Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [was/were] the first to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The election was the first to be called under the new Constitution , ratified by a popular referendum in August [ see p. 39042 ] , which reduced the power of the president . |
| 2 | The budget was the first to be based on President Hashemi Rafsanjani 's development plan for 1989-93 , which had been adopted after considerable debate at the end of January 1990 . |
| 3 | The study was the first to be conducted on one of Britain 's beaches which fails to meet European sewage pollution standards . |
| 4 | The market for places in the sun was the first to be hit when high interest rates and the recession at home began to bite but , with mortgage rates now in single figures , people are once more looking abroad . |
| 5 | The conference was the first to be held by the union since the 1981 convention which had followed its first registration as a legal union [ see p. 31213 ] . |
| 6 | The assembly was the first to be held since April 1987 , when Mahathir had narrowly survived a leadership challenge , a contest which subsequently led to a split within the party [ see pp. 35459 ; 35773 ; 36657 ] . |
| 7 | The assembly was the first to be held since 1987 when Mahathir narrowly survived a leadership challenge from Razaleigh , a contest which subsequently led to a split within UMNO . |
| 8 | The plenum was the first to be held since the party 's seventh congress in June [ see pp. 38271-72 ] . |
| 9 | This part of the embankment was the first to be built to the designs of B. Grueber between 1841 and 1845 . |
| 10 | Founded in 1989 , the company was the first to be set up by the University 's technology transfer unit . |
| 11 | The party was the first to winter in Antarctica . |
| 12 | The visit was the first to Israel by a Soviet Foreign Minister . |
| 13 | The visit was the first to China by a leader of a major industrialized country since the June 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre . |
| 14 | The bulletin was the first to be issued by the hospital since the Queen Mother was taken there last night suffering what Buckingham Palace described then as a ‘ slight tightening of the throat ’ . |