Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [verb] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A 70-year old woodland has become the first plantation forest to be declared a Site of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSI ) by English Nature . |
| 2 | EDINBURGH District Council 's Construction Skills Training programme has won the first UK award for the use of new technology in training . |
| 3 | In some companies reading e-mail has become the first task of the morning . |
| 4 | Researchers at Hitachi Europe Ltd 's Dublin Laboratory and the physics department at Trinity College have co-developed the first system to combine optoelectronic semiconductor arrays with complex neural networks . |
| 5 | Researchers at Hitachi Europe Ltd 's Dublin Laboratory and the physics department at Trinity College have co-developed the first system to combine optoelectronic semiconductor arrays with complex neural networks . |
| 6 | Wychavon Canoe Club have launched the first edition of their club newsletter . |
| 7 | Oracle Corp plans to release the first benchmarks run on its parallel server technology within the next few weeks . |
| 8 | The J. Paul Getty Museum has produced the first volume in a new series of fine quality facsimile editions of volumes from its manuscript collection . |
| 9 | In today 's issue of Nature , a team of scientists at the University of Bath and the Natural History Museum has taken the first step to explain why their shapes can be as diverse and striking as those of snowflakes . |
| 10 | Edinburgh District Council has become the first UK city authority to promote a car-pooling scheme , following the launch of a commercial venture earlier this year [ see ED 55 ] . |
| 11 | LOTHIAN REGIONAL Council has taken the first step towards a total ban on smoking from 1 January next year . |
| 12 | A county council has taken the first step towards a total ban on all fox hunting on council land . |
| 13 | The self-evident gap between fantasy and reality — which is that no government , anywhere , of any political complexion has got the first clue about how to organise society in the post-Cold War world — has led to an aimless disgruntlement , a poisonous mixture of envy and ennui . |
| 14 | In addition to the third instalment on the Cuyp , the national gallery has made the first instalment on a Cranage painting . |
| 15 | Is my child to have taken the first step with this opera for nothing … . |
| 16 | First , the gurus argued , this slump had produced the first fall in house prices since the early 1950s . |
| 17 | The acoustic front-end failed to detect the first vowel . |
| 18 | A THEME park on the former Windsor Safari Park site has cleared the first planning hurdle . |
| 19 | A pleasure steamer has made the first day trip down the Severn to the Devon coast for almost a century . |
| 20 | Western drug enforcement agents are trying to persuade the Bhutto government to enter , but such a move threatens to spill the first blood of Benazir 's fledgling democracy . |
| 21 | In a flurry of seminars both in the US and in Europe members of the team have presented the first results from the experiment . |
| 22 | Armed envoys of Life President Dr Hastings Banda had apprehended Chakufwa Chihana , the British-educated trade union leader mandated to sow the first seeds of a Malawi spring , and the Catholic church , a powerful ally , had fallen silent . |
| 23 | The families of British soldiers killed by the American airforce in the Gulf War have won the first stage of their bid to find out what really happened . |
| 24 | Barenboim has identified the First Symphony of the 54-year-old Corigliano as a work of great courage , and it was equally brave of him to take it on tour . |
| 25 | The Insured Person has to bear the first £25 of each and every claim , except in respect of claims for deposits only where the Insured Person has to bear the first £10 of each and every claim . |
| 26 | The Insured Person has to bear the first £25 of each and every claim , except in respect of claims for deposits only where the Insured Person has to bear the first £10 of each and every claim . |
| 27 | The Insured Person has to bear the first £25 of each and every claim . |
| 28 | The Insured Person has to bear the first £25 of each and every claim . |
| 29 | The Insured Person has to bear the first £25 of each and every claim . |
| 30 | ‘ unless … ( a ) the court has deprived the first defendant ( as mortgagee ) of any relevant costs ; or ( b ) the court has ordered taxation of any relevant costs on some other basis save where there is no inconsistency between such an order and the preservation of the first defendant 's contractual right to payment of such costs ( for example , where such an order has been , or is hereafter , made against the mortgagors or any of them and other persons joined as co-plaintiffs or co-defendants with the mortgagors or any of them ) . |