Example sentences of "make [adj] [prep] the first " in BNC.

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1 Somervillians have never lacked energy , as was made clear by the first of ourJills of All Trades , Ruth Spalding .
2 Many of the people who were made redundant during the first wave of financial job losses in 1990 have found work in other fields .
3 Hanrott was made responsible for the first ‘ Council ’ visits , at which they saw some quite ‘ unsuitable environments ’ , information from these visits being fed at first into the subject boards rather than into the Council itself' .
4 I had imagined that if the Secretary of State was interested in doing his job properly he would have said to us , ’ Mr. Stoner 's opinion will be made available to the first meeting of the Select Committee . ’
5 MOSCOW — Huge amounts of computerised information held in Soviet data bases are to be made available for the first time to Western research , it was agreed at a conference for Western and Eastern scientists here , writes Justin Arundale .
6 He it was who rescued a number of precious unpublished test recordings from private collections , and caused them to be made available for the first time .
7 With the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls , however , a corpus of Essene material was made available for the first time , and it is now possible to assess the Essenes on their own terms .
8 Their report , published by the Worldwide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) , draws on climate data made available for the first time to the West by the Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences .
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