Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [vb pp] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children born in the United Kingdom to students , visitors or illegal immigrants no longer automatically acquire British citizenship at birth , but they will still be able to register as British citizens if either parent later becomes a citizen or settles in the United Kingdom , or if the child has spent the first ten years of its life in the country . |
| 2 | The Institute has become the first professional institution to be registered for its headquarters administrative operations under BS 5750 . |
| 3 | Reading Transport has become the first British bus company to run its buses on a fuel derived from oilseed rape . |
| 4 | The Belgian government has ordered the first multi-language version of Chemdata from the National Chemical Emergency Centre . |
| 5 | An Institute member has become the first chartered accountant to face trial on money laundering charges under the drug Trafficking Offence Act 1986 . |
| 6 | The survey has produced the first national estimate of below tolerable standard houses derived from consistently applied methods . |
| 7 | On behalf of CEPT , the Conference on European Posts and Telecommunications , the European Radiocommunications Office has completed the first Detailed Spectrum Investigation into the use of radio frequencies in the microwave or millimetric spectrum — between 3.4GHz and 105GHz . |