Example sentences of "[vb -s] the first [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Ampex produces the first video recorder . |
| 2 | Our new size Journal represents the first format change since 1976 when the former tabloid paper became an A4 magazine . |
| 3 | OBJECTIVITY ALSO HAS THE FIRST OBJECT DATABASE FOR WINDOWS NT |
| 4 | Poet Software Corp reckons it has the first object database for NT ( CI No 2,176 ) , but Objectivity Inc is stomping at its heels with the Objectivity/DB Starter Kit for Windows NT , also claiming it to ‘ the first object-oriented database management system for Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT operating system ’ . |
| 5 | Poet reckons it has the first object database for NT , but Objectivity Inc is stomping at its heels with the Objectivity/DB Starter Kit for Windows NT , also claiming it to ‘ the first object-oriented database management system for Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT operating system ’ . |
| 6 | It has the first research information and library service to be registered to ISO9001 . |
| 7 | Few mystical treatises get off to a more intriguing start than The Fire of Love , which describes the first time Rolle became aware of a heat in his breast which , he insists , was not imaginary or metaphorical but which could be felt as a finger felt the heat of the flames in which it had been thrust . |
| 8 | Commenting on the company 's figures ( see opposite ) , AT&T Co chairman Robert Allen says the first quarter results , excluding the accounting changes , auger well for the rest of the year . |
| 9 | PRO says the first application binary interface specifications will be put before the PRO board in December , with beta tests scheduled for January 1993 . |
| 10 | The Tour has begun , and by evening we 'll know who wears the first maillot jaune . |
| 11 | Tuesday sees the first TV screening of the controversial film Jesus of Montreal — it 's on Channel Four , starting at 10 p.m . |
| 12 | The photograph shows the first lifeboat boat to be lifted in the new hoist , the Watson class Joseph Soar ( Civil Service No. 34 ) , as part of the proving trials by the contractors , Laings . |
| 13 | The agreement marks the first time Nato has taken on a mission beyond its borders since the alliance was founded in 1949 . |
| 14 | As he reaches the first solo stage , therefore , the pupil must either achieve a standard of flying which does not leave room for criticism , or he must learn to accept the particular instructor 's comments as fair and helpful . |
| 15 | But , as vinyl hits its final downward path , Tokyo 's Finail Technology company introduces the first laser turntable for vinyl discs . |
| 16 | His reading of the First Symphony is second to none and he includes the first movement exposition repeat . |
| 17 | In a narrow sense my main interest is the period in which the Kaiser ruled over Germany , which of course includes the First World War . |
| 18 | The X Business Group is going to throw what it calls the first industry conference for X Windows , GUE and client/server technology June 7-8 , just before Xhibition , at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose , California . |
| 19 | Handwriting recognition software is still lousy , and it seems the first pen systems will just have pre-programmed forms loaded . |
| 20 | for direct processing the track index does not make it clear which records are in overflow and which in the prime data area ; this prevents the first overflow record being retrieved as quickly as is achieved in the two-entry index system — at least while it is the only overflow record . |
| 21 | Section 4 describes the wealth and asset return measures used and presents the first stage regression used to obtain instruments for expected returns . |
| 22 | In this way glycine becomes the first amino acid in the protein , being carried into position on the ribosome assembly line by its tRNA . |
| 23 | today this becomes the first railway shadow franchise , its operations hived off into a separate company ready to be sold . |
| 24 | At the centre of this system is a conventional closed.loop stepping motor control , in which a START signal changes the phase excitation pattern once and initiates the first motor step . |
| 25 | The firm of Longman claims the first dust jacket , on Heath 's Keepsake for 1835 . |
| 26 | The starting pulse also triggers the first delay circuit , which delays the pulse for a time , during which the motor moves to the first phase switching position . |
| 27 | When the number of steps to be executed is equal to the number of deceleration delay circuits the downcounter produces a pulse , which switches off the clock and also triggers the first deceleration delay , T1' . |
| 28 | Often at dawn the sky would be perfectly clear and the air had the crispness that heralds the first night frost . |
| 29 | The activity of this membrane enzyme thus provides the first control step in the prostaglandin pathway by limiting the availability of arachidonic acid substrate ( Figure 5.2 ) . |