Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The principles and example of the Revolution helped to inspire the first successful slave revolt in the Caribbean in Haiti , as well as the political independence movements of South America . |
| 2 | Sharp Corp aims to become the first Japanese company to make colour liquid crystal displays overseas when it starts manufacturing its super-twisted nematic displays — the lower-cost , lower performance colour displays — at its Sharp Microelectronics Technology Inc in Camas , Washington . |
| 3 | And , at the start of the 1940s , a baseball administrator named Branch Rickey began his search for the man destined to become the first black player in a white team . |
| 4 | The audience held their breath in one collective sigh as the orchestra began to play the first few bars of ‘ Strolling with Nancy ’ . |
| 5 | The SPAR system seems to represent the first explicit attempt to work out solutions to all four problems . |
| 6 | Shot entirely on location in South Central LA , the film aims to give the first true picture of what life is like in the ‘ LA Hood ’ . |
| 7 | NCR Corp claims to have the first mainframe-class system using Intel Corp 's Pentium chip with the launch of its System 3555 symmetrical multiprocessor , announced yesterday . |
| 8 | NCR Corp claims to have the first mainframe-class system using Intel Corp 's Pentium chip with the launch of its System 3555 symmetrical multiprocessor , announced today . |