Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [verb] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SAAB has produced the first pictures of its first new car for quite some time , the new-look 900 . |
| 2 | The Northern General Hospital National Health Service Trust in Sheffield has become the first hospital in the UK to install a Fibre Distributed Data Interface network : supplied by Cray Communications Ltd , the network is intended to run between eight hospital departments . |
| 3 | CANCER drug campaigner Janet Murray has had the first tablets which may give her a chance of a normal life . |
| 4 | Paris-based Thomson-CSF SA 's Must Software International SA has announced the first versions of its Nomad applications generator for Unix , starting with IBM Corp systems . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , under-pressure manager Malcolm Crosby has warned the First Division not to write his team out of the promotion picture . |
| 6 | ARSENAL have made the first move towards landing Everton 's Martin Keown in a £2.5 million deal . |
| 7 | It was in this way that Galle came to make the first sighting of the planet now known as Neptune . |
| 8 | Despite announcing the projected two-year trip to the southern hemisphere expressly for this purpose , Gould began to publish the first parts of his Birds of Australia before he had even left . |
| 9 | By 9.30am yesterday morning , an hour after 90-year-old Gene Sarazen had bisected the first fairway with an open-ceremonial drive , a stain of sweat was already running down the spine of Gary Wolstenholme 's golf shirt as he tried to make head and tail of the practice putting green . |
| 10 | Sewell seeks to become the first coach to successfully guide a team to victory in both men 's and women 's cup finals . |
| 11 | As children , she and her sister Ruth had reckoned the first outing to pick primroses as the true herald of spring . |
| 12 | Although in 1927 Barbusse had attended the First Congress of Proletarian Writers held in Moscow , and although he had appeared to voice support for the new policy of subordinating the literary process to the construction of socialism , his actual writing practice was completely out of step with the doctrinaire ideas of RAPP . |
| 13 | From Titron had come the first man who could withstand radiation , be it from a bomb , or in deep space . |
| 14 | The rock star Midge Ure has become the first person to give a concert at the Oxford Union . |
| 15 | Sweden tried to take the first initiative only two days after the ending of the Maudling negotiations , inviting other states to send representatives to Stockholm to discuss how their trade policies might be better coordinated . |
| 16 | On Friday , Sept 13 , Seb Grieve made the first ascent of the outstanding rib right of Dangerous Crocodile Snoggin at Ramshaw . |
| 17 | Delaney had taken the first watch with Forster . |
| 18 | On the other hand , Spurs ' coaching double act of Ray Clemence and Doug Livermore opted for words of wisdom rather than wrath , after Liverpool had dominated the first half . |
| 19 | However , it quickly became clear that the opera would not be ready in time for September , even though Mozart had finished the first act by 22 August . |
| 20 | But Morland having won the first round is confident of surviving … |
| 21 | Claudia goes to get the first aid kit . |
| 22 | From such an unpromising start in 1980 , BR has become the first railway in the world to provide a long-distance passengerrailway service without subsidy . |
| 23 | We have not covered the fact that Hillingdon has become the first education authority in the country to have 75% of its secondary schools opted out . |
| 24 | Norway had become the first NATO member to establish diplomatic relations with Russia , following moves by Bulgaria and Hungary . |
| 25 | GRAHAM BARROW hopes to take the first step towards a brighter future for Chester City today . |
| 26 | Steve has become the first sales manager in the branch . |
| 27 | Without any shade of doubt , France deserved to win the first official Five Nations championship and — would have probably grabbed the Grand Slam as well — but for the Twickenham goal posts . |
| 28 | But Ruddock is history now as Lewis attempts to become the first Briton since Bob Fitzsimmons almost a century ago to land perhaps the most cherished prize in sport . |
| 29 | Researchers in Oxford have found the first evidence of a genetic cause for unexplained mental retardation in children . |
| 30 | Peterlee-based TRW REPA has become the first company in County Durham to be recognised as Investors in People , a training benchmark , by the County Durham Training and Enterprise Council . |