Example sentences of "[verb] be the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Lemonheads have been touring for about three months , first in America and now in Europe , and this has been the first real glitch they 've encountered . |
| 2 | The report , which the Children 's Society says is the first detailed study of runaway youngsters , calls for a national centralised system for collecting statistics on missing juveniles . |
| 3 | Xerox Corp 's Xerox Engineering Systems in Rochester , New York has come out with the Xerox 8812 plotter , which Adobe Systems Inc says is the first computer-aided design desktop output device equipped with PostScript : the 400dpi 8812 can be used as a laser plotter for engineering and architectural renderings , and as a PostScript Level 2 desktop printer for documents that combine CAD drawings , text and graphics ; it is bundled with 51 resident Type 1 fonts , Adobe Type Manager font scaling software , and print drivers that support both Macintosh and Windows systems ; it costs $7,000 with the PostScript software and with one paper tray . |
| 4 | Alesi 's had been the first leading car to stop during the race and the merit in changing tyres became clear when he immediately set the fastest lap of the race . |
| 5 | There was no world war by September , but what did occur was the first major decline in the domestic popularity of his foreign policy . |
| 6 | John Pilmay 's glasshouse at Silkstone may have been the first successful venture in the district . |
| 7 | Kepler , a spacecraft to orbit Mars and study the planet 's atmosphere , magnetic field and gravitational field , would have been the first European planetary mission . |
| 8 | I think he might have been the first black player in England but I know Celtic fielded jazz and rap pioneer Gil Scott Heron 's Dad in the 30s — a great success there apparently . |
| 9 | That the most northerly of the Anglian kings should have been the first non-Kentish ruler to adopt Christianity in the 620s is , at the very least , surprising . |
| 10 | But as Kenneth Connor told me , ‘ What she actually saw was the first full frontals ever on view during the making of a British film . |
| 11 | It is said to have been the first large bridge in the country made with a level roadway ( i.e. not rising towards the crown ) . |
| 12 | ‘ I am proud to have been the first British actor to play the American rock hero in his own homeland . |
| 13 | In Britain Lord Clarendon in the 1860s seems to have been the first foreign secretary to apply systematically the principle of seniority in the appointment of attachés ; and from that decade onwards heads of British missions abroad were expected to report each year on the conduct and abilites of those under their control . |
| 14 | She had been the first Western politician to reach the Kurds . |
| 15 | When Penguin New Writing began to incorporate photogravure illustrations in 1942 , Vaughan had been the first contemporary artist to have his work reproduced . |
| 16 | To those humans who , given mastery of space , preferred to vault across it than to linger in orbit and build there , Mars and its hurtling moons had been the first great benefit of the gift . |
| 17 | President Assad had been the first Arab leader to criticize the Iraqi invasion , but there was considerable apprehension in the West that Saddam Hussein 's emergence as a focus of anti-Western Arab radicalism might open the way to a rapprochement between Iraq and Syria . |
| 18 | It had been the first definite sign that something was wrong ; though she had been moody and withdrawn for some weeks before , he had thought this a normal reaction to her baby 's death . |
| 19 | A month before , Goma had been the first Romanian to try to imitate the initiative of the dissidents of Czechoslovakia . |
| 20 | This place had been the first German prison camp built specifically for British air-crew . |
| 21 | Chicago-born Mainbocher had been the first American to open a couture house in Paris — the trousseau and wedding dress of Wallis Simpson were celebrated triumphs — and , based in New York from the early war years , remained the chosen couturier of the stars of American society and stage . |
| 22 | It was ancient , a nest of shining metal that had been the first cis-lunar colony , the first man-made world that orbited around mankind 's ancestral home . |
| 23 | Do n't Sing was the first single to chart , though it was n't until When Love Breaks Down was released for the second time in 1985 that things really started to happen . |
| 24 | As the most advanced part of the French colonial empire Vietnam in 1945 might , perhaps , by a sort of inductive leap , have been the first French colony to become independent . |
| 25 | The toolset , which Cadre claims is the first integrated solution covering maintenance , test and reuse of existing software , includes six modules : system understanding , a reverse engineering tool for ‘ complete design recovery of C source programs ’ ; function understanding , producing control flow graphs and data and control complexity metrics ; the construction module , which automates the building of source code from Ensemble 's design environment ; test case generation , which automatically builds in test cases at function , unit or subsystem level ; test verification ; and a documentation module . |
| 26 | Data General also expanded the storage options available in its Clariion range with what it claims is the first high-performance fail-safe tape array for Unix . |
| 27 | IPL Systems Inc , Waltham , Massachusetts is taking on IBM Corp with what it claims is the first 9337-compatible disk array subsystem for AS/400 users . |
| 28 | Ungermann-Bass has also announced what it claims is the first multi-protocol communications product for remote personal computers and terminals to be fully integrated into the hub environment . |
| 29 | Where you study is the first important step towards survival and success as a student . |