Example sentences of "[prep] [be] the first [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A wonderful old charabanc — a 1935 Guy Wolf — was chosen to lead the way and have the honour of being the first official vehicle to use the road . |
| 2 | For a period of his twenty year tenure , he served with 55 Squadron at Baghdad in the mid-1920s and , as related by his son Thomas , earned the distinction of being the first non-commissioned airman in the RAF to receive a commission during peace-time . |
| 3 | When the Company 's lease expired in 1892 , Lancaster 's services as manager were retained , thus giving him the distinction of being the first electric street tramway Manager , and upon his death the longest-serving . |
| 4 | All three of the above were in the House of Lords when they formed their ministries , so the distinction of being the first elected politician with a K to become Prime Minister is still available . |
| 5 | Mark Frame had the honour of being the first British member of the Bureau . |
| 6 | Its novelty lies in being the first formal account of language ability that is part of an overall theory of cognition . |
| 7 | It also claims to be the first European hotel with a direct connection to Reuter , offering 24 hour updates on world and financial news . |
| 8 | But , whatever the result , he is backing United to be the first Premier League champions . |
| 9 | Uniface Corp , Alameda , California claims to be the first proprietary language vendor to support IBM Corp 's new DB2/6000 relational database for AIX Unix on the RS/6000 . |
| 10 | Uniface Corp , Alameda , California claims to be the first proprietary language vendor to support IBM Corp 's new DB2/6000 relational database for AIX Unix on the RS/6000 ( UX No 428 ) . |
| 11 | Companion is claimed to be the first complete system to conform fully to the CT2 Common Air Interface CAI standard . |
| 12 | This week it introduced HP Distributed Smalltalk , claiming it to be the first complete implementation of the Object Management Group 's Common Object Request Broker Architecture specification for distributed computing . |
| 13 | It is thought to be the first such venture . |
| 14 | This is thought to be the first such judgment on a privatised water company . |
| 15 | The UK visit was reported to be the first official visit by a Vietnamese Foreign Minister since the end of the Vietnam War , and the talks were reported to have been held in an atmosphere of frankness and goodwill , with both sides keen to improve economic and diplomatic links and to co-operate fully on the issue of the repatriation of " boat people " from Hong Kong . |
| 16 | The resulting machine is being launched by Lenexa , Kansas-based DeskStation Technology as the ARCStation 1 , claimed to be the first personal computer to use the power of RISC in combination with an EISA chip set to provide a migration path for current personal computer users to high-end Windows NT applications . |
| 17 | Indeed the Post Office is believed to be the first major organisation to provide the details by the direct method . |
| 18 | BDO Seidman has won what is believed to be the first successful countersuit by an auditor against a former client . |
| 19 | I would like to be the first male editor of Vogue . |
| 20 | Margaret Iversen 's Alois Riegl : Art History and Theory promises to be the first general introduction to Riegl 's approach to art history , the context of his work and its relevance to contemporary critical thinking ( £22.50 ) . |
| 21 | Stratus claims to be the first fault-tolerant system vendor to ship the Unix System V.4 multiprocessing operating system . |
| 22 | In 893 , Tsar Simeon appointed Clement to be the first Slav bishop of the diocese of Velika ( Titov Veles ) , but he still maintained regular contact with the Ohrid School . |
| 23 | This house and Palazzo Durini ( see page 126 ) are believed to be the first two town houses to have been built in the city after the population had been decimated by plague in 1630 , when , it was thought , as many as 70,000 Milanese died . |
| 24 | ‘ Bilalian ’ replaced ‘ Muslim ’ ( Bilal was an Ethiopian thought to be the first black follower of the prophet Muhammad ) . |
| 25 | Here a building is shown which was probably the old Vicarage , later to be the first Halling school . |
| 26 | Sir George Grey is reputed to be the first white person ever to have seen the Wandjina images in 1838 . |
| 27 | Australia 's first illustrated book , believed to be the first leather-bound copy of any Australian book , The Birds of New South Wales , by John Lewin , published in Sydney in 1813 with eighteen hand-coloured illustrations , is estimated to fetch £150–200,000 ( $265–350,000 ) . |
| 28 | THE ENGLAND captain 's name has appeared under several titles , but this happens to be the first full-length biography . |
| 29 | He 'd just become the first Briton to win two world titles on foreign soil and added : ‘ I want to be the first British fighter to win three world titles at different weights . ’ |
| 30 | Now , after three years planning , the 19-strong Operation Darc Star squad — led by Falklands war hero Lt Col Philip Neame — aims to be the first British success . |