Example sentences of "[is] the first [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ms Hoey is the first Labour frontbencher in the Commons to be sacked since Mr Smith replaced Neil Kinnock as party leader . |
| 2 | McDonald 's is the first major company in the fast food sector to be approved by the Hotel & Catering Training Company ( HCTC ) to operate NVQs . |
| 3 | ‘ A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life ’ — Oscar Wilde . |
| 4 | John Major is the first prime minister in 40 years to have any background in local government . |
| 5 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that he is the first Prime Minister in history to attend the annual general meeting of the National Farmers Union ? |
| 6 | As far as I am aware , this is the first homoeopathic book in birds . |
| 7 | Memorex Telex NV 's Peripherals Group in Milpitas , California has made good on its promise to offer a version of its 5100 Automated Tape Library for IBM Corp AS/400 9406 processors , and claims that it is the first such library in the AS/400 market . |
| 8 | This time the communist threat has been absent ; this is the first general election in a major European country since the Cold War ended and the Berlin Wall fell . |
| 9 | Richard III is the first full-scale hypocrite in Shakespeare , using the dramatic structure I have described , based on the dichotomies near/far , truth/lies , with supreme energy and skill . |
| 10 | It is the first Marxist book in which anthropological data predominate . |
| 11 | The greatest ‘ catch ’ of all is the first recorded breeding in Britain of the little bittern . |
| 12 | Just off the presses at mid-price is the first massive delivery in a one hundred volume , 119 CD series celebrating ‘ Leonard Bernstein : The Royal Edition ’ . |
| 13 | Called Magellan Passport , it is the first cell-based product in the Canadian 's Magellan networking range and can handle both cell and frame switching . |
| 14 | The Altarpiece in Renaissance Venice by Peter Humpfrey is the first detailed study in English of the Renaissance altarpiece and focuses on Venice from 1450–1530 . |
| 15 | It 's the first such attack in Gloucestershire , although other forces are investigating similar incidents . |
| 16 | ‘ Because it 's the first decent break in the weather we 've had . |