Example sentences of "[noun] be [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Timed to coincide with the major retrospective of Georgia O'Keeffe at the Hayward Gallery , Alex Reid and Lefevre are holding the first commercial exhibition of the artist 's work to be held in Europe ( 8 April to 7 May ) . |
| 2 | Data General Corp , the British Computer Society , the Scottish Office Industry Department and the Department of Trade and Industry are co-sponsoring the first Scottish Open Systems conference , which takes place at the Ibrox Stadium — home to Glasgow Rangers football club — on May 14th . |
| 3 | Wreaking havoc : could Camberley be suffering the first invasion of delinquent teenage toads ? |
| 4 | As journalists were given the first glimpse inside the mall on Wednesday , managers from developer Burton Property Trust geared up for a major marketing exercise . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This was the time when the old style of gabled manor was feeling the first breath of classical ideas . |
| 7 | Two years later St Sava was created the first Bishop of the autocephalous Serbian Church by the Patriarch of Byzantium . |
| 8 | Reuben Boll was unwrapping the first of the boiled sweets he bought each morning in Tadley . |
| 9 | Peasants who have returned to their lands in the heart of El Salvador 's war zone are celebrating the first anniversary of a daring experiment . |
| 10 | Anyway , my worst fears about Barny were confirmed the first time I tried to put a leash on him . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Giles was appointed the first Professor of Surgery at Leeds University in 1973 , and continued to occupy the Chair until his death . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 " . |
| 18 | Its aim is to provide the first comprehensive study of childhood injuries in the district and form the basis of an accident prevention drive . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Your opponent is allowed the first turn , and will almost always begin by picking up two different cards , say an ace and a six . |
| 21 | At Hansaring 77 , Désiré Feuerle is featuring the first one-woman show in Germany of Italian artist Ilaria Bona . |
| 22 | Harriet 's first big move was to become the first girl to win the British Junior Championships . |
| 23 | Zambia 's balance of payments situation steadily worsened after 1975 , and by 1978 the IMF was arranging the first of a series of standby facilities , and one extended fund facility ( 1981–83 ) . |
| 24 | Two officers are examining the first floor right now ; there is some ivy . ’ |
| 25 | BORIS Yeltsin is to make the first official visit to Britain by a Russian president in November . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The quantities U , q and w are related by the equation This mathematical relationship is called the first law of thermodynamics . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | N.P.W. Hancock was leading the first seven Hurricanes , this flight meeting Sunderland L5807 of 228 Squadron as planned , and reaching the island without any problems . |