Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [vb pp] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | SAAB has produced the first pictures of its first new car for quite some time , the new-look 900 . |
| 2 | The Northern General Hospital National Health Service Trust in Sheffield has become the first hospital in the UK to install a Fibre Distributed Data Interface network : supplied by Cray Communications Ltd , the network is intended to run between eight hospital departments . |
| 3 | Middlesbrough has become the first local authority in Cleveland to approve a proposed licensing scheme for doormen . |
| 4 | CANCER drug campaigner Janet Murray has had the first tablets which may give her a chance of a normal life . |
| 5 | Paris-based Thomson-CSF SA 's Must Software International SA has announced the first versions of its Nomad applications generator for Unix , starting with IBM Corp systems . |
| 6 | The new republic of Hungary has become the first eastern European government to commit to open systems and will use X/Open 's XPG brand in procurement . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , under-pressure manager Malcolm Crosby has warned the First Division not to write his team out of the promotion picture . |
| 8 | Pakistan had won the first ‘ Test ’ , at Karachi , by an innings and four runs . |
| 9 | Earlier , Malcolm Pyrah had won the first Olympic Talent Spotters Championship on It 's Me and , though he does not believe the small seven-year-old chestnut is potential Olympic material , he echoed the widespread praise for this new series of competitions . |
| 10 | It was February 3 : on Feb 4 , two years before , Richard Hadlee had become the first to reach this once-unthinkable total . |
| 11 | Dave Walsh and Roger Mear have made the first British ascent of mighty Nanga Parbat , 8,165 metres . |
| 12 | ARSENAL have made the first move towards landing Everton 's Martin Keown in a £2.5 million deal . |
| 13 | Pueblo Indians in New Mexico have become the first to invoke an amendment to the 1987 Clean Water Act which allows certain American Indian reservations to set their own water quality standards . |
| 14 | By August 5 the cable had been laid , and Thomson had sent the first two messages over it . |
| 15 | By 9.30am yesterday morning , an hour after 90-year-old Gene Sarazen had bisected the first fairway with an open-ceremonial drive , a stain of sweat was already running down the spine of Gary Wolstenholme 's golf shirt as he tried to make head and tail of the practice putting green . |
| 16 | It was the first time since 1921 that England had lost the first three Tests of a home rubber . |
| 17 | As children , she and her sister Ruth had reckoned the first outing to pick primroses as the true herald of spring . |
| 18 | Aston Villa , Everton , Sheffield Wednesday , Sheffield United , West Ham and Millwall have made the first moves to look at one of the largest untapped areas of players in world football . |
| 19 | A pilot from Wiltshire has become the first British serviceman to be decorated in Bosnia . |
| 20 | THE Isle of Man has become the first British authority to issue plastic identity card driving licences with tamper-proof colour photographs , using a £30,000 digital imaging system developed by Hitachi and NBS Card Systems of Weybridge , Surrey . |
| 21 | Although in 1927 Barbusse had attended the First Congress of Proletarian Writers held in Moscow , and although he had appeared to voice support for the new policy of subordinating the literary process to the construction of socialism , his actual writing practice was completely out of step with the doctrinaire ideas of RAPP . |
| 22 | From Titron had come the first man who could withstand radiation , be it from a bomb , or in deep space . |
| 23 | Sir John Cockroft , the Director of Harwell , had won a Nobel Prize for his 1932 work where , with the prototype high energy nuclear accelerator , he and Ernest Walton had made the first artificial disintegration , or fission , of atomic nuclei . |
| 24 | The rock star Midge Ure has become the first person to give a concert at the Oxford Union . |
| 25 | On Friday , Sept 13 , Seb Grieve made the first ascent of the outstanding rib right of Dangerous Crocodile Snoggin at Ramshaw . |
| 26 | Delaney had taken the first watch with Forster . |
| 27 | On the other hand , Spurs ' coaching double act of Ray Clemence and Doug Livermore opted for words of wisdom rather than wrath , after Liverpool had dominated the first half . |
| 28 | The BBC had missed the first international wicket of the season , in preference to a weather report and some local tittle-tattle . |
| 29 | However , it quickly became clear that the opera would not be ready in time for September , even though Mozart had finished the first act by 22 August . |
| 30 | Two studies in Sweden have provided the first convincing evidence of a link between exposure to electromagnetic radiation from overhead power lines and the incidence of cancer , according to officials from the Swedish National Board for Industrial and Technical Development . |