Example sentences of "the first [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was also the first to print five more Erasmus titles in English or Latin , the latest being Sir Thomas Chaloner 's translation , The praise of folie , 1549 ( STC 10500 ) . |
| 2 | He grinned at the enthusiasm ‘ Or that Martel , a French speleologist , was the first to explore these caves in 1896 . |
| 3 | Joe Turi , the first to go clear in the jump-off , was pushed back to third place on Country Classics Vital . |
| 4 | The Revenue is centralising its cases on this point at claims branch and of course the value to the Revenue of fighting these cases is far greater than the value to individual taxpayers ; on the other hand , the financial risk for the individual taxpayer of being the first to take such a case before the Special Commissioners or higher , would be extremely high . |
| 5 | The first compared face-to-face interviewing both with telephone interviewing and with a mixed-mode approach . |
| 6 | It was n't a bad-looking saucer and Rex was the first to appreciate that . |
| 7 | Consequently these areas are the first to exhibit extra fat and the last to actually reduce . |
| 8 | Surely that 's the , that is the house where Queen Elizabeth the first spent all her girl hood . |
| 9 | Immediately everyone charged around the room attempting to be the first to touch all the walls . |
| 10 | DENNIS SILK , a three-time Cambridge Blue who also played for Somerset , was names as MCC 's next president at the club 's AGM at Lord 's on May 6 , Silk , 60 , who retired recently as Warden of Radley College , takes over from Michael Melluish on Oct 1 , and will be the first to spend two years in office , under anew rule passed at the AGM . |
| 11 | The first scanning acoustic microscope ( SAM ) was built in 1973 by a team at Stanford University in California , headed by Professor Calvin Quate . |
| 12 | Inset left Cooks organized the first advertised chartered air tour in 1927 , to view the world heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey defend his title against Gene Tunney . |
| 13 | The first had 16 metres of tunnels , with three open and two old , now blocked , entrances . |
| 14 | The first had three bedrooms and a gym — a must for Geoffrey — on a 21ft wide , 107ft deep plot in Hampstead . |
| 15 | The first surveyed 2,500 individuals of whom about one third had received training in the last 3 years . |
| 16 | The first planned triennial Caribbean Community ( CARICOM ) conference on the economic future and development of the region was held in Port of Spain ( Trinidad ) on Feb. 27-March 1 under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago , Arthur ( Ray ) Robinson . |
| 17 | He felt for the words that should follow , the first step that was as hard as a death , or more truly , as hard as being born again . |
| 18 | The 1911 Census was the first to ask detailed questions about fertility , child survival , and occupation ( Craig 1987 ) and to use a form of classification of social class ( Szreter 1984 ) . |
| 19 | Timaeus , a Sicilian historian albeit resident in Athens , was the first to collect extensive information on the past of the Romans . |
| 20 | The historians Ephorus and Timaeus , who in the fourth and third centuries B.C. were the first to collect extensive information about Gaul and Spain , do not seem ever to have visited these countries . |
| 21 | Among the first to exploit this property on an industrial scale in the eighteenth century were William Worthington and William Bass , and when trade marks began to be registered under the Trade Marks Act of 1875 , the very first was William Bass 's familiar red triangle . |
| 22 | Probably Schoenberg was the first to exploit this system in his Chamber Symphony Op. 9 ( 1906 ) . |
| 23 | ‘ It would be very appropriate for Courtaulds — the first company in the world to exploit viscose rayon — to repeat history at the end of the century and be the first to exploit this new technology . ’ |
| 24 | And it would be very appropriate for Courtaulds — the first company in the world to exploit viscose rayon — to repeat history at the end of the century and be the first to exploit this new technology . |
| 25 | Held 2–8 March , the fair enjoyed twice as much space in its new premises , the Grand Palais , as it had done in its former venue , the basement of the Hotel George V. Still an all-French affair despite the eagerness of foreign galleries to get in , this year 's Salon was the first to include nine contemporary dealers , including Gerald Piltzer who made a last minute decision to join in . |
| 26 | This study , to be carried out by Professor Roy King and Dr Kathleen McDermott of the Centre for Social Policy Research and Development at UCNW , will be one of the first to include both prisoners and their families in the same study . |
| 27 | News At Ten was the first news programme to get in the ratings Top Ten , the first to employ two newsreaders ( Alistair Burnett and Andrew Gardner on the first edition ) , and the first to make use of foreign reports and the catchphrase ‘ Brent Sadler , News At Ten , Dagenham ’ . |
| 28 | NDT Eagle 's training facility can now boast that it is the first to employ three ASNT level III accredited tutors . |
| 29 | The first uses large , two metres tall puppets which can be easily seen by large audiences . |
| 30 | The pAcAB4 vector has an additional polyhedrin promoter in opposite orientation to the first copy that is in juxtaposition to the first p10 promoter . |