Example sentences of "has [verb] the first [noun] " in BNC.

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1 After years of anticipation , the Taiwanese-backed NuTek USA Corp in Cupertino , California has finally come down to the wire with its Macintosh-compatible technology : the company claims that it has developed the first machine that emulates the Macintosh without requiring installation of Apple Computer Inc 's proprietary ROMs .
2 Ottawa , Canada-based , ObjecTime Ltd , a Canadian Bell Northern Research Inc subsidiary , claims it has developed the first Unix object-oriented CASE tool for real-time applications , ObjecTime .
3 WITH a triumphant twang of the zither , the City University of London has filled the first Joe Loss Research Fellowship in Jewish Music .
4 Woodbury , New York-based Cablevision Systems Corp says it has completed the first stage of its electronic superhighway to homes , businesses and institutions in the New York metropolitan area : the $300m project , scheduled for completion in 1995 , involves installation of over 3,000 miles of fibre network .
5 These provide a means for lexicographers to review and amend dictionary material which has completed the first stage of processing , as well as a facility for the transfer of portions of the dictionary material to a typesetting and composition operator .
6 Working for the Giunti publishing house , Boskovits again has edited the first volume of The Origins of Florentine Painting by R. Offner ( L230,000 ) .
7 The Insured Person has to bear the first £25 of each and every claim , except in respect of claims for deposits only where the Insured Person has to bear the first £10 of each and every claim .
8 The Insured Person has to bear the first £25 of each and every claim , except in respect of claims for deposits only where the Insured Person has to bear the first £10 of each and every claim .
9 The Insured Person has to bear the first £25 of each and every claim .
10 The Insured Person has to bear the first £25 of each and every claim .
11 The Insured Person has to bear the first £25 of each and every claim .
12 EDINBURGH District Council 's Construction Skills Training programme has won the first UK award for the use of new technology in training .
13 An all-female catering unit from Hainault , Essex , has won the first stage of a nationwide competition being held by Sutcliffe Catering to find the best Indian theme day at one of its units .
14 In the Britain in Bloom competitions it has won the first prize in the Village Section successively for Yorkshire and Humberside ( for which it retained the Challenge Shield after winning three times ) , England and the United Kingdom .
15 The academic year 1992/3 has seen the first year of fully modularised courses at Napier .
16 The group of researchers that has seen the first indications of a Z particle is code named UA1 , and is one of the two teams that reported the evidence for the W particle earlier this year .
17 The European Commission has accepted the first set of standards worked out for the EC 's ecolabelling scheme , which aims to inform consumers about the environmental impact of particular products .
18 Suppose that the student has answered the first question in the other way ; is he now to answer the second ?
19 A pleasure steamer has made the first day trip down the Severn to the Devon coast for almost a century .
20 In addition to the third instalment on the Cuyp , the national gallery has made the first instalment on a Cranage painting .
21 The J. Paul Getty Museum has produced the first volume in a new series of fine quality facsimile editions of volumes from its manuscript collection .
22 SAAB has produced the first pictures of its first new car for quite some time , the new-look 900 .
23 CANCER drug campaigner Janet Murray has had the first tablets which may give her a chance of a normal life .
24 The self-evident gap between fantasy and reality — which is that no government , anywhere , of any political complexion has got the first clue about how to organise society in the post-Cold War world — has led to an aimless disgruntlement , a poisonous mixture of envy and ennui .
25 Part of their group , the 60 Artillery Support Squadron , has lead the first convoy of dozens of army trucks taking aid to refugees in central Bosnia .
26 ( 1 ) The Commission has raised the First Council Directive of 11 May 1960 for the implementation of article 67 of the E.E.C .
27 NEC Electronics Inc has become the first company to announce samples — for next month — of 64M-bit memory chips with 3.3V parts in 0.35 micron CMOS .
28 Peterlee-based TRW REPA has become the first company in County Durham to be recognised as Investors in People , a training benchmark , by the County Durham Training and Enterprise Council .
29 Brian Little has become the first man to win the Vauxhall Conference manager of the month award , worth £250 , for the second time in succession , for Darlington 's unbeaten run throughout October .
30 Edinburgh District Council has become the first UK city authority to promote a car-pooling scheme , following the launch of a commercial venture earlier this year [ see ED 55 ] .
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