Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] be [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In November 1991 the CME 's eurodollar futures contract was the first one to exceed the one million contracts open interest , i.e. number of contracts outstanding . |
| 2 | Almost difficult to believe , but Beighton station level crossing was the first on the GCR out of London . |
| 3 | Coldunell Ltd. v. Gallon was the first of the modern cases to analyse the previous authorities in terms of ‘ agency . ’ |
| 4 | The ecu link is a first step towards membership of the ERM . |
| 5 | The research programme is the first study of support networks of the elderly looking at developments over time . |
| 6 | The aircraft carrier is the first ship to be fitted with the gun , believed to be the most accurate , reliable and sophisticated close range anti-missile system in the world . |
| 7 | The five-year Study and Action Programme is the first of its kind to be launched by WACC . |
| 8 | In 1921 , the Emergency Quota Act was the first to impose a numerical restriction on immigrants . |
| 9 | The opening of the stock exchange was the first step in the privatization programme announced by Prime Minister Jozsef Antall on May 22 ; shortly afterwards , on June 29 , the government detailed further plans to take effect in August , starting with bankruptcy proceedings against about 30 large state entities , the decentralization and splitting up of another 600 companies and the privatization of some 40,000 small service concerns , subsequently adding plans to create private farm holdings . |
| 10 | This separation from the mainstream arts community is the first stage towards true integration . |
| 11 | He worked with them for ten years , initially on the Sydney harbour and Newcastle upon Tyne bridges , and then from 1931 on the design and construction of welded steel bridges , of which his Billingham bridge was the first all-welded bridge in Britain . |
| 12 | The disability arts movement is the first sign of a post-tragedy disability culture . |
| 13 | Lloyds Bank was the first to introduce an annual fee of £12 for its Access cardholders in February of this year . |
| 14 | Rob Strachan stresses that the water vole survey is the first of its kind . |
| 15 | This issue of Action newsletter is the first to be typeset , designed and laid out on desktop publishing ( DTP ) equipment which has recently been installed at WACC 's offices in London . |
| 16 | The banking sector was the first to furnish the EC ‘ single licence ’ system . |
| 17 | The Skills Audit was the first City Challenge project to get underway and the team carried out interviews in about 10,000 households in the area . |
| 18 | His sonorous voice and deliberate utterance may to a great extent account for this but it should also be remarked that as Highbury Quadrant was the first church to introduce the Electrophone , perfection has been probably acquired by long practice in the details requisite to success . ’ |
| 19 | Digital Equipment Corp is the first US computer major to open a wholly owned subsidiary in Romania , its seventh in the old Eastern Bloc . |
| 20 | Thereafter , because he patently thought my laughter geometry chart was the first sign of incipient lunacy , I would play the lines , then turn upstage and make a huge gesture demonstrating the sausage shape of the laugh , which never failed to roll him up . |
| 21 | The German Government Bond contract was the first example of really aggressive product innovation in Europe . |
| 22 | The HND in Hotel Catering and Institutional Management course was the first of its kind in Scotland when it started life as the HND in Catering and Hotelkeeping . |
| 23 | The Lautner portrait is the first in a series . |
| 24 | Ventura says its AdPro package is the first in a new category of software , called ( take a deep breath for this one ) Advertising , Layout and Designers ' Productivity Tools . |
| 25 | i pulled this of rec.sport.soccer ( see last part of mail ) — the post was rather mingled so i have tried to fix it up a little : take it for what it is — a post from memory from a guy somewhere and no mentioning of what year/what cup/ etc. i think the poster has messed up or something — my guess is that the home match is the first mentioned : meaning that G has beaten some respectable teams like PSV , Roma and Frankfurt at home and beating Roma and Frankfurt at aggregate . |
| 26 | TOP selling Warrington Group are the first winners of Liverpool Region 's Royal Scottish Quarterly Award . |
| 27 | The Mancunian dance team are the first band to host an all-nighter at the venue and intend to perform two sets , one at 10pm and the other in the early hours . |
| 28 | The February meeting was the first of its kind to be hosted by Saudi Arabia , which opposed a major role for the Shi'ite opposition in a future Iraqi government , but now considered that the ousting of Saddam Hussein had become a priority . |
| 29 | Now the management agreed to that policy er and subsequently erm the , the main machine shop was the first er er department to go on to it . |
| 30 | Instead , at present , as soon as queues develop , the telephone service is the first to be suspended and callers are required to speak to an answering machine , as will be seen in Chapter 4 . |