Example sentences of "[vb -s] the first [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This week he records the first two programmes for his 21st series of TV 's Record Breakers . |
| 2 | While the book charted his passage through Chicago , New York and finally Los Angeles , it largely skips the first two circles of hell . |
| 3 | The Channel Tunnel construction is moving rapidly from the plan to the site and the new terminal represents the first definite move to link the region with the continent . |
| 4 | Narin 's seminal Report to the Foundation , carried out by Computer Horizons Inc. on data from the Science Citation Index , represents the first major effort by any country 's scientific policy-makers , to use bibliometric indicators to forecast and plan research expenditure on a national scale , although Price had , in 1969 , related the size of a country 's scientific literature to its Gross National Product ( GNP ) . |
| 5 | The recommendation from the evaluation studies that ‘ the traffic restraint concept as a principle of planning should be continued ’ represents the first official adoption in German planning of traffic restraint . |
| 6 | The oligonucleotide ML1 represents the first 48 nt of the coding strand of the 5' U3 region of HIV-1 with three nt altered ( underlined ) in order to introduce two restriction digestion sites such that the oligonucleotide contains an Hae III , an Ava II and an EcoRV site as indicated |
| 7 | This new strain ( KT1026 ) has been satisfactorily evaluated in Australia and represents the first commercial release of a genetically engineered microorganism for biocontrol . |
| 8 | Jackson 's next work , An Essay on Bread ( 1758 ) , defended bakers and millers against malpractice charges levelled by Peter Markham [ q.v. ] and Joseph Manning , and it represents the first reliable book on the chemical detection of food adulteration . |
| 9 | Incorporates the first traditional clay oven in Scotland . |
| 10 | The degenerate octamer-TAATGANAT oligonucleotides A and C differ only at position 11 ( see Fig. 4A ) and compete equally well for binding to the labelled ICP4 sequence as the completely homologous TAATGARAT sequence B. The Ad2 degenerate octamer-TAATGAR motif oligonucleotide A , which contains the first four bases of the octamer fused to a perfect TAATGARAT motif , seems to be a stronger competitor than oligonucleotides B and C. In summary , the results displayed in Fig. 4B and C clearly show that the POU domain of pou[c] binds with high affinity to the TAATGARAT and degenerate octamer-TAATGAR motifs and with very low affinity ( only detectable after overexposure of GMSA signals ) to the canonical octamer motif . |
| 11 | It contains the first detailed plans for the Himalayas , which all the big names in the business have been working on for years . |
| 12 | Goldney garden , which appears to have developed to the whims and fancies of the women in the family , has the first two characteristics but not the last . |
| 13 | Paul Merton has the first post-modern catchphrase . |
| 14 | Poet Software Corp , Santa Clara , says it has the first object-oriented database system running under Microsoft Corp 's NT in the shape of Version 2.0 of the company 's Poet object database . |
| 15 | It has the first analytical group to hold Good Laboratory Practice ( GLP ) , National Measurement Accreditation Service ( NAMAS ) and ISO9001 certificates simultaneously . |
| 16 | UK , Cambridge-based , Tadpole Technology Plc , has the first multi-processor implementation of Motorola Inc 's 88110 on VME architecture . |
| 17 | Often , however , he is under such pressure to complete the project by a given date that he accepts the first feasible solution he arrives at instead of working systematically towards the optimum . |
| 18 | While the report describes the first two options as the most far-reaching and effective in the long term , it acknowledges that they would cause severe economic strains ( because of the dependence of the local economies on irrigated crops ) and that the required infrastructural improvements would be very expensive . |
| 19 | ‘ He 's only come because the press are here , ’ says the first fat lady . |
| 20 | According to a book I 've got it says the first ten games of that glorious start saw is in with 5 wins and five draws ( we then went and lost to palace in the last minute ) . |
| 21 | Planning and control in ‘ real money ’ — cash limits The first significant change from PESC volume control which was broadly recognized as having failed , came with the widespread introduction of cash limits . |
| 22 | May 1992 sees the first Female Focus Exhibition . |
| 23 | The summer vacation of 1993 sees the first 10 Enterprise Studentships being awarded . |
| 24 | A less glamorous version of its origin sees the first Manx cat as nothing more than a Manx sailor 's pet — a curiosity brought home after travels to the Orient . |
| 25 | Next year sees the first English Bar President of the Council of the Bars of Europe ( CCBE ) , . |
| 26 | The second flower shows the first two layers of petals from a typical Irish crochet rose . |
| 27 | Fig. 4 shows the first few bytes of video ram , with addresses running from the base address upwards . |
| 28 | Figure 6.3 shows the first experimental infrastructure in place during the test phase , but the previous character of the road can still clearly be seen . |
| 29 | ‘ It marks the first genuine attempt to bring alive the remarkable range of heritage and culture which has sustained the area for hundreds of years . ’ |
| 30 | The foundation of the ECSC marks the first significant step towards European union that went beyond being merely consultative and intergovernmental in character . |