Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BEFORE THE YEAR is out Paris should see the first sprouting of architect Jean Nouvel 's Tour Sans Fins . |
| 2 | As a pattern making and using system the mind must accept the first acceptable answer . |
| 3 | SCO boasts it 'll have the first COSE-compliant desktop on the market . |
| 4 | This may provide the first observable category of classroom behaviour for a workable schedule . |
| 5 | Of the verderers he could see nothing , but so strong was his sense of present danger that Allen remained half-hidden watching until the sun came up over the forest and the wet rock slabs of the Waste shone like glass and he could feel the first faint warmth of the sun 's beams striking on his face . |
| 6 | Deprived of the usual dash of digital and chemical additives , it could become the first easy-listening album for the post-E , no power generation . |
| 7 | Two men who helped George Blake , a Soviet spy , to escape from prison in 1966 could become the first British authors in recent history to have royalties seized by the courts . |
| 8 | Sir : Just before John Paul II was elected there was speculation that Cardinal Hume could become the first non-Italian Pope for several centuries . |
| 9 | A footprint in a muddy field could provide the first real lead for police hunting the man who 's become known as the horse ripper . |
| 10 | I could visualize the first restless stirring among tribes on the steppes of Central Asia , then the terrifying eruption of hordes of unknown people : lurching , creaking wagons , unkempt women and children , squat , slit-eyed men in padded garments , innumerable horses , felt tents , troops of mounted archers forever on the move . |
| 11 | Soon he would smell the first sour tang of winter on the sea breezes . |
| 12 | According to early ethological studies , it seemed that the young of certain birds like ducks and chickens would follow the first moving object they met and form a lasting attachment to it ; also that this attachment could take place only within a sharply limited period early on in development , and that it would affect all subsequent relationships . |
| 13 | Recent palaeomagnetic results , suggesting that there are persistent preferred longitudinal paths for the virtual geomagnetic pole ( VGP ) during reversals , would provide the first direct evidence of the solid mantle 's influence on the core , although their statistical significance has been disputed . |
| 14 | In New York , television computer projections suggested Mr David Dinkins , a Democrat , would become the first black mayor of the city , beating the Republican , Mr Rudolph Giuliani . |
| 15 | The announcement by Gray , 49 , caused widespread consternation amongst political commentators as his successful 12-year congressional career had led many to predict that he would become the first black Speaker of the House . |
| 16 | At 1989 prices , this would turn the first British PWR into a £2 billion project even before it had generated a single kilowatt of electricity . |
| 17 | If the new arrangements are adequately funded and properly implemented , they will comprise the first major government initiative to foster care at home rather than in institutions . |
| 18 | The 1994 World Cup Finals in the United States will be staged at nine venues and will feature the first indoor stadium ever used in the tournament 's history , the Silverdome in Pontiac , Michigan . |
| 19 | Northamptonshire will become the first official touring team to play in South Africa when their pre-season tour starts in Natal on March 24 . |
| 20 | It is possible that by the mid-1990s — barring a few suburban services — Canada will become the first industrialised country to abolish passenger trains completely . |
| 21 | LLANELLI will become the first Welsh club to earn match receipts of £100,000 when the Heineken League leaders take on champions Swansea today . |
| 22 | A painting of a garden at Auvers-sur-Oise by Van Gogh , finished only days before he killed himself , will become the first historical monument to go under the hammer in France when it is sold at Drouot salerooms on 6 December by Paris auctioneer Maître Jean-Claude Binoche of the firm Binoche et Godeau . |
| 23 | The analysis of these data together with the use of hitherto unused qualitative information will provide the first detailed and accurate account of bank behaviour with respect to lending practice and thus allow a proper assessment of the central issues . |
| 24 | This will provide the first historical study of how groups of men and women in Britain experienced different types of career patterns in the course of their adult lives . |
| 25 | When the goslings hatch , they will recognize the first moving object they see as the creature to follow around for the next few weeks . |
| 26 | ‘ But we will have the first National Hunt racing on all-weather anywhere in the world at our first meeting ( Lingfield 's opening card is all Flat ) and we are also staging the first trials at racing pace on the new surface ( they take place on Sunday ) . ’ |
| 27 | Constable reckons it will have the first UK-published book on the Waco disaster . |
| 28 | The trade weekly says that United Microelectronics Corp will produce the first commercial version of the chip set using a 0.6-micron CMOS process and pitching for a 50MHz , 39 MIPS CPU for availability oapart in the second half of the year . |
| 29 | Thomson Consumer Electronics Inc has chosen Milpitas , California-based C-Cube Microsystems Inc to supply the very-large-scale integrated circuits for the RCA Digital Satellite System that will receive the first high-power direct broadcast satellite television service in the US beginning next year . |
| 30 | The danger is that the designer will accept the first feasible design solution found , rather than systematically search for the optimum . |