Example sentences of "[vb -s] the first [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This new strain ( KT1026 ) has been satisfactorily evaluated in Australia and represents the first commercial release of a genetically engineered microorganism for biocontrol . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Incorporates the first traditional clay oven in Scotland . |
| 7 | It contains the first detailed plans for the Himalayas , which all the big names in the business have been working on for years . |
| 8 | Paul Merton has the first post-modern catchphrase . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It has the first analytical group to hold Good Laboratory Practice ( GLP ) , National Measurement Accreditation Service ( NAMAS ) and ISO9001 certificates simultaneously . |
| 11 | UK , Cambridge-based , Tadpole Technology Plc , has the first multi-processor implementation of Motorola Inc 's 88110 on VME architecture . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ He 's only come because the press are here , ’ says the first fat lady . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | May 1992 sees the first Female Focus Exhibition . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Next year sees the first English Bar President of the Council of the Bars of Europe ( CCBE ) , . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 20 | The foundation of the ECSC marks the first significant step towards European union that went beyond being merely consultative and intergovernmental in character . |
| 21 | It may seem appropriate that since VR marks the first true merging of technology and imagination , it is sometimes hard to tell where current technology ends and its imagined future begins . |
| 22 | And that raises the first crucial question : in which branches of retailing do economies of scale give a real benefit to the big players ? |
| 23 | Stage two introduces the first formal recognition of marketing as such , but places the marketing manager under the direction of the Sales Director . |
| 24 | The new line includes the first air-cooled machines in the C90 series , a two-processor C92A and a four-processor C94A , which it says were developed in response to demand from Japanese commercial users . |
| 25 | The new line includes the first air-cooled machines in the C90 series , a two-processor C92A and a four-processor C94A , which it says were developed in response to demand from Japanese commercial users . |
| 26 | But as soon as a company takes the first tentative steps from data to information , its decision processes , management structure , and even the way its work gets done begin to be transformed . |
| 27 | The cell bodies along the midline of r2 and r3 now express the transgene , as well as the nerve that exits r2 and innervates the first branchial arch ( Fig. 1 d'-f' ) . |
| 28 | In addition to a normal facial motor nerve , RA induces the expression of the Hox-B1/lacZ transgene in a second motor nerve that exits from r2 and innervates the first branchial arch indicated by the open arrow head ( f' ) . |
| 29 | STEVE CRAM will make his debut at 5,000 metres next month when he becomes the first British athlete to compete in South Africa for almost 20 years . |
| 30 | This magnificent Ducal mansion built in 1674 , houses the first municipal museum and art gallery outside London for fine and applied arts . |