Example sentences of "[art] first [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was also the first to print five more Erasmus titles in English or Latin , the latest being Sir Thomas Chaloner 's translation , The praise of folie , 1549 ( STC 10500 ) . |
| 2 | He grinned at the enthusiasm ‘ Or that Martel , a French speleologist , was the first to explore these caves in 1896 . |
| 3 | Joe Turi , the first to go clear in the jump-off , was pushed back to third place on Country Classics Vital . |
| 4 | The Revenue is centralising its cases on this point at claims branch and of course the value to the Revenue of fighting these cases is far greater than the value to individual taxpayers ; on the other hand , the financial risk for the individual taxpayer of being the first to take such a case before the Special Commissioners or higher , would be extremely high . |
| 5 | It was n't a bad-looking saucer and Rex was the first to appreciate that . |
| 6 | Consequently these areas are the first to exhibit extra fat and the last to actually reduce . |
| 7 | Immediately everyone charged around the room attempting to be the first to touch all the walls . |
| 8 | DENNIS SILK , a three-time Cambridge Blue who also played for Somerset , was names as MCC 's next president at the club 's AGM at Lord 's on May 6 , Silk , 60 , who retired recently as Warden of Radley College , takes over from Michael Melluish on Oct 1 , and will be the first to spend two years in office , under anew rule passed at the AGM . |
| 9 | The 1911 Census was the first to ask detailed questions about fertility , child survival , and occupation ( Craig 1987 ) and to use a form of classification of social class ( Szreter 1984 ) . |
| 10 | Timaeus , a Sicilian historian albeit resident in Athens , was the first to collect extensive information on the past of the Romans . |
| 11 | The historians Ephorus and Timaeus , who in the fourth and third centuries B.C. were the first to collect extensive information about Gaul and Spain , do not seem ever to have visited these countries . |
| 12 | Among the first to exploit this property on an industrial scale in the eighteenth century were William Worthington and William Bass , and when trade marks began to be registered under the Trade Marks Act of 1875 , the very first was William Bass 's familiar red triangle . |
| 13 | Probably Schoenberg was the first to exploit this system in his Chamber Symphony Op. 9 ( 1906 ) . |
| 14 | ‘ It would be very appropriate for Courtaulds — the first company in the world to exploit viscose rayon — to repeat history at the end of the century and be the first to exploit this new technology . ’ |
| 15 | And it would be very appropriate for Courtaulds — the first company in the world to exploit viscose rayon — to repeat history at the end of the century and be the first to exploit this new technology . |
| 16 | Held 2–8 March , the fair enjoyed twice as much space in its new premises , the Grand Palais , as it had done in its former venue , the basement of the Hotel George V. Still an all-French affair despite the eagerness of foreign galleries to get in , this year 's Salon was the first to include nine contemporary dealers , including Gerald Piltzer who made a last minute decision to join in . |
| 17 | This study , to be carried out by Professor Roy King and Dr Kathleen McDermott of the Centre for Social Policy Research and Development at UCNW , will be one of the first to include both prisoners and their families in the same study . |
| 18 | News At Ten was the first news programme to get in the ratings Top Ten , the first to employ two newsreaders ( Alistair Burnett and Andrew Gardner on the first edition ) , and the first to make use of foreign reports and the catchphrase ‘ Brent Sadler , News At Ten , Dagenham ’ . |
| 19 | NDT Eagle 's training facility can now boast that it is the first to employ three ASNT level III accredited tutors . |
| 20 | The Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) later claimed responsibility for the attack , the first to cause civilian deaths on the mainland since February 1991 [ see pp. 38019-20 ] . |
| 21 | Christians involved in the relief of poverty have been the first to point this out . |
| 22 | President Yoweri Museveni 's government is the first to give serious thought to the Karimojong problem . |
| 23 | It 's the 10th they 've raised , but the first to give these problems . |
| 24 | We were the first to automate all that . ’ |
| 25 | However , as leaders of the Christian community the clergy should be the first to foster good relationships through effective communication . |
| 26 | ‘ Is n't it strange , Master Southgate , you are not the first to say that . |
| 27 | Michel Foucault is not the first to say many of the things he argues . |
| 28 | Six is best remembered for the self-registering thermometer which he invented , the first to record maximum and minimum temperatures on a single instrument . |
| 29 | Regrettably , Saudi Arabia was the first to lead this campaign within OPEC . |
| 30 | The first to enjoy any degree of commercial success was SideKick which is primarily aimed at the technical user rather than the businessman . |