Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] the first [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ambergate , Brighouse , Yeadon … the question is , will Bivouac be the first famous band to come from Derby , even though they do n't really come from Derby ? |
| 2 | The research is the first sustained investigation of the subject in this country . |
| 3 | Our study is the first large scale research study of the extent , nature and reliability of UK financial graphs . |
| 4 | Aimed at young families , small business users and aspiring professionals , the car is the first new model to emerge from Rover since the 800 series in 1986 . |
| 5 | But , but but ending feudalism is the first important stance . |
| 6 | The police force was the first public sector occupation to achieve widows ' pensions as such . |
| 7 | This demonstration was the first independent action on the part of a teachers ' association ; previously , they had been government controlled . |
| 8 | BBC 's ‘ That 's Life ’ consumer television programme was the first outside customer , followed by Barclaycard mainly for consumer issues and Newcastle College of Arts and Technology for employment and benefit issues . |
| 9 | Although the Criterion was the first English periodical to print the work of Cocteau , Valery and Proust , it seems always to have been Eliot 's fate to espouse causes just at the point when they are about to disappear or to disintegrate . |
| 10 | ‘ Queen were the first big band to really plunge into the South American market , back in 1981 , ’ explains Neil . |
| 11 | And it is not insignificant that the quarterly of which he is the editor is the first British journal which has attempted to relate the British mind to the total European mind ; that has attempted a rational synthesis of the traditions of Roman culture ; that has , in a word , contemplated order . |
| 12 | The relevance is that Bagehot was the first political commentator . |
| 13 | My parents thought my marriage was the first sensible thing I 'd ever done . |
| 14 | Central News South was the first regional news programme in Britain to experiment with sub-titles for the deaf and hard of hearing last January . |
| 15 | The Fourth Lateran Council was the first oecumenical council of the medieval period where the two orders , clerical and lay , were summoned , but they were there essentially to witness declarations of the faith , not to treat . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | This article is the first sustained work published on Leapor and some of its bibliographical observations are of great value . |
| 18 | The move is the first official admission of serious concern over adequacy of anti-fire measures in royal buildings . |
| 19 | This meeting was the first direct contact between the two countries since their acceptance of the August 1988 ceasefire agreement [ see pp. 35600 ; 36167 ; 36171 ] , although the Iraqi side had in April and May 1990 proposed the holding of a summit meeting in Mecca , Saudi Arabia . |
| 20 | Domitian 's decree was the first recorded attempt to reduce a European winelake . |
| 21 | The coins which bear his name are the first Northumbrian silver coins . |
| 22 | The metro is the first full-scale railway system to have driverless trains and it can run up to 60 two-car trains an hour during peak periods ( New Scientist . |
| 23 | ‘ A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life ’ — Oscar Wilde . |
| 24 | The whole Manc/baggy palaver was the first big wave of Britpop cool that 's never owned an NUJ card . |
| 25 | Saturday 's rally was the first real indication of how much support the workers have attracted . |
| 26 | His response to this development in O'Keeffe 's art was the first positive assessment of the result of the effort she had made to have her intentions as an artist redefined . |
| 27 | As the cations are leached , the acidity rises and the phosphorus becomes re-locked with the iron and aluminium , so that in some cases at least , phosphorus is the first limiting nutrient . |
| 28 | As you approach Tintagel the headland fortress is the first visible landmark . |
| 29 | Organised by the Henry Moore Foundation , the City of Paris and the British Council , the exhibition is the first important show devoted to Moore in France since 1977 , when sculptures and drawings were shown in the Orangerie and the Tuileries gardens and the artists ' graphics were exhibited in the Bibliothèque Nationale . |
| 30 | The role is the first major link between Marketing and Production , being involved at the earliest possible stages of transforming customer needs and wants into practical possibilities . |