Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | With Markham , LASMO has achieved two milestones in the British oil industry — the field is the first offshore development lying across the UK/Netherlands median line , and it is producing the first gas to be exported from the UK into the Continent . |
| 2 | The Library is exhibiting the first of series of paintings produced by members of Eve Bennett 's RBGE Botanical Painting Course . |
| 3 | The Office des Communications Sociales of Montreal , Canada , is holding the first national conference on the Church and communication in Cap-Rouge , 4–6 June . |
| 4 | The Auditing Practices Board is facing the first test of its credibility . |
| 5 | Bavaria is facing the first major sell-off of an historic private collection since the war , and they have consulted Britain on how to respond , as England is all too used to such dispersals ( Yet another took place last month with the sale of Pitchford Hall ) . |
| 6 | After just 4 games Swindon 's John Gorman is facing the first pain barrier of the season ; 4 defeats and 14 goals conceded . |
| 7 | She 's abroad but is getting the first available flight back . |
| 8 | Joe Robertson , of Lochend , who is starting the first year of Bachelor of Education ( Technology ) course at the Moray House College of Education . |
| 9 | The parent who shows strong disapproval , smacking the child or forcibly removing its hand from the offending area is sowing the first seeds of inhibition or sexual disorder . |
| 10 | I 'm dead against this , er , on principle , I think it 's cutting the first sod of the hole that you 're preparing to dig yourselves . |
| 11 | In collaboration with the other UK Research Councils and with international bodies and the European Community , the Economic and Social Research Council is undertaking the first phase of its Global Environmental Change Initiative . |
| 12 | Wendy Georgeson , of Lerwick , who is entering the first year of an LLB law degree course at the University of Edinburgh ; |
| 13 | THE British Government is taking the first tentative steps to standardise the computers and computer equipment that are bought by civil servants . |
| 14 | Mute 's stance follows the news that music industry magazine Music Week is taking the first step to redefining the term ‘ independent ’ by running ‘ a genre chart open to all-comers ’ , next to ‘ an old-style distribution chart ’ , from September 19 . |
| 15 | We may assume , however , that he will have a better understanding of the purpose of the author in constructing the text in the way it is constructed if he knows that it is written in the late nineteenth century ( which will account for some differences in code , in Hymes ' terms ) in Victorian England ( which will account for the reference to a Reformatory ) and that the author is constructing the first English detective story , narrating the events from the point of view of four different participants , whose characters are in part revealed by the narrative style which the author assigns to them . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , and until 14 December , Gilles Peyroulet is hosting the first solo exhibition in France of the American Ronald Jones , a neo-conceptual sculptor who manifests a special dislike of politically-committed art . |
| 17 | From such protests , and meetings in family homes , grew the Stroud based Menigitis Trust , which is organising the first international conference , being held in Britain next week , aimed at wiping out the disease . |
| 18 | He has not learned how to love properly , how to relate with a woman in a caring sense but , above all , he has not learned how to differentiate between an adolescent who is feeling the first stirring of her hormones and a fully-grown woman who is properly able to make her own emotional and sexual choices . |
| 19 | At Hansaring 77 , Désiré Feuerle is featuring the first one-woman show in Germany of Italian artist Ilaria Bona . |