Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [was/were] [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 | In 1921 , the Emergency Quota Act was the first to impose a numerical restriction on immigrants . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Lloyds Bank was the first to introduce an annual fee of £12 for its Access cardholders in February of this year . |
| 8 | The banking sector was the first to furnish the EC ‘ single licence ’ system . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The German Government Bond contract was the first example of really aggressive product innovation in Europe . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The Guyana Telecommunications Corporation was the first state company to be sold , 80 per cent of its shares being bought in January 1991 for US$16,500,000 by the Atlantic Telephone Network , a company based in the US Virgin Islands . |
| 17 | The Beatles track was the first to feature new drummer Simon Smith . |
| 18 | The Lithuanian president , Vytautas Landsbergis , told the crowd that the dead man , Stanislovas Jamaitis was the first victim in the Republic 's struggle for independence . |
| 19 | The Blackpool meeting was the first between Mr Savimbi and a British minister , underlining the importance Britain attaches to persuading Mr Savimbi to return to the conference table . |
| 20 | For example , The Body Shop was the first company in Britain to use jojoba oil , which is obtained from a desert plant , in cosmetics . |
| 21 | Whereas , however , the Krakatoa eruption was the first for two centuries , Mt Pelee had previously erupted within the living memory of some of the older residents of St Pierre ; a mild affair in 1851 which did little apart from sprinkling a bit of ash about . |
| 22 | Perhaps the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia which ended the Thirty Years War was the first to acknowledge the emergence of an international order which legitimated State sovereignty . |
| 23 | Established in 1984 , Infolink 's Payment Profile Service was the first service of its kind and has played a particularly valuable role in support of responsible lending decisions in the consumer sector . |
| 24 | The Duart Point wreck was the first to be designated since Historic Scotland took over this function from the Department of Transport . |
| 25 | In 1945 he made his famous recording ‘ Up in Dodo 's Room ’ with McGhee 's group which , in the judgement of Fats Navarro was the first recorded tenor solo in the bebop idiom . |
| 26 | The Hanmer family were the first of the new immigrants to appear and they were still there 120 years later . |
| 27 | Learning to pronounce the address ‘ Quatorze rue du Perre , Place Pigalle ’ to a taxi driver was the first hurdle they had to overcome : |
| 28 | The Fourth Lateran Council was the first oecumenical council of the medieval period where the two orders , clerical and lay , were summoned , but they were there essentially to witness declarations of the faith , not to treat . |
| 29 | The delegation led by Vice Foreign Minister Chon In-chol was the first North Korean government delegation to visit Japan . |
| 30 | The three person team was the first to cover 30 miles of rough terrain over two days . |