Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [vb pp] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dun & Bradstreet Software Corp has launched the first of its Unix applications from the former Management Science America base in Atlanta . |
| 2 | A 70-year old woodland has become the first plantation forest to be declared a Site of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSI ) by English Nature . |
| 3 | SAAB has produced the first pictures of its first new car for quite some time , the new-look 900 . |
| 4 | The Northern General Hospital National Health Service Trust in Sheffield has become the first hospital in the UK to install a Fibre Distributed Data Interface network : supplied by Cray Communications Ltd , the network is intended to run between eight hospital departments . |
| 5 | Middlesbrough has become the first local authority in Cleveland to approve a proposed licensing scheme for doormen . |
| 6 | CANCER drug campaigner Janet Murray has had the first tablets which may give her a chance of a normal life . |
| 7 | A BABY ostrich called Linford after the Olympic flyer has become the first of his kind to be born in Britain outside a zoo . |
| 8 | Paris-based Thomson-CSF SA 's Must Software International SA has announced the first versions of its Nomad applications generator for Unix , starting with IBM Corp systems . |
| 9 | EDINBURGH District Council 's Construction Skills Training programme has won the first UK award for the use of new technology in training . |
| 10 | An Oxford priest has become the first in the country to announce he 'll leave the Church of England following the vote to ordain women priests . |
| 11 | A village which has been hit by a big increase in crime has become the first in Britain to install video cameras on its roads . |
| 12 | In some companies reading e-mail has become the first task of the morning . |
| 13 | The new republic of Hungary has become the first eastern European government to commit to open systems and will use X/Open 's XPG brand in procurement . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , under-pressure manager Malcolm Crosby has warned the First Division not to write his team out of the promotion picture . |
| 15 | He was counting his blessings having backed the first 3 horses that actually finished the race . |
| 16 | Pakistan had won the first ‘ Test ’ , at Karachi , by an innings and four runs . |
| 17 | Earlier , Malcolm Pyrah had won the first Olympic Talent Spotters Championship on It 's Me and , though he does not believe the small seven-year-old chestnut is potential Olympic material , he echoed the widespread praise for this new series of competitions . |
| 18 | Anterior and posterior images of 30 seconds durations were recorded at 15 minute intervals starting immediately after the subjects had ingested the first course of the meal . |
| 19 | It was February 3 : on Feb 4 , two years before , Richard Hadlee had become the first to reach this once-unthinkable total . |
| 20 | Dave Walsh and Roger Mear have made the first British ascent of mighty Nanga Parbat , 8,165 metres . |
| 21 | ARSENAL have made the first move towards landing Everton 's Martin Keown in a £2.5 million deal . |
| 22 | Students on the Media course at Stroud College have become the first in the country to get permission to broadcast to the public . |
| 23 | Researchers at Hitachi Europe Ltd 's Dublin Laboratory and the physics department at Trinity College have co-developed the first system to combine optoelectronic semiconductor arrays with complex neural networks . |
| 24 | Researchers at Hitachi Europe Ltd 's Dublin Laboratory and the physics department at Trinity College have co-developed the first system to combine optoelectronic semiconductor arrays with complex neural networks . |
| 25 | Pueblo Indians in New Mexico have become the first to invoke an amendment to the 1987 Clean Water Act which allows certain American Indian reservations to set their own water quality standards . |
| 26 | SENIOR office-bearers in one of the Scottish National Party 's Lanarkshire branches have made the first formal call for the party leader , Alex Salmond , to resign . |
| 27 | Wychavon Canoe Club have launched the first edition of their club newsletter . |
| 28 | In West Penwith the Climbers Club have published the first of two new guides to the area , both written by Des Hannigan . |
| 29 | The J. Paul Getty Museum has produced the first volume in a new series of fine quality facsimile editions of volumes from its manuscript collection . |
| 30 | In today 's issue of Nature , a team of scientists at the University of Bath and the Natural History Museum has taken the first step to explain why their shapes can be as diverse and striking as those of snowflakes . |