Example sentences of "be [verb] to [be] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are claimed to be the first ever to enable system administrators to monitor and manage all their computing resources — computers , networks , and relational database applications — from one central management console . |
| 2 | Carriers are expected to be the first users of the interface since it will significantly reduce the cost of building a new Frame Relay network or of extending an existing Frame Relay network . |
| 3 | We 're going to be the first men at the South Pole , and that flag is going to be first , too ! ’ |
| 4 | The moves to stem wildcat stoppages , condemned by unions and the Labour Party and the independent Industrial Society — are thought to be the first time ministers have sought to legislate against the individual . |
| 5 | All three of you are going to be the first victims of the Kershaw Worm . ’ |
| 6 | I was surprised to note a major historical inaccuracy in your excellent article ‘ The Democrats ' dilemma ’ ( April 20th ) , when you state ‘ Mr Bush might be flattered to be the first unopposed president . ’ |
| 7 | You frivolously suggest that Mr Bush might be flattered to be the first unopposed president . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The stations , designed by British scientists , are believed to be the first satellite-linked automatic weather stations . |
| 10 | The authorities in California are conducting investigations into the skiing and rafting accidents which are believed to be the first of their kind in the state . |
| 11 | Through the club magazine , Tryline , it will also be an additional communication vehicle for their work and Will Carling has been asked to be the first honorary president of the club as he lead the very team which embodies the aspirations of the club itself . |
| 12 | Although the Somerset levels is one of the strongholds of the country 's 3,000 barn owls , the pair were believed to be the first to breed in Avon for six years . |
| 13 | It is intended to be the first in a family of products — Amstrad suggests an A4 colour version for architects , a desktop feature-phone with pen-screen , and in-car version with built in CD that would project the user 's position on a map through data collected by global positioning satellite . |
| 14 | The project will therefore seek to identify the main implications of the trend towards the Regulatory State and is intended to be the first step towards a major research programme investigating the potentials and problems of regulation in practice across the whole spectrum of what we used to describe as the Welfare State . |
| 15 | Companion is claimed to be the first complete system to conform fully to the CT2 Common Air Interface CAI standard . |
| 16 | Lotus Development Corp and the Skytel unit of Mobile Telecommunications Technologies Inc plan joint development of technologies and applications to meet the demands of a growing wireless messaging market : first product from the agreement is a wireless messaging gateway for Lotus Notes , which is claimed to be the first US national wireless gateway for workgroup software — combining Notes and a SkyWord alphanumeric receiver , the gateway will create a Notes ‘ thinking mailbox ’ that can forward changes in information from a Notes server to SkyWord receivers , the firms say . |
| 17 | The HD-DOMS-to-Objectstore interface is claimed to be the first Common Object Request Broker Architecture-compliant interface available commercially and provides a shared repository for object types , object methods , and the instances of those objects . |
| 18 | His Crystallising Public Opinion ( 1923 ) is considered to be the first book dealing exclusively with public relations . |
| 19 | Los Altos , California-based Full Source Software Inc has begun shipping UniShred , a $150 suite of media erasure applications that irrevocably delete files and securely obliterate data in files , making any kind of retrieval impossible : it 's claimed to be the first Unix package to conform to the strictest government and commercial standards , directly replacing Unix 's rm utility . |
| 20 | A light air genoa is expected to be the first to be tested over the next few days . |
| 21 | It runs both Solaris 1.1 and 2.1 and is expected to be the first of a family of products . |
| 22 | It runs both Solaris 1.1 and 2.1 and is expected to be the first of a family of products . |
| 23 | And , rather than allow Eldorado to be a drain on the Corporation for years to come , the show is expected to be the first on his hit list . |
| 24 | This is expected to be the first of many similar cases to come to light as local councils draw up registers of contaminated land under the Environmental Protection Act . |
| 25 | The mini is a long way from what 's considered to be the first jukebox ; the Edison Phonograph . |
| 26 | This is said to be the first house built in the village . |
| 27 | In Florida , Miami 's POSLogic Corp is soon to announce its first product , the POSLogic 5000 Point of Sale System , which is said to be the first Unix-based system to incorporate both hardware and software as a fully integrated product , although NCR Corp , which has been slipping Unix processors in under its point-of-sale systems for several years , while making Unix invisible to the retailer , might demur . |
| 28 | The agreement is also seen as a landmark in that it is said to be the first time that Apple has licensed Macintosh technology under such an OEM agreement , terms of which were not disclosed . |
| 29 | It was built around the shrine of Saint Alban , a Roman centurion who is said to be the first person in Britain to be executed for the Christian faith . |
| 30 | Classes in ordinary schools are increasingly composed of pupils of different ethnic origin , cultural and religious persuasion , pupils who may have physical or sensory impairments , learning difficulties or social and emotional problems , since the neighbourhood school rather than the special school is seen to be the first choice for children 's education . |