Example sentences of "be [verb] [to-vb] the first " in BNC.
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| 31 | With the dam wall now standing at 57 metres , this year 's monsoon is expected to flood the first few villages . |
| 32 | What is he going to say when he discovers that he is expected to transmit the first report from an advisory unit in the history of government to include an account of the Director 's domestic arrangements ? |
| 33 | ERS-1 is expected to return the first quantitive data on these processes at the poles . |
| 34 | Following the trend spearheaded by Unify Corp with its Accell 4GL toolset a few years ago , Ingres Corp is expected to make the first moves in liberating its own toolsets from the Ingres database next month . |
| 35 | Year II of the core subjects is designed to develop the first year taxonomy of skills at a problem-solving and decisional level and to provide an integrative view of the office environment . |
| 36 | Miss Boothroyd is seeking to become the first woman speaker . |
| 37 | There is , however , the difference that in those cases the control is used to investigate the first instability whereas here it is needed only for the later stages . |
| 38 | BULLIED Pacific No. 34027 TAW Valley is set to become the first steam locomotive to depart from London 's Waterloo with a passenger train in 25 years . |
| 39 | Pinnacle Data Systems Inc , one of the Sparc system manufacturers that plans to build a workstation compatible with Sun Microsystems Inc 's Mbus-based Sparcstation 10 ( UX No 392 ) , is set to become the first customer for Cypress Semiconductor Corp 's 64-bit HyperSparc RISC chip , a CPU which has garnered no discernible industry support since its launch back in May ( UX No 385 ) . |
| 40 | Island Graphics is set to become the first — and so far the only — application for Solaris-on-Intel , to be announced this week at PC Expo . |
| 41 | If the plan proceeds , then Dangerfield is set to become the first significant tourist facility to commemorate the history of textile manufacturing in the Borders . |
| 42 | During one of the many radio interviews he undertakes during the week , he is asked to name the first record he ever bought for a programme called Super DJ On Line . |
| 43 | This technique of free association , in which the patient is encouraged to say the first thing that comes to mind , reveals connotations of the dream image which might otherwise not have been obvious . |
| 44 | The bank is planning a European and American roadshow on April 28 and is negotiating to become the first Portuguese company with a full overseas listing on one of the American stock exchanges . |
| 45 | Joanne Conway , who is hoping to become the first woman for more than 20 years to win five successive titles , made a strong start at the Skate Electic British championships in Basingstoke . |
| 46 | A SINGING Sikh is hoping to become the first Asian to be listed in the Guinness Book of Records — as a chartbuster . |
| 47 | Courtaulds Aerospace at Littleborough in the UK is hoping to become the first business in its industry to gain an award under the new Investors in People scheme which recognises training to national standards . |
| 48 | Pallister has been a key figure in United 's bid to win the First Division championship for the first time in 25 years . |
| 49 | Alistair Campbell ( Wallasey ) is poised to become the first batsman to reach the 500 mark . |
| 50 | One Brownie is chosen to ask the first question . |
| 51 | Glasgow is planning to become the first Scottish city to ban the consumption of alcohol in the street . |
| 52 | In a package to be put before the clubs , the League 's governing body are proposing to increase the First Division from 14 to 16 teams . |
| 53 | All beginners are required to master the first kata before taking their first grading examination . |
| 54 | In Britain it was the face of William Shakespeare that had been chosen to become the first hologramic image used on credit cards . |
| 55 | However , Walker found that if the BFP algorithm was altered to reflect the first three levels of SPAR 's ordering given above , correct results were obtained by eight of the 21 pronouns resolved correctly by Hobbs but incorrectly by the original BFP . |
| 56 | As soon as Leonard learned to talk he was taught to recite the first words of the Shema , the ‘ creed ’ of Judaism which originated on Sinai with Moses and is recited daily : |
| 57 | This feature was designed to cover the first flights of three Spitfires , during the time of its production that statistic changed to four ! |
| 58 | A 450bp SstI-XhoI probe C was used to detect the first intron HS sites 5A and 5B . |
| 59 | Dessie was used to promote the first Sunday meeting at Doncaster last month along with Red Rum . |
| 60 | She was damned if she was going to make the first move . |