Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dun & Bradstreet Software Corp has launched the first of its Unix applications from the former Management Science America base in Atlanta . |
| 2 | A 70-year old woodland has become the first plantation forest to be declared a Site of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSI ) by English Nature . |
| 3 | A BABY ostrich called Linford after the Olympic flyer has become the first of his kind to be born in Britain outside a zoo . |
| 4 | EDINBURGH District Council 's Construction Skills Training programme has won the first UK award for the use of new technology in training . |
| 5 | An Oxford priest has become the first in the country to announce he 'll leave the Church of England following the vote to ordain women priests . |
| 6 | A village which has been hit by a big increase in crime has become the first in Britain to install video cameras on its roads . |
| 7 | In some companies reading e-mail has become the first task of the morning . |
| 8 | Oracle Corp plans to release the first benchmarks run on its parallel server technology within the next few weeks . |
| 9 | The J. Paul Getty Museum has produced the first volume in a new series of fine quality facsimile editions of volumes from its manuscript collection . |
| 10 | In today 's issue of Nature , a team of scientists at the University of Bath and the Natural History Museum has taken the first step to explain why their shapes can be as diverse and striking as those of snowflakes . |
| 11 | Children born in the United Kingdom to students , visitors or illegal immigrants no longer automatically acquire British citizenship at birth , but they will still be able to register as British citizens if either parent later becomes a citizen or settles in the United Kingdom , or if the child has spent the first ten years of its life in the country . |
| 12 | The Institute has become the first professional institution to be registered for its headquarters administrative operations under BS 5750 . |
| 13 | Edinburgh District Council has become the first UK city authority to promote a car-pooling scheme , following the launch of a commercial venture earlier this year [ see ED 55 ] . |
| 14 | The Vale of White Horse district council has become the first to set its Poll Tax at £412 . |
| 15 | LOTHIAN REGIONAL Council has taken the first step towards a total ban on smoking from 1 January next year . |
| 16 | A county council has taken the first step towards a total ban on all fox hunting on council land . |
| 17 | The self-evident gap between fantasy and reality — which is that no government , anywhere , of any political complexion has got the first clue about how to organise society in the post-Cold War world — has led to an aimless disgruntlement , a poisonous mixture of envy and ennui . |
| 18 | In addition to the third instalment on the Cuyp , the national gallery has made the first instalment on a Cranage painting . |
| 19 | A THEME park on the former Windsor Safari Park site has cleared the first planning hurdle . |
| 20 | Reading Transport has become the first British bus company to run its buses on a fuel derived from oilseed rape . |
| 21 | A pleasure steamer has made the first day trip down the Severn to the Devon coast for almost a century . |
| 22 | Western drug enforcement agents are trying to persuade the Bhutto government to enter , but such a move threatens to spill the first blood of Benazir 's fledgling democracy . |
| 23 | Barenboim has identified the First Symphony of the 54-year-old Corigliano as a work of great courage , and it was equally brave of him to take it on tour . |
| 24 | The Insured Person has to bear the first £25 of each and every claim , except in respect of claims for deposits only where the Insured Person has to bear the first £10 of each and every claim . |
| 25 | The Insured Person has to bear the first £25 of each and every claim , except in respect of claims for deposits only where the Insured Person has to bear the first £10 of each and every claim . |
| 26 | The Insured Person has to bear the first £25 of each and every claim . |
| 27 | The Insured Person has to bear the first £25 of each and every claim . |
| 28 | The Insured Person has to bear the first £25 of each and every claim . |
| 29 | ‘ unless … ( a ) the court has deprived the first defendant ( as mortgagee ) of any relevant costs ; or ( b ) the court has ordered taxation of any relevant costs on some other basis save where there is no inconsistency between such an order and the preservation of the first defendant 's contractual right to payment of such costs ( for example , where such an order has been , or is hereafter , made against the mortgagors or any of them and other persons joined as co-plaintiffs or co-defendants with the mortgagors or any of them ) . |
| 30 | In their notice of appeal the plaintiffs ask for that order to be set aside and , in its place , for an order declaring that they are entitled to object to items in the accounts , whether litigation costs or non-litigation costs , on the ground that the items are unreasonable in amount , and for an order declaring that the first defendant is not entitled to have its litigation costs taxed on an indemnity basis if and to the extent that the court has deprived the first defendant , as mortgagee , of any costs nor in respect of litigation costs already the subject of an order for taxation on some other basis . |