Example sentences of "the first [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The impact of the oil crisis and its associated inflation led to the first actual decline in income for OECD countries for over a quarter of a century . |
| 2 | THE PROSPECT of tax increases in next month 's Budget appeared to recede yesterday as the Chancellor , Norman Lamont , received the first good news in a year on Britain 's public spending . |
| 3 | People buying shares in British Telecommunications Plc will be able to deal in shares by punching the keys on a normal push-button telephone : the retail investment company ShareLink Ltd said the service , the first such scheme in Europe , is being offered as part of the marketing campaign for BT3 , the UK government 's sale of a third tranche of British Telecom shares , marketing of which began yesterday ; the system will later be extended to cover other shares ; the government 's remaining shares are to be sold in July ; pricing and details of whether all the remaining 21.8% stake will be sold are due in June . |
| 4 | In 1880 Milne founded the Seismological Society of Japan , the first such society in the world . |
| 5 | It 's the first such attack in Gloucestershire , although other forces are investigating similar incidents . |
| 6 | Since the formation of the first such combine in 1968 , comprising six units of production with a total of around 6,000 individual members , the Mondragon planners have made it a recommended practice to group individual cooperatives into such units . |
| 7 | In the first such case in the UK , Leeds-based John Richardson Computers Ltd has successfully argued that copyright should protect the look and feel of a program ; the court decided that a plaintiff does not need to show source code has been copied to prove infringement , and that copying non-literal aspects of a program , such as structure and organisation , could well constitute infringement ; the company 's dispute arose with a former employee over rival applications aimed at the pharmaceutical industry ; in the past , copyright cases have dealt exclusively with copying of actual program code . |
| 8 | Delegates also approved observer status for the Hungarian Socialist Party ( MSzP ) , the first such decision in favour of a former communist party from eastern Europe . |
| 9 | This was the first such sale in the government 's privatization programme . |
| 10 | Despite the protests , local elections for the country 's large provincial and metropolitan assemblies went ahead on June 20 as scheduled — the smaller assemblies having been elected in May , the first such elections in more than three decades . |
| 11 | The first such trips in the spring of 1980 represented a victory over the KGB . |
| 12 | Under the Act he was appointed medical officer of health for the borough of Liverpool from 1 January 1847 , the first such appointment in England ; initially part-time , the post became full-time in 1848 at an annual salary of £750 . |
| 13 | A motion of censure on the government , reproaching it for economic incompetence and for promoting " anti-popular " and " antisocial " policies , was tabled by the four opposition parties on May 14 , reportedly the first such motion in the parliament 's history , but was defeated by 200 votes to 83 . |
| 14 | Memorex Telex NV 's Peripherals Group in Milpitas , California has made good on its promise to offer a version of its 5100 Automated Tape Library for IBM Corp AS/400 9406 processors , and claims that it is the first such library in the AS/400 market . |
| 15 | Public-sector workers began industrial action on April 27 — the first such action in the sector since 1974 — after employers rejected a mediating panel 's proposal for a 5.4 per cent wage rise on the grounds that it failed " to take account of current economic conditions " . |
| 16 | In 1922 she was promoted professor in Swahili and the Bantu languages , the first such chair in the British Isles ; she then established the School 's diploma in Swahili studies ( 1924 ) , the first qualification of this kind in a British university . |
| 17 | When the 28-bedroom Sundial opened it was the first new hotel in the town for 240 years . |
| 18 | I sang the first sixteen bars in a soft velvet voice , standing perfectly still and letting the sad lyrics speak for themselves . |
| 19 | William Perkin , an Englishman , invented the first man-made dyes in 1856 . |
| 20 | He worked with them for ten years , initially on the Sydney harbour and Newcastle upon Tyne bridges , and then from 1931 on the design and construction of welded steel bridges , of which his Billingham bridge was the first all-welded bridge in Britain . |
| 21 | When Peter the Great gave up the first Russian fleet in southern waters after being disastrously defeated by the Turks in 1711 , he said that " The Lord God drove me out of this place , like Adam out of paradise " . |
| 22 | John Pilmay 's glasshouse at Silkstone may have been the first successful venture in the district . |
| 23 | Even so , it was the first successful attempt in this genre because it gave its performers an opportunity to reveal their talents as actor-dancers . |
| 24 | Augustus laid out the first Imperial residence in this part of Rome , followed by Tiberius , Caligula and Domitian ; Septimius Severus built here on a very large scale . |
| 25 | With a dry wit and an infectious Brooklyn drawl , Karen , as part of the Flatbush-based Soulboys group of club-runners , was responsible for some of the first illegal parties in New York , as well as having the much-coveted job of doorperson at various Manhattan clubs . |
| 26 | The game was the first tied match in the World League and Alexander said : ‘ I feel like I 've let the whole team down . ’ |
| 27 | The ruins of this 900-year-old castle , the first Norman castle in England , stand on the West Hill cliff top commanding panoramic views . |
| 28 | Although many were appointed to established societies and institutes some were to found their own missions — such was the case of George Annand Mackenzie , the first born-deaf man in Britain to get a M.A. degree . |
| 29 | Dr. Bernard L. Pitcher was the first born-deaf man in Britain to gain a doctorate , and in 1988 , was still alive living in retirement at Worthing , Sussex where he was the secretary of the local deaf club . |
| 30 | The island supports a lighthouse , unmanned since the 1930s , and one of the first automatic stations in the Trinity House Group . |