Example sentences of "[verb] to be the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Dutch are widely expected to be the first to try it . |
| 2 | A light air genoa is expected to be the first to be tested over the next few days . |
| 3 | It runs both Solaris 1.1 and 2.1 and is expected to be the first of a family of products . |
| 4 | It runs both Solaris 1.1 and 2.1 and is expected to be the first of a family of products . |
| 5 | Carriers are expected to be the first users of the interface since it will significantly reduce the cost of building a new Frame Relay network or of extending an existing Frame Relay network . |
| 6 | And , rather than allow Eldorado to be a drain on the Corporation for years to come , the show is expected to be the first on his hit list . |
| 7 | This is expected to be the first of many similar cases to come to light as local councils draw up registers of contaminated land under the Environmental Protection Act . |
| 8 | Those treats were always a scrimmage — ten or twelve boys all endeavouring to be the first to catch Mrs. Robbins ' eye . |
| 9 | Comet IRAS-Araki-Alcock is widely claimed to be the first comet discovered by an orbiting observatory — the Infrared Astronomical Satellite , IRAS . |
| 10 | Companion is claimed to be the first complete system to conform fully to the CT2 Common Air Interface CAI standard . |
| 11 | New York-based Linkon Corp will be developing an SBus multimedia communications board called Link Engine FS3000 for SunSoft Inc 's Solaris operating system to give desktops interactive voice response with speech recognition and facsimile capabilities : claimed to be the first SBus offering supporting distributed speech processing applications , it will be generally available by June following a May beta test ; there will be one-to-four port configurations for the desktop and T-1 configuration for large client-server installations ; Europe will be supported by E-1 . |
| 12 | Lotus Development Corp and the Skytel unit of Mobile Telecommunications Technologies Inc plan joint development of technologies and applications to meet the demands of a growing wireless messaging market : first product from the agreement is a wireless messaging gateway for Lotus Notes , which is claimed to be the first US national wireless gateway for workgroup software — combining Notes and a SkyWord alphanumeric receiver , the gateway will create a Notes ‘ thinking mailbox ’ that can forward changes in information from a Notes server to SkyWord receivers , the firms say . |
| 13 | The HD-DOMS-to-Objectstore interface is claimed to be the first Common Object Request Broker Architecture-compliant interface available commercially and provides a shared repository for object types , object methods , and the instances of those objects . |
| 14 | Los Altos , California-based Full Source Software Inc has begun shipping UniShred , a $150 suite of media erasure applications that irrevocably delete files and securely obliterate data in files , making any kind of retrieval impossible : it 's claimed to be the first Unix package to conform to the strictest government and commercial standards , directly replacing Unix 's rm utility . |
| 15 | They are claimed to be the first ever to enable system administrators to monitor and manage all their computing resources — computers , networks , and relational database applications — from one central management console . |
| 16 | The Siege is commonly claimed to be the first English opera , though with what justice it is difficult to say since we have only the libretto and stage-designs . |
| 17 | It has to be the first urine passed in the morning in a clean , empty container . |
| 18 | We are discussing strategic new developments-someone has to be the first to develop the product or technology . |
| 19 | But the real fact is if this council regards elderly persons homes as the priority it pretends then it has to be the first priority for that money . |
| 20 | It , it has to be the first weekend does it ? |
| 21 | There always , with a new product , has to be the first experiment on a human , otherwise a new drug would n't come on the market . |
| 22 | And I 'd like to fight him because he 's undefeated and I want to be the first man to beat him . |
| 23 | ‘ And I want him to win because he 's unbeaten and I want to be the first man to take the H out of Holyfield . ’ |
| 24 | But I want to be the first man to achieve Football League status after a full playing career . |
| 25 | He 'd just become the first Briton to win two world titles on foreign soil and added : ‘ I want to be the first British fighter to win three world titles at different weights . ’ |
| 26 | His Crystallising Public Opinion ( 1923 ) is considered to be the first book dealing exclusively with public relations . |
| 27 | The mini is a long way from what 's considered to be the first jukebox ; the Edison Phonograph . |
| 28 | In what was reported to be the first visit by an Irish Prime Minister to Northern Ireland for 25 years , Charles Haughey , the Taoiseach , visited Belfast on April 11 . |
| 29 | The UK visit was reported to be the first official visit by a Vietnamese Foreign Minister since the end of the Vietnam War , and the talks were reported to have been held in an atmosphere of frankness and goodwill , with both sides keen to improve economic and diplomatic links and to co-operate fully on the issue of the repatriation of " boat people " from Hong Kong . |
| 30 | We called Aries Research Inc , makers of what looks to be the first HyperSparc-based systems ( UX No 426 ) Marixx.ds and Marixx.dt , Aries Technology . |