Example sentences of "be [verb] [to-vb] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Members of the Department of Social Anthropology and the Audio-Visual Aids Unit Cambridge are collaborating to make the first experimental videodisc at Cambridge University . |
| 2 | The company has also been commissioned to undertake the first quadrennial inspection of HM Customs and Excise 's portfolio of historic buildings both in Scotland and the north of England . |
| 3 | Significantly , while Philips have been hurrying to launch the first full size CD-I players , Sony — notionally , Philips ' CD-I partners — have made no announcements about CD-I plans other than to show the palmtop device and to speak obliquely about other announcements to follow . |
| 4 | Cytoplasmic incompatibility bacteria have been shown to disrupt the first mitotic divisions in fertilized eggs of incompatible crosses in Nasonia , Drosophila simulans and Culex pipiens . |
| 5 | After much debate they agreed that the parliamentary group and the government should negotiate with those parties wishing to phase out nuclear energy by 2010 without being bound to close the first nuclear power station by 1995 , the date envisaged by the 1988 legislation [ see also p. 37197 ] . |
| 6 | ERS-1 is expected to return the first quantitive data on these processes at the poles . |
| 7 | If the plan proceeds , then Dangerfield is set to become the first significant tourist facility to commemorate the history of textile manufacturing in the Borders . |
| 8 | The bank is planning a European and American roadshow on April 28 and is negotiating to become the first Portuguese company with a full overseas listing on one of the American stock exchanges . |
| 9 | A SINGING Sikh is hoping to become the first Asian to be listed in the Guinness Book of Records — as a chartbuster . |
| 10 | Glasgow is planning to become the first Scottish city to ban the consumption of alcohol in the street . |
| 11 | In Britain it was the face of William Shakespeare that had been chosen to become the first hologramic image used on credit cards . |
| 12 | She was damned if she was going to make the first conciliatory move ; it would blunt the point of all she had done in Waterford . |
| 13 | The years in east London had given him an insight into the restricted lives of inner-city youth and when , in 1930 , he was invited to become the first national secretary of the newly formed Youth Hostels Association , he readily accepted . |
| 14 | The veteran Shankill councillor was set to become the first outgoing Lord Mayor in Belfast 's history not to be re-elected . |
| 15 | Despite being outnumbered , unaware of the enemy 's dispositions and ignorant of the terrain , Hamilton was ordered to make the first British landings on 25 April at the southern tip of the peninsula near Cape Helles , while Anzac troops went ashore about 24km/15mls farther up the Aegean coast near Gaba Tepe . |