Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] be the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost difficult to believe , but Beighton station level crossing was the first on the GCR out of London . |
| 2 | The research programme is the first study of support networks of the elderly looking at developments over time . |
| 3 | The five-year Study and Action Programme is the first of its kind to be launched by WACC . |
| 4 | In 1921 , the Emergency Quota Act was the first to impose a numerical restriction on immigrants . |
| 5 | The opening of the stock exchange was the first step in the privatization programme announced by Prime Minister Jozsef Antall on May 22 ; shortly afterwards , on June 29 , the government detailed further plans to take effect in August , starting with bankruptcy proceedings against about 30 large state entities , the decentralization and splitting up of another 600 companies and the privatization of some 40,000 small service concerns , subsequently adding plans to create private farm holdings . |
| 6 | He worked with them for ten years , initially on the Sydney harbour and Newcastle upon Tyne bridges , and then from 1931 on the design and construction of welded steel bridges , of which his Billingham bridge was the first all-welded bridge in Britain . |
| 7 | This issue of Action newsletter is the first to be typeset , designed and laid out on desktop publishing ( DTP ) equipment which has recently been installed at WACC 's offices in London . |
| 8 | The banking sector was the first to furnish the EC ‘ single licence ’ system . |
| 9 | Digital Equipment Corp is the first US computer major to open a wholly owned subsidiary in Romania , its seventh in the old Eastern Bloc . |
| 10 | Thereafter , because he patently thought my laughter geometry chart was the first sign of incipient lunacy , I would play the lines , then turn upstage and make a huge gesture demonstrating the sausage shape of the laugh , which never failed to roll him up . |
| 11 | The HND in Hotel Catering and Institutional Management course was the first of its kind in Scotland when it started life as the HND in Catering and Hotelkeeping . |
| 12 | The Lautner portrait is the first in a series . |
| 13 | Ventura says its AdPro package is the first in a new category of software , called ( take a deep breath for this one ) Advertising , Layout and Designers ' Productivity Tools . |
| 14 | i pulled this of rec.sport.soccer ( see last part of mail ) — the post was rather mingled so i have tried to fix it up a little : take it for what it is — a post from memory from a guy somewhere and no mentioning of what year/what cup/ etc. i think the poster has messed up or something — my guess is that the home match is the first mentioned : meaning that G has beaten some respectable teams like PSV , Roma and Frankfurt at home and beating Roma and Frankfurt at aggregate . |
| 15 | The Mancunian dance team are the first band to host an all-nighter at the venue and intend to perform two sets , one at 10pm and the other in the early hours . |
| 16 | Now the management agreed to that policy er and subsequently erm the , the main machine shop was the first er er department to go on to it . |
| 17 | Instead , at present , as soon as queues develop , the telephone service is the first to be suspended and callers are required to speak to an answering machine , as will be seen in Chapter 4 . |
| 18 | The Sun agreements were the first part of a strategy devised by Adobe 's four month-old Display Products Group to take the Unix field by storm — and there remains the Interactive Systems Unix side of Sun 's business to be mopped up , Ybarra reminds us . |
| 19 | Expert systems are the first commercial products to come from the world of Artificial Intelligence research . |
| 20 | For example , The Body Shop was the first company in Britain to use jojoba oil , which is obtained from a desert plant , in cosmetics . |
| 21 | Neural tube defects are the first common and lethal congenital abnormality for which a primary preventive action has been proposed and supported by the results of two large-scale randomised trials ( Medical Research Council Vitamin Study and Hungarian Family Planning Programme ) . |
| 22 | Established in 1984 , Infolink 's Payment Profile Service was the first service of its kind and has played a particularly valuable role in support of responsible lending decisions in the consumer sector . |
| 23 | The Duart Point wreck was the first to be designated since Historic Scotland took over this function from the Department of Transport . |
| 24 | Collection of ground control point coordinates is the first stage in the geometric correction of an image ( see text for discussion ) . |
| 25 | Cleaning materials were the first priority , and enough china , cutlery and glassware for her own use . |
| 26 | A statement which puts a byte to the data file whose file handle is the first argument . |
| 27 | The F-Plan calorie and fibre charts are the first charts to make it possible to keep to the correct number of calories and , at the same time , to choose the foods which will be of most help in making slimming both easier and speedier . |
| 28 | Since the Newbolt Report is the first , and indeed has remained the single most comprehensive official report on English , there has been a tendency to use it as the key to the most fundamental ideological impulses of the discipline . |
| 29 | The London Evening Standard is the first tabloid off the mark with : ‘ Knives out for Kinnock ’ . |
| 30 | The fill character is the first entry in the editing pattern . |