Example sentences of "[adj] have [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brian Little has become the first man to win the Vauxhall Conference manager of the month award , worth £250 , for the second time in succession , for Darlington 's unbeaten run throughout October . |
| 2 | The academic year 1992/3 has seen the first year of fully modularised courses at Napier . |
| 3 | A more significant change has been the separation of sales of ITV1 and Channel 4 : Channel 4 has been responsible for its own sales from January 1993 , and this has introduced the first genuinely competitive element into national commercial TV . |
| 4 | The programme of re-organisation and expenditure reductions which followed the review of the Society 's activities during the Autumn of 1991 has yielded the first full year of financial benefits during 1992 and these are reflected in the increased surplus . |
| 5 | ‘ I can play better , but I was reasonably happy with my game and I 'm delighted to have got the first tie under my belt , ’ said McCann . |
| 6 | In 1184 , fourteen years before Innocent 's accession , Lucius III had issued the first curial pronouncement on heresy in the decree " Ad abolendam heresam " . |
| 7 | Must Software International has announced the first versions of its 4GL Nomad software for Unix starting with IBM Corp platforms . |
| 8 | A GIRL aged 11 has become the first child in Britain to be given a legal divorce from her mother . |
| 9 | United have become the first team in the League to break with tradition by getting rid of fixed term contracts for their coaching staff . |
| 10 | In the mayoral elections in Rio de Janeiro , César Maia of the PMDB defeated Benedia da Silva of the PT , who in 1987 had become the first black woman member of the Congress . |
| 11 | The long credit that the Dutch had given the first planters to get them started in Barbados in the 1640s came to an end with the Dutch war of the 1650s , which made it harder for English planters to finance development when they wanted to grow sugar in Jamaica . |
| 12 | Woodhouse was a fellow of Caius , and in 1803 had published the first book in England employing the continental notation , Principles of Analytical Calculation . |
| 13 | SynOptics Communications Inc has unveiled the first products based on its six-chip Asynchronous Transfer Moder chip set announced last October ( CI No 2,035 ) : the per-port price of the LattisCell switches ranges from under £1,500 to £2,000 , a half to a third of its competitors ' prices , says the company ; the Santa Clara company also has a technology partnership agreement with Sun Microsystems Inc to develop a 155Mbps asynchronous transfer mode SBus adaptor board that will be made and sold by SynOptics , enabling the LattisCell switches to be directly connected to Sparc systems running the Solaris Unix . |
| 14 | NEC Electronics Inc has become the first company to announce samples — for next month — of 64M-bit memory chips with 3.3V parts in 0.35 micron CMOS . |
| 15 | Pacific Telesis Group Inc 's San Francisco-based Pacific Bell Inc has announced the first customers for its new Advanced Broadcast Video Service . |
| 16 | Shinto 's resignation from NTT in December 1988 had marked the first major development in the Recruit affair , a scandal which had involved the purchase of influence by Recruit chairman Hiromasa Ezoe , in return for the provision of cheap pre-flotation shares in a Recruit subsidiary to leading figures within of the country 's political , administrative and economic spheres . |