Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | WITH a triumphant twang of the zither , the City University of London has filled the first Joe Loss Research Fellowship in Jewish Music . |
| 4 | Despite onerous hours — he starts work at 4am and leaves the office about midnight having scanned the first editions of the next day 's newspapers — he has faith in his product , although he cheerfully admits that it needs tweaked into shape . |
| 5 | The seminars , which will be held in Dundee and Glasgow , will focus on the second phase of general SVQs , though they may also include workshops for centres wanting to pilot the first batch of awards for the first time . |
| 6 | The Northern General Hospital National Health Service Trust in Sheffield has become the first hospital in the UK to install a Fibre Distributed Data Interface network : supplied by Cray Communications Ltd , the network is intended to run between eight hospital departments . |
| 7 | A village which has been hit by a big increase in crime has become the first in Britain to install video cameras on its roads . |
| 8 | A pilot from Wiltshire has become the first British serviceman to be decorated in Bosnia . |
| 9 | From Titron had come the first man who could withstand radiation , be it from a bomb , or in deep space . |
| 10 | Two studies in Sweden have provided the first convincing evidence of a link between exposure to electromagnetic radiation from overhead power lines and the incidence of cancer , according to officials from the Swedish National Board for Industrial and Technical Development . |
| 11 | Researchers in Oxford have found the first evidence of a genetic cause for unexplained mental retardation in children . |
| 12 | Former Olympic XC skiier , Croasdale is the man in form having won the first two rounds of the British championship breaking course records in the process , and clocking a useful 63–47 for the half marathon in York . |
| 13 | The journey is a repeat of an epic voyage 60 years ago when nuns from the Carmel Convent in Darlington travelled to found the first Carmelite convent in Johannesburg . |
| 14 | Gwen Jones , who started here banking career in Abersoch has become the first woman in Oxfordshire to manage a National Westminster Bank branch . |
| 15 | Monaco also have six players within one yellow card of suspension as they travel to Rotterdam hoping to become the first French finalists in the Cup Winners ' Cup . |
| 16 | The term he had spent at school trying to understand the first thing about physics had been wasted . |