Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [verb] the first " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Dave Walsh and Roger Mear have made the first British ascent of mighty Nanga Parbat , 8,165 metres . |
| 2 | ARSENAL have made the first move towards landing Everton 's Martin Keown in a £2.5 million deal . |
| 3 | Students on the Media course at Stroud College have become the first in the country to get permission to broadcast to the public . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Wychavon Canoe Club have launched the first edition of their club newsletter . |
| 9 | In West Penwith the Climbers Club have published the first of two new guides to the area , both written by Des Hannigan . |
| 10 | In effect , even those who move across the margins into CID work have produced the first structural crack in the preferred coherent model of uniformed and unitary policing . |
| 11 | Aston Villa , Everton , Sheffield Wednesday , Sheffield United , West Ham and Millwall have made the first moves to look at one of the largest untapped areas of players in world football . |
| 12 | In a flurry of seminars both in the US and in Europe members of the team have presented the first results from the experiment . |
| 13 | To tie in , the BFI have launched the first of four booklets to accompany the first four movies named in the series , THE WIZARD OF OZ , DOUBLE INDEMNITY , STAGECOACH and WENT THE DAY WELL . |
| 14 | FUND-RAISERS have held the first official meeting at their new Harewood House base . |
| 15 | The families of British soldiers killed by the American airforce in the Gulf War have won the first stage of their bid to find out what really happened . |
| 16 | On Friday , Sept 13 , Seb Grieve made the first ascent of the outstanding rib right of Dangerous Crocodile Snoggin at Ramshaw . |
| 17 | Two studies in Sweden have provided the first convincing evidence of a link between exposure to electromagnetic radiation from overhead power lines and the incidence of cancer , according to officials from the Swedish National Board for Industrial and Technical Development . |
| 18 | Shetland 's rabbits have become the first in history to evolve without tails , after a bounty of 25p was offered for every tail that hunters could produce . |
| 19 | Recent accessions have included the first American edition of Joseph Black 's Lectures on the elements of Chemistry , ( Philadelphia : 1807 ) ; a Paris edition of John Barclay 's Argenis printed in 1621 , and an item believed to have been printed in Edinburgh about 1800 entitled ‘ A Pleasant Humourous and satyrical poem ’ , part one of which calls on young women to ‘ embrace the pure and holy state of matrimony ’ : part two ‘ contains excellent directions in the choice of a husband … ’ |
| 20 | Over half a million people have watched the first two Tests and two things are immediately obvious . |
| 21 | Companies as diverse as IBM and Amstrad have reported the first full-year losses in their histories . |
| 22 | Southampton v Manchester C Howard Kendall watches from the stand as his new charges attempt to resist the First Division 's most prolific attack . |
| 23 | And house prices have shown the first rise since June . |
| 24 | As for training , as my hon. Friend the Member for Bosworth ( Mr. Tredinnick ) has just reminded us , the Government have introduced the first and only guarantee anywhere in Europe of a two-year training place for every 16 and 17-year-old who needs it . |
| 25 | Today I for the United States , and the General Secretary for the Soviet Union have signed the first agreement ever to eliminate an entire class of U S and Soviet nuclear weapons . |
| 26 | Researchers in Oxford have found the first evidence of a genetic cause for unexplained mental retardation in children . |
| 27 | Latest news from the expedition to climb Ultar , Pakistan 's highest unclimbed summit at nearly 7,300 metres , is that while no result has emerged from the tussle with the main objective , Mick Fowler and Craig Jones have made the first British ascents of Bublimiting ( 5,750 metres ) and Hunza Peak ( 6,250 metres ) . |
| 28 | Previous albums have included the first eight now on Mercury , the final couple on Silvertone . |
| 29 | Governors at Gillbrook School in South Bank hope to become the first grant maintained school in the North-East . |
| 30 | Now they 've got the centre the children seem to spend the first ten minutes with their parents and then they go off and play and their parents can have some time together . |