Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With Markham , LASMO has achieved two milestones in the British oil industry — the field is the first offshore development lying across the UK/Netherlands median line , and it is producing the first gas to be exported from the UK into the Continent . |
| 2 | The Auditing Practices Board is facing the first test of its credibility . |
| 3 | After just 4 games Swindon 's John Gorman is facing the first pain barrier of the season ; 4 defeats and 14 goals conceded . |
| 4 | Joe Robertson , of Lochend , who is starting the first year of Bachelor of Education ( Technology ) course at the Moray House College of Education . |
| 5 | I 'm dead against this , er , on principle , I think it 's cutting the first sod of the hole that you 're preparing to dig yourselves . |
| 6 | In collaboration with the other UK Research Councils and with international bodies and the European Community , the Economic and Social Research Council is undertaking the first phase of its Global Environmental Change Initiative . |
| 7 | Wendy Georgeson , of Lerwick , who is entering the first year of an LLB law degree course at the University of Edinburgh ; |
| 8 | Mute 's stance follows the news that music industry magazine Music Week is taking the first step to redefining the term ‘ independent ’ by running ‘ a genre chart open to all-comers ’ , next to ‘ an old-style distribution chart ’ , from September 19 . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , and until 14 December , Gilles Peyroulet is hosting the first solo exhibition in France of the American Ronald Jones , a neo-conceptual sculptor who manifests a special dislike of politically-committed art . |