Example sentences of "the first us [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Digital Equipment Corp is the first US computer major to open a wholly owned subsidiary in Romania , its seventh in the old Eastern Bloc . |
| 2 | The probe would be the first US craft to visit Mars since 1976 . |
| 3 | November 6 : Night fighters , with emphasis on the 50th anniversary of the first US Navy night fighter intercept , with the F4U Corsair . |
| 4 | In 1856 the first US consul , Townsend Harris , arrived in Japan , and it was largely due to his tenacity , and his use of the British as bogeymen , that the July 1858 US Japan Treaty of Amity and Commerce was concluded . |
| 5 | The MMI was the first US index option to be traded outside the US , and is specifically designed to enable European investors to deal in US stocks before Wall Street opens . |
| 6 | It was the first US test of the prince 's popularity since his split from the Princess of Wales . |
| 7 | Sun has followed ICL Plc in adopting Boulder , Colorado-based Exabyte Corp 's 5Gb EXB-8500 Cartridge Tape Subsystem , becoming the first US firm to do so . |
| 8 | BRITAIN should hear the first US election result around 11.30pm tonight . |
| 9 | And as the first US Ambassador to the Communist regime in Beijing , he believed that secret emissaries to his old Chinese contacts was the way to launch his personal brand of presidential diplomacy . |
| 10 | The first US space walks for five years were made during the shuttle mission , one in an emergency to free an antenna on the GRO which had failed to operate , and the other to test equipment for the construction of the proposed Freedom space station . |
| 11 | The CD market in London started in 1967 with the issue of the first US dollar CD ( that is , it was strictly the euro-CD , ECD , market ) . |
| 12 | ‘ George Bush to be the first US President to visit a free Cuba ’ headlines the far-right Miami Diario de las Americas , carrying , on its inside page , details of how to phone Cuba and send over food parcels , as well as where to register your confiscated property for repossession after the regime has gone . |
| 13 | In so doing he became the first US President since Harry S. Truman to veto a major spending bill . |
| 14 | He was a founding member of the John Birch Society , an ultra-right group named after the first US soldier to be killed in the Korean War . |
| 15 | It is no accident that 1971 was the year of the first US trade deficit , the year that the US devalued the dollar and abandoned the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates , and also the year that Nixon and Kissinger went to Moscow and initiated detente . |
| 16 | Intercity buses in the United States carry 375 million passengers a year across more than a billion miles — quite a legacy from the first US bus service which operated on Long Island in 1899 . |
| 17 | The first US bank branches were established mainly in China and Latin America to facilitate trade finance and supplement , in most cases , unsophisticated local banking structures . |
| 18 | Among names that immediately spring to mind are those of Sydney Schanberg , the former New York Times correspondent who was in Phnom Penh at the time of the fall , and whose subsequent search for his Cambodian assistant , Dith Pran , was documented in Roland Joffé 's film The Killing Fields , who arrived in Indo- China at the age of 21 and was there from 1970 to mid-1975 , first with Agence France Presse , then as a stringer for The Sunday Times — when all the other journalists were getting out , Swain was either brave or foolhardy enough to fly back into Phnom Penh in time for its fall ; William Shawcross who , along with many others , covered the Vietnam war for The Sunday Times and who subsequently became obsessed with the fate of Cambodia , an obsession that resulted first in Sideshow , which exposed the role of Nixon and Kissinger , and then in The Quality of Mercy , a study of the work of the Red Cross in Cambodia ; John Pilger , the British-based Australian journalist whose work on Cambodia may have had little concrete effect but has at least helped to ensure that the tragic country will never disappear into oblivion ; Philip Caputo , who went initially to Vietnam in March 1965 as a 23-year-old Marine officer with the first US combat group sent to Indo-China and returned in 1975 as a correspondent to report on what was left of the war . |
| 19 | Between 400 and 500 Iraqi troops were reported captured during the fighting , while 31 US personnel were described as missing or captured , including a female Marine who was thought to be the first US woman soldier to be captured by an enemy force . |
| 20 | Bobby Fischer beats Boris Spassky and becomes the first US chess champion : posing the question , Where is Reykjavik ? |