Example sentences of "[noun] [is] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | a subject committee is in place to assist the development of the initiative and the intention is to have the first cohort of students enter the programme in Autumn 1993 . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , and until 14 December , Gilles Peyroulet is hosting the first solo exhibition in France of the American Ronald Jones , a neo-conceptual sculptor who manifests a special dislike of politically-committed art . |
| 3 | In collaboration with the other UK Research Councils and with international bodies and the European Community , the Economic and Social Research Council is undertaking the first phase of its Global Environmental Change Initiative . |
| 4 | Surrey County Council is to become the first local authority to sign the Peatland Protection Charter , and to commit itself to the phasing out of the use of peat in the council 's public parks , gardens and other landscaping activities . |
| 5 | Its aim is to provide the first comprehensive study of childhood injuries in the district and form the basis of an accident prevention drive . |
| 6 | We may assume , however , that he will have a better understanding of the purpose of the author in constructing the text in the way it is constructed if he knows that it is written in the late nineteenth century ( which will account for some differences in code , in Hymes ' terms ) in Victorian England ( which will account for the reference to a Reformatory ) and that the author is constructing the first English detective story , narrating the events from the point of view of four different participants , whose characters are in part revealed by the narrative style which the author assigns to them . |
| 7 | Your opponent is allowed the first turn , and will almost always begin by picking up two different cards , say an ace and a six . |
| 8 | At Hansaring 77 , Désiré Feuerle is featuring the first one-woman show in Germany of Italian artist Ilaria Bona . |
| 9 | BORIS Yeltsin is to make the first official visit to Britain by a Russian president in November . |
| 10 | A sensible compromise is to use the first method for longer photo-stories and to add a sticky label to the photograph giving outline details and the source and to use the second method for short captions . |
| 11 | The quantities U , q and w are related by the equation This mathematical relationship is called the first law of thermodynamics . |
| 12 | Coulter 's opened the first Ford fast-fit and next week Pentlands will open the first Vauxhall Masterfit depot opposite their dealership on Belfast 's Ravenhill Road . |
| 13 | The Open Software Foundation is to reveal the first snapshot of its Distributed Management Environment architecture after its members meeting in Munich on the 13th . |
| 14 | His advice is to study the first four pages of the explanatory booklet carefully , particularly paragraph six — action to take now . |
| 15 | Mute 's stance follows the news that music industry magazine Music Week is taking the first step to redefining the term ‘ independent ’ by running ‘ a genre chart open to all-comers ’ , next to ‘ an old-style distribution chart ’ , from September 19 . |
| 16 | The parent who shows strong disapproval , smacking the child or forcibly removing its hand from the offending area is sowing the first seeds of inhibition or sexual disorder . |
| 17 | Bavaria is facing the first major sell-off of an historic private collection since the war , and they have consulted Britain on how to respond , as England is all too used to such dispersals ( Yet another took place last month with the sale of Pitchford Hall ) . |
| 18 | The Library is exhibiting the first of series of paintings produced by members of Eve Bennett 's RBGE Botanical Painting Course . |
| 19 | Milk , after the baby is born the first time the baby actually has to digest its own food it has to process the food that it takes in , what 's in milk ? |
| 20 | THE British Government is taking the first tentative steps to standardise the computers and computer equipment that are bought by civil servants . |
| 21 | After just 4 games Swindon 's John Gorman is facing the first pain barrier of the season ; 4 defeats and 14 goals conceded . |
| 22 | If blood pressure is elevated the first question must be ‘ Am I using the correct size cuff ? ’ |
| 23 | International Data Group 's WorldExpo Corp is to sponsor the first SunWorld Expo in Japan this week at the huge Makuhari Convention Center outside Tokyo . |
| 24 | The Auditing Practices Board is facing the first test of its credibility . |
| 25 | It was not always thus : in 1983 , when Christie 's sold the first batch of 25,000 pieces of Ming porcelain , found ( also by Hatcher ) in a junk on a reef on the South China Sea , prices were low , because neither auction house nor collectors could see beyond the porcelain 's dull glaze to its historic possibilities . |
| 26 | That 's my normal naming convention , my normal naming convention is use the first two letters W L. W I 've explained , and L stands for linking . |
| 27 | A mnemonic for this phenomenon is to set the first and second fingers and thumb of the left hand at right angles to one another . |
| 28 | Du Pont is to build the first hydrofluorocarbon ( HFC ) -125 plant on a commercial scale at Deepwater , NJ . |
| 29 | Now they have brought forward a plan which is that they should lend me sufficient money to rent another house in which Mr Landor is to have the first floor , comprising three rooms , a book closet , and a terrace , and I am to reside on the ground floor and care for him receiving £30 a year for my trouble . |
| 30 | A simple proof is to cross the first fingers of your two hands , one at 30 inch range , the other at 15 inches . |