Example sentences of "[is] the first british [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 HMS Gloucester is the first British warship to dock in Albania for 54 years .
2 Curiously , this is the first British ascent of a limestone 8b± but someone whose name does not begin with ‘ M ’ — the previous elite being Moon , Moffat , Myers , Myles , Morgan , Martin ( Atkinson ) and Mark ( Leach ) .
3 Applied Energy Services Electric , the UK arm of AES Corporation of America , is the first British operation to propose an offset scheme .
4 Just off the Kurfurstendam , it is the first British project to come out of the ground in the city .
5 And it is not insignificant that the quarterly of which he is the editor is the first British journal which has attempted to relate the British mind to the total European mind ; that has attempted a rational synthesis of the traditions of Roman culture ; that has , in a word , contemplated order .
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