Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Channel Tunnel construction is moving rapidly from the plan to the site and the new terminal represents the first definite move to link the region with the continent . |
| 2 | Our study provides the first histological data on bone turnover in women receiving long term tamoxifen treatment . |
| 3 | A less glamorous version of its origin sees the first Manx cat as nothing more than a Manx sailor 's pet — a curiosity brought home after travels to the Orient . |
| 4 | Simons claims that this work provides the first reliable description of how an animal virus enters the cell and initiates infection . |
| 5 | Paul Merton has the first post-modern catchphrase . |
| 6 | Planning and control in ‘ real money ’ — cash limits The first significant change from PESC volume control which was broadly recognized as having failed , came with the widespread introduction of cash limits . |
| 7 | The foundation of the ECSC marks the first significant step towards European union that went beyond being merely consultative and intergovernmental in character . |
| 8 | The Deutsche Bundespost Telekom will supply 10 towns with a Switched Multi-megabit Data Service by the end of the year , Computerwoche reports : users in Munich and Stuttgart will have immediate access to the new Hannover , Berlin , Dusseldorf , Frankfurt and Nuremburg will follow ; as such the project represents the first large-scale commercial implementation of the IEEE 802.6 standard in Europe ; but Telekom has gone further than most by letting its users use the protocol 's speech and video capabilities , and the state firm is touting the network 's 53-byte cell structure as an easy way for customers to migrate to Asynchronous Transfer Mode capability in the future . |
| 9 | The new line includes the first air-cooled machines in the C90 series , a two-processor C92A and a four-processor C94A , which it says were developed in response to demand from Japanese commercial users . |
| 10 | The new line includes the first air-cooled machines in the C90 series , a two-processor C92A and a four-processor C94A , which it says were developed in response to demand from Japanese commercial users . |
| 11 | This report provides the first direct evidence for expression of P3A + variant mRNA in human thymus . |
| 12 | Next year sees the first English Bar President of the Council of the Bars of Europe ( CCBE ) , . |
| 13 | But as soon as a company takes the first tentative steps from data to information , its decision processes , management structure , and even the way its work gets done begin to be transformed . |
| 14 | My theory of tragic myth provides the first acceptable explanation of the chorus of Greek tragedy . |
| 15 | Undertaken by the Scottish Homes agency on behalf of the Scottish Office , the survey provides the first comprehensive analysis of the condition of both public and private sector housing in Scotland . |
| 16 | A new study by Peter Bryant and Lynette Bradley at Oxford University provides the first good evidence that the ability to analyse a word into its constituent sounds is most important in the early stages of learning to read ( Nature , vol 301. p 419 ) . |
| 17 | It may seem appropriate that since VR marks the first true merging of technology and imagination , it is sometimes hard to tell where current technology ends and its imagined future begins . |