Example sentences of "in [noun] [verb] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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1 | The Northern General Hospital National Health Service Trust in Sheffield has become the first hospital in the UK to install a Fibre Distributed Data Interface network : supplied by Cray Communications Ltd , the network is intended to run between eight hospital departments . |
2 | A village which has been hit by a big increase in crime has become the first in Britain to install video cameras on its roads . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | Researchers in Oxford have found the first evidence of a genetic cause for unexplained mental retardation in children . |
5 | Former Olympic XC skiier , Croasdale is the man in form having won the first two rounds of the British championship breaking course records in the process , and clocking a useful 63–47 for the half marathon in York . |
6 | The journey is a repeat of an epic voyage 60 years ago when nuns from the Carmel Convent in Darlington travelled to found the first Carmelite convent in Johannesburg . |
7 | Gwen Jones , who started here banking career in Abersoch has become the first woman in Oxfordshire to manage a National Westminster Bank branch . |