Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [verb] 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 | The data seems to support the first belief : of those who had had some experience of unemployment in the previous five years , 0.480 said they would be prepared to break the law , whereas only 0.300 of those who had no such experience were ( a difference of +0.180 ) . |
| 16 | Oracle Corp plans to release the first benchmarks run on its parallel server technology within the next few weeks . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Children born in the United Kingdom to students , visitors or illegal immigrants no longer automatically acquire British citizenship at birth , but they will still be able to register as British citizens if either parent later becomes a citizen or settles in the United Kingdom , or if the child has spent the first ten years of its life in the country . |
| 20 | The Institute has become the first professional institution to be registered for its headquarters administrative operations under BS 5750 . |
| 21 | Edinburgh District Council has become the first UK city authority to promote a car-pooling scheme , following the launch of a commercial venture earlier this year [ see ED 55 ] . |
| 22 | The Vale of White Horse district council has become the first to set its Poll Tax at £412 . |
| 23 | LOTHIAN REGIONAL Council has taken the first step towards a total ban on smoking from 1 January next year . |
| 24 | A county council has taken the first step towards a total ban on all fox hunting on council land . |
| 25 | The self-evident gap between fantasy and reality — which is that no government , anywhere , of any political complexion has got the first clue about how to organise society in the post-Cold War world — has led to an aimless disgruntlement , a poisonous mixture of envy and ennui . |
| 26 | In addition to the third instalment on the Cuyp , the national gallery has made the first instalment on a Cranage painting . |
| 27 | Sewell seeks to become the first coach to successfully guide a team to victory in both men 's and women 's cup finals . |
| 28 | In feed-back inhibition , the final product P acts to inhibit the first enzyme in the series : that is , the enzyme that catalyses the step S→A . |
| 29 | A THEME park on the former Windsor Safari Park site has cleared the first planning hurdle . |
| 30 | A pilot from Wiltshire has become the first British serviceman to be decorated in Bosnia . |