Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [vb pp] [art] first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Middlesbrough has become the first local authority in Cleveland to approve a proposed licensing scheme for doormen . |
| 2 | The new republic of Hungary has become the first eastern European government to commit to open systems and will use X/Open 's XPG brand in procurement . |
| 3 | Earlier , Malcolm Pyrah had won the first Olympic Talent Spotters Championship on It 's Me and , though he does not believe the small seven-year-old chestnut is potential Olympic material , he echoed the widespread praise for this new series of competitions . |
| 4 | Dave Walsh and Roger Mear have made the first British ascent of mighty Nanga Parbat , 8,165 metres . |
| 5 | A pilot from Wiltshire has become the first British serviceman to be decorated in Bosnia . |
| 6 | THE Isle of Man has become the first British authority to issue plastic identity card driving licences with tamper-proof colour photographs , using a £30,000 digital imaging system developed by Hitachi and NBS Card Systems of Weybridge , Surrey . |
| 7 | Sir John Cockroft , the Director of Harwell , had won a Nobel Prize for his 1932 work where , with the prototype high energy nuclear accelerator , he and Ernest Walton had made the first artificial disintegration , or fission , of atomic nuclei . |
| 8 | The BBC had missed the first international wicket of the season , in preference to a weather report and some local tittle-tattle . |
| 9 | Two studies in Sweden have provided the first convincing evidence of a link between exposure to electromagnetic radiation from overhead power lines and the incidence of cancer , according to officials from the Swedish National Board for Industrial and Technical Development . |
| 10 | Although Mao has been the subject of countless biographies , David Goodman has written the first fitting biography of Mr Deng . |
| 11 | In contesting the run-off , Young had become the first black candidate to progress beyond the primary stage of the electoral process for any state-wide office within the state of Georgia . |
| 12 | Although Newcomen had produced the first practical steam-engine in the early years of the eighteenth century , it was capable only of a simple back-and-forth or up-and-down motion and therefore disappeared under-ground to be used for pumping water out of mines . |
| 13 | Companies as diverse as IBM and Amstrad have reported the first full-year losses in their histories . |
| 14 | Adele Graham from Pest Control South West has become the first female supervisor . |
| 15 | Herman Ouseley has become the first black chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality . |
| 16 | Latest news from the expedition to climb Ultar , Pakistan 's highest unclimbed summit at nearly 7,300 metres , is that while no result has emerged from the tussle with the main objective , Mick Fowler and Craig Jones have made the first British ascents of Bublimiting ( 5,750 metres ) and Hunza Peak ( 6,250 metres ) . |
| 17 | In the week before the visit , Keating had become the first Prime Minister to suggest that Australia drop the Union Flag device from its own , further fuelling public debate between republicans and monarchists about Australia 's status . |
| 18 | This page and View from City Road , page 31 Mitsubishi listing : Mitsubishi has became the first Japanese general trading company to be listed on the London Stock Exchange . |
| 19 | Yet if the IPPR has its way , the Labour Party will be adopting parent-friendly , talent-rewarding policies well before Lord James Douglas-Hamilton has got the first secondary school to say goodbye to our authoritarian system . |