Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard Cocco Senior at the Palisade Music Company would like the bass playing world to know that he has developed the first 4-wrap low B bass string , as part of the R. Cocco 5-string bass set . |
| 2 | Iraq , which had been barred from exporting oil since its invasion of Kuwait in August 1990 , was permitted to attend the sixth ministerial meeting . |
| 3 | On behalf of CEPT , the Conference on European Posts and Telecommunications , the European Radiocommunications Office has completed the first Detailed Spectrum Investigation into the use of radio frequencies in the microwave or millimetric spectrum — between 3.4GHz and 105GHz . |
| 4 | Hobson Brown , in Russell Reynolds ' New York office , maintains that his firm , more effectively than the other headhunters , has attracted the first real career-search consultants , graduates from business schools who have deliberately chosen to make a career in executive search ; it was always the goal of Reynolds himself to build up a business as prestigious and high-powered as Morgan Guaranty , in which an ambitious graduate would seek to work right through to retirement . |
| 5 | A BOY who has won the first national Kids Who Care award is to use his prize money to buy a guide dog for his brother . |
| 6 | Ms Sandra Milton , aged 31 , has won the first Scheduled Services Award for selling more trips from the airport than any other travel agent during the last 12 month . |
| 7 | WASHINGTON , D.C. Richard P. Wunder , author of Hiram Powers , Vermont Sculptor , 1805-73 , reviewed in The Art Newspaper last month , has won the fourth annual Charles C. Eldredge Prize for this book . |
| 8 | ROOTPACK1 has selected the next approved version of APCK , [ 01.01 ] . |
| 9 | ROOTPACK1 has selected the next approved version of DPCK , [ 01.01 ] . |
| 10 | ROOTPACK1 has selected the next approved version of APCK , [ 01.01 ] . |
| 11 | ROOTPACK1 has selected the next approved version of DPCK , [ 01.01 ] . |
| 12 | Although Mao has been the subject of countless biographies , David Goodman has written the first fitting biography of Mr Deng . |
| 13 | In 1870 they helped organize the first All-Russian Industrial Exhibition and the first All-Russian Congress of Manufacturers and People Interested in Native Industry . |
| 14 | The survey has produced the first national estimate of below tolerable standard houses derived from consistently applied methods . |
| 15 | Yet if the IPPR has its way , the Labour Party will be adopting parent-friendly , talent-rewarding policies well before Lord James Douglas-Hamilton has got the first secondary school to say goodbye to our authoritarian system . |
| 16 | The principles and example of the Revolution helped to inspire the first successful slave revolt in the Caribbean in Haiti , as well as the political independence movements of South America . |
| 17 | Herman Ouseley has become the first black chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality . |
| 18 | Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG has become the first non-US company to adopt Hewlett-Packard Co 's SoftBench computer-aided software engineering environment . |
| 19 | Adele Graham from Pest Control South West has become the first female supervisor . |
| 20 | PIONEERING Dawn Walden pictured right , has become the first female fire fighter at Courtaulds Fibres ' Grimsby plant in the UK . |
| 21 | The Institute has become the first professional institution to be registered for its headquarters administrative operations under BS 5750 . |
| 22 | The new republic of Hungary has become the first eastern European government to commit to open systems and will use X/Open 's XPG brand in procurement . |
| 23 | Middlesbrough has become the first local authority in Cleveland to approve a proposed licensing scheme for doormen . |
| 24 | An Institute member has become the first chartered accountant to face trial on money laundering charges under the drug Trafficking Offence Act 1986 . |
| 25 | THE Isle of Man has become the first British authority to issue plastic identity card driving licences with tamper-proof colour photographs , using a £30,000 digital imaging system developed by Hitachi and NBS Card Systems of Weybridge , Surrey . |
| 26 | Reading Transport has become the first British bus company to run its buses on a fuel derived from oilseed rape . |
| 27 | A pilot from Wiltshire has become the first British serviceman to be decorated in Bosnia . |
| 28 | Moss Bros has become the first high street retailer to launch a privilege card that clocks up points towards discounts at the till , giving customers money off at the group 's stores and other outlets . |
| 29 | Lord Hesketh , who farms 5,000 acres at Towcester Northamptonshire , has become the first honorary vice-president of the British Simmental Cattle Society . |
| 30 | This page and View from City Road , page 31 Mitsubishi listing : Mitsubishi has became the first Japanese general trading company to be listed on the London Stock Exchange . |