Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pron] be [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The economics ministry has kept mum about why it made its decision so abruptly , but most in the industry assume it is a first step towards rejoining an international quota system . |
| 2 | Though this technology is well-established in medicine , researchers in Japan 's electric power industry think they are the first to take tomography outdoors . |
| 3 | Pliny names Archermos in a family of Chiot sculptors , and another writer says he was the first to give Nike wings . |
| 4 | Compaq Computer Corp says it is the first major personal computer manufacturer to receive a 1993-1994 US General Services Administration Schedule contract , which runs to March 31 1994 and makes it easier for the federal government to buy Compaq products at pre-set prices . |
| 5 | Internal trimming allows a claim of better than +-0.25% multiplication error with no external trim and AD says it is the first type to offer fully differential , high input-impedance working on all inputs , including the Z input . |
| 6 | Asna claims it is the first product to incorporate more than one method of data processing in a single system . |
| 7 | Microport thinks it is the first Unix Labs licensee to make the compiler available in shrinkwrapped form . |
| 8 | Microport thinks it is the first USL licensee to make the compiler available in shrinkwrapped form . |
| 9 | A spokesman for the British Field Sports Society said it was the first time he had heard of this happening ; which prompted Chapman Pincher to write in saying that the same thing had happened to him in 1961 ( Daily Telegraph , 21 and 24 December 1987 ) . |
| 10 | When the 28-bedroom Sundial opened it was the first new hotel in the town for 240 years . |
| 11 | The company said it was the first step towards a broadening of its geographic and product base which would reduce dependency on the UK and on shoes . |
| 12 | Amalgamated Software claims it is the first product to incorporate more than one method of data processing in a single system . |