Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [to-vb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Members of the Department of Social Anthropology and the Audio-Visual Aids Unit Cambridge are collaborating to make the first experimental videodisc at Cambridge University . |
| 2 | I SUPPOSE a lot of people are waiting to greet the first cuckoo of spring , but I was looking forward to the first hedgehog of spring . |
| 3 | Significantly , while Philips have been hurrying to launch the first full size CD-I players , Sony — notionally , Philips ' CD-I partners — have made no announcements about CD-I plans other than to show the palmtop device and to speak obliquely about other announcements to follow . |
| 4 | Cool Ground , set to carry top-weight of 12st , would be attempting to become the first since Burrough Hill Lad in 1984 to win the Cheltenham Gold Cup and Hennessy in the same year . |
| 5 | Former Olympic 10,000 metres silver medallist Mike McLeod will be aiming to become the first veteran to win tonight 's Golden Wonder Blaydon Race . |
| 6 | You will already be feeling fitter , healthier , and be starting to shed the first few pounds of excess weight . |
| 7 | Late roses tumbled over stone walls , Michaelmas daisies and chrysanthemums provided bright patches of colour , and the trees that surrounded the village were beginning to show the first hint of the glowing autumn colours still to come . |
| 8 | Originally we were planning to reward the first ten correct answers drawn out of the bag with a wonderful Sigma-Ray joystick , but unfortunately Markie ( feeble minded fool that he is ) mistook them for his laundry and took them home to be washed by his Mum . |
| 9 | Miss Boothroyd is seeking to become the first woman speaker . |
| 10 | The bank is planning a European and American roadshow on April 28 and is negotiating to become the first Portuguese company with a full overseas listing on one of the American stock exchanges . |
| 11 | Joanne Conway , who is hoping to become the first woman for more than 20 years to win five successive titles , made a strong start at the Skate Electic British championships in Basingstoke . |
| 12 | A SINGING Sikh is hoping to become the first Asian to be listed in the Guinness Book of Records — as a chartbuster . |
| 13 | Courtaulds Aerospace at Littleborough in the UK is hoping to become the first business in its industry to gain an award under the new Investors in People scheme which recognises training to national standards . |
| 14 | Glasgow is planning to become the first Scottish city to ban the consumption of alcohol in the street . |
| 15 | In a package to be put before the clubs , the League 's governing body are proposing to increase the First Division from 14 to 16 teams . |
| 16 | She was damned if she was going to make the first move . |
| 17 | She was damned if she was going to make the first conciliatory move ; it would blunt the point of all she had done in Waterford . |
| 18 | By Spain , Jackie was beginning to feel the first twinges of the ulcer which was to hamper him for some time and keep him out of racing properly — and out of Belgium altogether — until July . |
| 19 | With a six-inch reach advantage and making better use this time of his wicked left jab , Eubank was hoping to become the first to stop Gimenez in 45 fights . |
| 20 | His father , who works in Oman , was planning to catch the first flight home . |