Example sentences of "have [been] [vb pp] [verb] the first " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 As my son has again won great honour by his composition of the dramatic serenata , he has been asked to write the first opera for the coming carnival in Milan and immediately afterwards the second opera for the Teatro San Benedetto in Venice [ this second commission was never , in fact , carried out ] …
3 ( And Baden-Powell had been asked to become the first chairman of the Juvenile Organizations Committee , established by the Home Secretary , Herbert Samuel in 1916 . )
4 Goodall had been invited to referee the First Division game between Tarbes and Brive .
5 In Britain it was the face of William Shakespeare that had been chosen to become the first hologramic image used on credit cards .
6 By this time Mozart had been commissioned to write the first opera for the carnival in Milan the following year .
7 Around 20 industry chiefs , including David Sainsbury , chairman of J Sainsbury , and John Towers , managing director of Rover , have been summoned to attend the first of a series of ‘ round table ’ meetings on May 25th .
8 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 .
9 There are even some ( not you , of course ! ) who have been known to lick the first finger of the right hand and dip it into the bottom of the packet , so that those tiny remaining crumbs of crisp can be finished off .
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