Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [to-vb] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | More thorough stock control completed the changed Southern scene as virtually all EMU units were renumbered to allow the first two digits to match their fleet status . |
| 4 | 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 ] . |
| 5 | A longitudinal study of over 1,100 young people has been extended to cover the first four years in the labour market , from ages 16 to 20 years . |
| 6 | With the dam wall now standing at 57 metres , this year 's monsoon is expected to flood the first few villages . |
| 7 | ERS-1 is expected to return the first quantitive data on these processes at the poles . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In Britain it was the face of William Shakespeare that had been chosen to become the first hologramic image used on credit cards . |
| 10 | However , Walker found that if the BFP algorithm was altered to reflect the first three levels of SPAR 's ordering given above , correct results were obtained by eight of the 21 pronouns resolved correctly by Hobbs but incorrectly by the original BFP . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The veteran Shankill councillor was set to become the first outgoing Lord Mayor in Belfast 's history not to be re-elected . |
| 13 | 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 . |