Example sentences of "[noun] be [to-vb] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Moxon 's first revised plan was to continue the first innings on 317 for seven but he then decided to declare in an attempt to bowl out Somerset twice . |
| 4 | Osbern 's next service to the revival of the old observances after his return from Bec was to write the first coherent Life of Dunstan . |
| 5 | In August it was announced that all first-year Beijing University students would undergo a year of military and political training , while two other top universities were to devote the first five weeks of the new term to the study of documents issued by the central authorities on the " truth " about the " counter-revolutionary rebellion " . |
| 6 | Its aim is to provide the first comprehensive study of childhood injuries in the district and form the basis of an accident prevention drive . |
| 7 | Harriet 's first big move was to become the first girl to win the British Junior Championships . |
| 8 | BORIS Yeltsin is to make the first official visit to Britain by a Russian president in November . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | His advice is to study the first four pages of the explanatory booklet carefully , particularly paragraph six — action to take now . |
| 12 | In 1656 John Washington left Sulgrave and sailed for America where his descendant was to become the first President . |
| 13 | She had brought a case for legal compensation for her dead children 's lives and for her own suffering and one of her few recorded public utterances was to call the first offer of compensation " pitiful " . |
| 14 | Bruin was to become the first Rottweiler to gain the title ‘ Champion ’ in the Working Trials arena . |
| 15 | And Henshaw was to become the first money man of the underground . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Du Pont is to build the first hydrofluorocarbon ( HFC ) -125 plant on a commercial scale at Deepwater , NJ . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | A simple proof is to cross the first fingers of your two hands , one at 30 inch range , the other at 15 inches . |
| 21 | The decision was to pursue the first option with some changes to current legislation : stronger investigative powers for the Director General of Fair Trading ; permitting the Director General to accept enforceable undertakings from companies before an investigation under the Competition Act , or in lieu of a monopoly reference under the Fair Trading Act ; and scope for interim orders under the Competition Act to prohibit specific activities by a firm where there is a risk of serious damage to a competitor , supplier , or customer during the period of the MMC's investigation . |
| 22 | One of the earliest projects was to create the first out-patient clinic at St Stephen 's Hospital in London . |
| 23 | ASDA 's superstore in Rawtenstall , Lancashire is to become the first of the supermarket chain 's English stores to get Cashline , and , following lengthy negotiations , a terminal is to be installed in the Royal Victoria Shopping Centre in Tunbridge Wells . |
| 24 | His next target is to become the first player to reach 2,000 points for the Welsh All Blacks . |
| 25 | To return to the problem of how to continue the theme after the first phrase is formed : the simplest solution is to repeat the first phrase exactly as it is . |