patches of colour , and the trees that surrounded the village were beginning to show the first hint of the glowing autumn colours still to come . |
| 9 | If unc is the wavefunction at a point on the detecting screen corresponding to the electron 's having traversed the first slit , and P , the associated probability , and if unc and P , are the similar quantities for slit 2 , the rules I have just stated imply unc Then , in the case when both slits are open , the probability unc let us call it ) is just given by unc The quantities unc and unc are what we called probability amplitudes ( p. 88 ) . |
| 10 | Miss Boothroyd is seeking to become the first woman speaker . |
| 11 | Sadly , the mill and house were destroyed by fire in 1933 , but from these ashes and the insurance money a modern mill was built incorporating the first Californian press imported into the country . |
| 12 | Members of the Department of Social Anthropology and the Audio-Visual Aids Unit Cambridge are collaborating to make the first experimental videodisc at Cambridge University . |
| 13 | In a package to be put before the clubs , the League 's governing body are proposing to increase the First Division from 14 to 16 teams . |
| 14 | A control group were asked to name the first vegetable they thought of and another group were asked to recite ‘ fifteen times ’ fifteen times and then to name a vegetable . |
| 15 | With the dam wall now standing at 57 metres , this year 's monsoon is expected to flood the first few villages . |
| 16 | Statistics were anslysed using the FIRST statistics package ( Serious Statistical Software , Willaston , South Wirral ) . |
| 17 | If no notification is made prepare the first absence letter to be issued . |
| 18 | Courtaulds Aerospace at Littleborough in the UK is hoping to become the first business in its industry to gain an award under the new Investors in People scheme which recognises training to national standards . |
| 19 | Despite being outnumbered , unaware of the enemy 's dispositions and ignorant of the terrain , Hamilton was ordered to make the first British landings on 25 April at the southern tip of the peninsula near Cape Helles , while Anzac troops went ashore about 24km/15mls farther up the Aegean coast near Gaba Tepe . |
| 20 | I SUPPOSE a lot of people are waiting to greet the first cuckoo of spring , but I was looking forward to the first hedgehog of spring . |
| 21 | A prospectus was drawn up and students with suitable qualifications were invited to attend the first course in 1977 . |
| 22 | There is , however , the difference that in those cases the control is used to investigate the first instability whereas here it is needed only for the later stages . |
| 23 | If the plan proceeds , then Dangerfield is set to become the first significant tourist facility to commemorate the history of textile manufacturing in the Borders . |
| 24 | Island Graphics is set to become the first — and so far the only — application for Solaris-on-Intel , to be announced this week at PC Expo . |
| 25 | BULLIED Pacific No. 34027 TAW Valley is set to become the first steam locomotive to depart from London 's Waterloo with a passenger train in 25 years . |
| 26 | One Brownie is chosen to ask the first question . |
| 27 | The veteran Shankill councillor was set to become the first outgoing Lord Mayor in Belfast 's history not to be re-elected . |
| 28 | Griffin was fated to become the first ( and still the only ) bowler to achieve a hat-trick in a Lord 's Test and , in the same match , also to become the first man to be called for throwing in a Test in England . |
| 29 | Rules were relaxed to allow the first privately owned locomotives unlimited access to the national rail network . |
| 30 | Glasgow is planning to become the first Scottish city to ban the consumption of alcohol in the street . |