Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | This usually entailed Branson being the first to let off fire-extinguishers , initiate a food fight , or dress up in fishnet stockings and make-up for the inevitable fancy-dress party . |
| 2 | Marks and Spencer is the first Northern Ireland company to enter this year 's Employees in the Community Awards . |
| 3 | JEANETTE CUNNINGHAM is the first black woman to be appointed to Bolton 's adoption and fostering panel . |
| 4 | Markham is the first offshore development lying across the UK/Netherlands median line . |
| 5 | Although Crufts is the first show of the year , the Championship shows continue throughout the summer . |
| 6 | Members of a hospital support group in Castlewellan wrote to all three European MPs in the province and Dr Paisley is the first to respond , saying he will lobby the Eastern Health Board to prevent the proposed run-down at the hospital . |
| 7 | O'Leary is the first off the production line . |
| 8 | Excalibur Technologies Corp , developer of the PixTex/EFS document image management and control system which has been well received in the US , launched a UK subsidiary last month : Excalibur Technologies International Ltd , based in Windsor , Berkshire is the first of several operations the company plans for Europe . |
| 9 | ‘ Erik is the first to admit that when he first joined us , he found the physical demands a bit difficult , ’ said Clemence . |
| 10 | ‘ Edward is the first royal star , ’ one newspaper wrote , ‘ and he is now the most famous man in the world . |
| 11 | This Figaro is the first time he has tackled an opera written by someone other than himself . |
| 12 | Freud is the first , and only , contemporary artist whom he has represented . |
| 13 | The visit to Wagner 's Swiss home , Tribschen , in mid-May was the first of over twenty such visits made between 1869 and 1872 , the year in which first BT appeared and then , a few months later , Wagner , with his wife Cosima , moved to illegitimate daughter of Franz Liszt and wife of Wagner 's friend Hans von Bulow , eloped with Wagner in 1866 and married him in 1870 . |
| 14 | Sir Billy Butlin was the first to deal with the problem of the straying guest in his original holidays camps . |
| 15 | Doc Paisley was the first man I ever heard preach to me directly that I was sinner , that God loved me and that Jesus died for me … |
| 16 | Hill was the first to speak of muscle activity in terms of costs and expenditures , and he originated the term ‘ oxygen debt ’ . |
| 17 | John Michell was the first to draw attention in print to the similarity between such structures , with their layers of organic ( earth ) and inorganic ( rock ) material , to Reich 's orgone energy accumulators . |
| 18 | And Sandeman was the first port company to acknowledge publicly that sales were a crucial aspect to any business . |
| 19 | Bengal was the first region in the Indian sub-continent to come under the British rule , and the Bengali middle class the first among the Asian intelligentsias to respond to the western presence . |
| 20 | Dulcie Howes was the first of them . |
| 21 | ‘ Tosca was the first score I came to grips with , and what a score ! |
| 22 | David was the first of her children to wed and Laura got on well with her first in-law , welcoming her into the family as well as the company . |
| 23 | Möllemann 's visit to Taiwan was the first by a German federal minister . |
| 24 | Right-winger Alan Linton was the first casualty when he was stretchered off with a double break to a leg after 16 minutes . |
| 25 | ‘ FDC was the first step ’ , says Mr Johnson , ‘ and now we 're using it to feed into the EIS Commander . ’ |
| 26 | Surrey was the first landscape she had experienced that could be called feminine . |
| 27 | Wright was the first of Souness 's multi-million pound recruits back in the summer of 1991 , but his fortunes took a savage nosedive in September after a string of poor Liverpool results against Aston Villa , Chesterfield and Wimbledon . |
| 28 | Bert Weald was the first to enter and he put his cross to mark the receipt of his year 's wages . |
| 29 | It is possible that the organizers had misread the calendar , believing that Saturday was the first of April , not the third ? |
| 30 | The trial of Mr Subono and Mr Nugroho was the first time in many years that the law was used to try ‘ leftists ’ rather than Muslim activists . |