Example sentences of "[prep] be the first [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A wonderful old charabanc — a 1935 Guy Wolf — was chosen to lead the way and have the honour of being the first official vehicle to use the road . |
| 2 | For a period of his twenty year tenure , he served with 55 Squadron at Baghdad in the mid-1920s and , as related by his son Thomas , earned the distinction of being the first non-commissioned airman in the RAF to receive a commission during peace-time . |
| 3 | When the Company 's lease expired in 1892 , Lancaster 's services as manager were retained , thus giving him the distinction of being the first electric street tramway Manager , and upon his death the longest-serving . |
| 4 | All three of the above were in the House of Lords when they formed their ministries , so the distinction of being the first elected politician with a K to become Prime Minister is still available . |
| 5 | Mark Frame had the honour of being the first British member of the Bureau . |
| 6 | Its novelty lies in being the first formal account of language ability that is part of an overall theory of cognition . |
| 7 | It also claims to be the first European hotel with a direct connection to Reuter , offering 24 hour updates on world and financial news . |
| 8 | But , whatever the result , he is backing United to be the first Premier League champions . |
| 9 | Uniface Corp , Alameda , California claims to be the first proprietary language vendor to support IBM Corp 's new DB2/6000 relational database for AIX Unix on the RS/6000 . |
| 10 | Uniface Corp , Alameda , California claims to be the first proprietary language vendor to support IBM Corp 's new DB2/6000 relational database for AIX Unix on the RS/6000 ( UX No 428 ) . |
| 11 | Companion is claimed to be the first complete system to conform fully to the CT2 Common Air Interface CAI standard . |
| 12 | This week it introduced HP Distributed Smalltalk , claiming it to be the first complete implementation of the Object Management Group 's Common Object Request Broker Architecture specification for distributed computing . |
| 13 | The UK visit was reported to be the first official visit by a Vietnamese Foreign Minister since the end of the Vietnam War , and the talks were reported to have been held in an atmosphere of frankness and goodwill , with both sides keen to improve economic and diplomatic links and to co-operate fully on the issue of the repatriation of " boat people " from Hong Kong . |
| 14 | The resulting machine is being launched by Lenexa , Kansas-based DeskStation Technology as the ARCStation 1 , claimed to be the first personal computer to use the power of RISC in combination with an EISA chip set to provide a migration path for current personal computer users to high-end Windows NT applications . |
| 15 | Indeed the Post Office is believed to be the first major organisation to provide the details by the direct method . |
| 16 | BDO Seidman has won what is believed to be the first successful countersuit by an auditor against a former client . |
| 17 | I would like to be the first male editor of Vogue . |
| 18 | Margaret Iversen 's Alois Riegl : Art History and Theory promises to be the first general introduction to Riegl 's approach to art history , the context of his work and its relevance to contemporary critical thinking ( £22.50 ) . |
| 19 | Stratus claims to be the first fault-tolerant system vendor to ship the Unix System V.4 multiprocessing operating system . |
| 20 | In 893 , Tsar Simeon appointed Clement to be the first Slav bishop of the diocese of Velika ( Titov Veles ) , but he still maintained regular contact with the Ohrid School . |
| 21 | ‘ Bilalian ’ replaced ‘ Muslim ’ ( Bilal was an Ethiopian thought to be the first black follower of the prophet Muhammad ) . |
| 22 | Here a building is shown which was probably the old Vicarage , later to be the first Halling school . |
| 23 | Sir George Grey is reputed to be the first white person ever to have seen the Wandjina images in 1838 . |
| 24 | Australia 's first illustrated book , believed to be the first leather-bound copy of any Australian book , The Birds of New South Wales , by John Lewin , published in Sydney in 1813 with eighteen hand-coloured illustrations , is estimated to fetch £150–200,000 ( $265–350,000 ) . |
| 25 | THE ENGLAND captain 's name has appeared under several titles , but this happens to be the first full-length biography . |
| 26 | He 'd just become the first Briton to win two world titles on foreign soil and added : ‘ I want to be the first British fighter to win three world titles at different weights . ’ |
| 27 | Now , after three years planning , the 19-strong Operation Darc Star squad — led by Falklands war hero Lt Col Philip Neame — aims to be the first British success . |
| 28 | Through the club magazine , Tryline , it will also be an additional communication vehicle for their work and Will Carling has been asked to be the first honorary president of the club as he lead the very team which embodies the aspirations of the club itself . |
| 29 | But if it was to be the first triumphant scream of Morrissey 's revenge , then it was certainly a just reward for Johnny Marr . |
| 30 | A farmer has been using four oxen to plough a field in what 's believed to be the first public demonstration of the skill in almost twenty-five years . |