Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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1 | SIMON McKie , a director of Rathbone Brothers , the quoted banking and investment group , has been elected the first Deputy Chairman of the Faculty of Taxation of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales . |
2 | YOSHIKO TAKEDA , 25-year-old wife of a British businessman , has been appointed the first full-time Japanese tour guide at Dove Cottage , Grasmere , the Lake District home of William Wordsworth , writes Gerald Bartlett . |
3 | The distinction between the recreational and the educational establishments was apparent when the Revd Daniel Elsdale opened what has been called the first proper boys ' club in the poorer area of his Kennington parish in 1872 , and the following year a ‘ Youth 's Institute ’ in the more middle-class district . |
4 | The Macintosh user interface has been called the first ‘ intuitive ’ interface , suggesting that a user can learn how to use it by instinct alone without the need for instruction manuals or training . |
5 | Digital Equipment France SA and Paris 's showpiece impressionist museum , the converted railway station Musee d'Orsay , has been demonstrating the first piece of their collaboration on a worthy prototype application of multimedia technology , ‘ Learn to See . ’ |
6 | Perhaps we could have been celebrating the first golden anniversary of the 1,000 Reich boasted about by Hitler . |
7 | Settis has impeccably international credentials for such an international institution , having held , among other posts , professorships in classical art and archaeology at the University of Pisa and Scuola Normale Superiore , served on the faculty of the Ecole Normale Superiéure at Paris and in1991 having been appointed the first Warburg Professor at the University of Hamburg . |
8 | Earlier , on Oct. 5 , Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi had been appointed the first woman member of the Supreme Court . |
9 | He had been defeated the first time , but that foray into the arena had taught him a lot . |
10 | ’ Well John Major says I 'm a bit of a bastard , and I 've been spending the first part of this conference checking my birth certificate ’ . |
11 | Since October 1989 teachers have been delivering the first stages of a new national curriculum ; and in the early summer they will start testing ( sorry , assessing ) all seven-year-olds on the three core disciplines : mathematics , English and science . |
12 | Buyers from all over the country have been attending the first of the annual auctions of holly and mistletoe . |
13 | Joh Commonwealth leaders have been attending the first day of their summit in Cyprus and protests by Greek Cypriots . |
14 | The management of Absent Ltd have been studying the first three years ' results of this newly formed company and are a little concerned with the figures produced . |