Example sentences of "first [noun sg] to be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first decision to be faced is whether the institution needs to be able to make its own recordings . |
| 2 | As with all research , the first decision to be made is the choice of topic and group to be studied . |
| 3 | The first decision to be made is whether to add and extend paths strictly from left-to-right through the utterance ; or whether to allow a middle-out strategy that extends hypotheses both to the left and to the right of some island of comparative certainty ; or whether to implement a combination of these . |
| 4 | These latter ( Ornithischians ) include some animals that walked on their hind legs like Tyrannosaurus , but with vegetarian habits ( Iguanodon , the first dinosaur to be discovered ) ; the group also includes various types of vegetarian armoured and plated dinosaurs , often shown in pitched battle with their carnivorous contemporaries . |
| 5 | Supersaurus is not to be confused with Megalosaurus ( 'giant reptile' ) , a lizard-hipped carnosaur living in the Jurassic and the very first dinosaur to be named and described , looking like a smaller Tyrannosaurus . |
| 6 | The first statue to be put on the bridge was that of St John Nepomuk , by Jan Brokof the Elder in 1683 . |
| 7 | Having taken the field with his directors to become surely the first board to be cheered to the rafters , he was presented with a cheque . |
| 8 | There was a danger of the rising River Tigris flooding the camp , and the hospital was the first building to be endangered . |
| 9 | The Palm House was the first building to be erected in this country with a rolled ‘ I ’ section . |
| 10 | As a Nonconformist he was not admitted to the BA degree until 1857 , the first dissenter to be admitted . |
| 11 | The first hurdle to be overcome was the development of a joint US/New Zealand resolution which would meet not only the concerns of the South Pacific nations which were at the forefront of the initiative , but also would not alienate the US , whose powerful political muscle would be required to gain the necessary support . |
| 12 | The first field to be searched consisted of sixty-acres . |
| 13 | As soon as he entered the first field to be cut his mates up-ended him and gave him the same treatment which stopped only when he shouted ‘ Beer ! ’ . |
| 14 | Durie became the first footballer to be convicted of feigning injury nine weeks ago after a confrontation with Coventry 's Andy Pearce in August . |
| 15 | Sir Stanley Matthews , who was the first footballer to be knighted says he still does n't know what all the fuss is about . |
| 16 | The locks have been the subject of a Health and Safety Executive investigation over the last twelve months and this was the first case to be examined . |
| 17 | Dexter , 57 , was the first chairman to be paid when he took over in March 1989 after Peter May had been in charge for seven years . |
| 18 | It was the first election to be fought essentially on national issues and it witnessed the return not only of a reforming Liberal government but also , and in some respects more significantly , of 27 Labour MPs . |
| 19 | During its history 19 has achieved many ‘ first ’ , the first British unit to receive the French SPAD , the first to operate the Sopwith Dolphin , the first squadron to be equipped with the supersonic Lightning F.2 , but 19 will probably be best known for being the first RAF Squadron to receive the Spitfire . |
| 20 | The Cabinet approved a draft general budget presented by the then Finance Minister , Edmond Rizq , on April 21 , 1990 , the first budget to be approved for five years . |
| 21 | The levy is the first measure to be implemented from France 's White Paper on the environment , which described French waste disposal techniques as being " 15 years behind the times " . |
| 22 | On Jan. 17 an agreement was reached with Italy for $400,000,000 due for 1986-88 to be repaid by the end of 1997 , with the first instalment to be paid in mid-1993 . |
| 23 | The crypt ( which could go back to the first basilica to be built on the site , in the ninth century AD ) , should be completely restored within a year . |
| 24 | A recollection of their work was given by Layton in an interview for the Canadian Theatre Revue in 1977 , in the wake of A Man Was Killed , the first play to be written by them , but tardily presented . |
| 25 | Craobh nan Ubhal ( The Apple Tree ) is the first play to be written and performed in Gaelic , Doric and English . |
| 26 | The first drug to be recognised for its antimalarial effects was quinine , which found its way into the British Pharmacopaea as early as 1677 . |
| 27 | The first course to be approved was in fact in Scotland , and was submitted to the CNAA with the support of the Scottish Education Department in 1970 . |
| 28 | Tooth enamel is the most highly mineralized part of the skeleton , and it is therefore the first part to be affected by acidity in the predator 's stomach . |
| 29 | Row 1 : Bring needle from back to front of work through the stitch below the first stitch to be worked . |
| 30 | Just as in the 1914 war , the first effect to be felt was that of large numbers of operating and engineering staff joining the forces and London Transport had its own Territorial Unit who went to camp in August 1939 and were sent straight overseas without returning to work . |