Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] be [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | East Anglian brewers Greene King have launched a manual on food hygiene believed to be the first of its kind in the brewing industry . |
| 2 | Australia 's first illustrated book , believed to be the first leather-bound copy of any Australian book , The Birds of New South Wales , by John Lewin , published in Sydney in 1813 with eighteen hand-coloured illustrations , is estimated to fetch £150–200,000 ( $265–350,000 ) . |
| 3 | A £1.9M grant to supply three duck processing plants to China — believed to be the first supplied by a British company — has been awarded by the Overseas Development Administration . |
| 4 | Campus Construction , believed to be the first journal of its type for students of construction , is being published by the Institute 's Commercial Directorate and will initially appear three times a year . |
| 5 | A HI-TECH body scanner , believed to be the first of its kind in the North-East , scans its first patient next month . |
| 6 | Health Images , the company behind the Magnetic Imaging Centre , Lingfield Way , hopes the scanner , believed to be the first of its type in the region , will be in high demand . |
| 7 | Prof Anderson yesterday confirmed to the The Scotsman that he will outline the proposals , believed to be the first of their kind on such a scale in Britain , to councillors and officials this morning at a private meeting . |
| 8 | Combining the new technique with the scientific system of the Roman law , Gratian and his school were able to provide the Church with what came to be the first part of its corpus of official law . |
| 9 | If it happened to be the first Sunday in the month my mother , my Aunt Gertrude and my two sisters ( after their respective confirmations ) went to early service — 7 o'clock Holy Communion at the Parish Church of St. Martin 's . |
| 10 | We made love , it just happened to be the first time for me . |
| 11 | The words happened to be the first I could enunciate . |
| 12 | VenturCom Inc 's real-time E-Venix/386 Unix operating system will now support X-Windows , claimed to be a first for an embedded operating system : the company has made it possible to embed Network File System on a diskless single-board computer via the E-NFS facility . |
| 13 | Which MP claimed to be the first in a thousand generations of his family to have been to university ? |
| 14 | The new 0662 family is a line of 1.0Gb 1″ high , 3.5″ disk drives claimed to be the first anywhere to store 1Gb in a 1″ high unit using a second generation magneto-resistive head for areal density of 354M-bytes per square inch . |
| 15 | The resulting machine is being launched by Lenexa , Kansas-based DeskStation Technology as the ARCStation 1 , claimed to be the first personal computer to use the power of RISC in combination with an EISA chip set to provide a migration path for current personal computer users to high-end Windows NT applications . |
| 16 | Spectragraphics ' newest development is PC-Xview for NT , claimed to be the first X-Windows server for Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT — which does n't actually exist as a product yet . |
| 17 | They claimed to be the first all-women trade union to strike for recognition and their cause is well known in El Salvador because — as they describe it — they had to fight the " marines " ! |
| 18 | As a matter of fact , he hated anyone to get to the post before himself , needed to be the first to turn them over and sort them out . |
| 19 | Ironically , in view of Tanzania 's later advance along a socialist path , this proved to be the first entirely commercial radio service in English-speaking Africa . |
| 20 | The ‘ Unification ’ of April 1937 , and the appointment in January 1938 of the first Nationalist cabinet , proved to be the first steps in the creation of the authoritarian regime which , following the Nationalist victory in 1939 , was to govern Spain for another 36 years . |
| 21 | Cassie felt compelled to continue to talk , as though her chatter could put right what appeared to be the first wrong note of the evening . |
| 22 | There had to be a first emergence somewhere . |
| 23 | Ruth was not going to admit that she had never actually made a phone-call herself , but there had to be a first time for everything , and since Connor was out , this would be the ideal opportunity . |
| 24 | A fierce aunt shocked me by telling me shyness is a form of rudeness and selfishness , and that I had to be the first to talk to two people . |
| 25 | The first one on stage had to be the first off the coach that trundled them to and fro . |
| 26 | And now , to cap it all , poor Byford had to be the first army victim of the latest IRA tactic — Flying Columns-compact bands armed only with a few rifles and automatic pistols , moving soundlessly at night along country lanes on foot or on bicycles , and waiting behind roadside hedges — waiting for hours , days if necessary — for a patrol to come along . |
| 27 | Mr Chihana made it clear , however , that he intended to be the first opposition leader to confront the government openly from inside Malawi . |
| 28 | Like our poor parliamentary candidate , I would have no chance of being elected , but it would be a beginning , though perhaps one I would have despised several years earlier when I looked down on parish-pump politics and intended to be the first woman prime minister . |
| 29 | We never wanted to be the first one when she had a new stick of make-up as she did n't take the cellophane wrapper off . |
| 30 | If there was news of Claire Fraser , Joe Burns wanted to be the first to hear it . |