Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [vb -s] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | A pleasure steamer has made the first day trip down the Severn to the Devon coast for almost a century . |
| 2 | An Institute member has become the first chartered accountant to face trial on money laundering charges under the drug Trafficking Offence Act 1986 . |
| 3 | A THEME park on the former Windsor Safari Park site has cleared the first planning hurdle . |
| 4 | 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 ] . |
| 5 | The Vale of White Horse district council has become the first to set its Poll Tax at £412 . |
| 6 | EDINBURGH District Council 's Construction Skills Training programme has won the first UK award for the use of new technology in training . |
| 7 | A county council has taken the first step towards a total ban on all fox hunting on council land . |
| 8 | The Faculty of Public Health Medicine has published the first report of a working party set up to investigate available indicators of the nation 's health . |
| 9 | Dun & Bradstreet Software Corp has launched the first of its Unix applications from the former Management Science America base in Atlanta . |
| 10 | Oracle Corp plans to release the first benchmarks run on its parallel server technology within the next few weeks . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Empress Software claims to have the first RDBMS and 4GL running on MACH on a 486 : The port was done for TRW Financial Systems which is standardising on MACH . |