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

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1 Goldney garden , which appears to have developed to the whims and fancies of the women in the family , has the first two characteristics but not the last .
2 Richards Shipbuilders has the first four Gem-class minesweepers under construction in its East Anglian yards at Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft .
3 Paul Merton has the first post-modern catchphrase .
4 Poet Software Corp , Santa Clara , says it has the first object-oriented database system running under Microsoft Corp 's NT in the shape of Version 2.0 of the company 's Poet object database .
5 It has the first analytical group to hold Good Laboratory Practice ( GLP ) , National Measurement Accreditation Service ( NAMAS ) and ISO9001 certificates simultaneously .
6 UK , Cambridge-based , Tadpole Technology Plc , has the first multi-processor implementation of Motorola Inc 's 88110 on VME architecture .
7 ‘ I then waited to become pregnant until I 'd had the first two transfusions , ’ she says .
8 Repeat the process for squares 91 to 135 then 136 to 180 and you will have the first 38 rows of squares printed over the full 180 needles , complete with your colour key .
9 SCO boasts it 'll have the first COSE-compliant desktop on the market .
10 ‘ But we will have the first National Hunt racing on all-weather anywhere in the world at our first meeting ( Lingfield 's opening card is all Flat ) and we are also staging the first trials at racing pace on the new surface ( they take place on Sunday ) . ’
11 Constable reckons it will have the first UK-published book on the Waco disaster .
12 We will have the first sevens tournament in Prague in August and we hope to be able to organise sevens competitions before top soccer matches .
13 For all our child protection inter-agency training we have got a standing agreement with private counsellors that if any professionals raise an issue that was personal to them , they could go away and have the first 12 counselling sessions free . ’
14 Apart from the expanding mushroom business Wilgro Nurseries at Thirsk will have the first half acre of a two acre glasshouse officially opened by Mr David Curry , Junior Agriculture Minister , on Friday , March 27 .
15 For example , having the first four on and the last four off may lead the computer to add together two numbers while the reverse may lead it to subtract them .
16 We were thrilled in June to have the first live sea-lion pup born and subsequently raised to young adulthood .
17 NCR Corp claims to have the first mainframe-class system using Intel Corp 's Pentium chip with the launch of its System 3555 symmetrical multiprocessor , announced yesterday .
18 NCR Corp claims to have the first mainframe-class system using Intel Corp 's Pentium chip with the launch of its System 3555 symmetrical multiprocessor , announced today .
19 It is a good touch to have the first two cards the ones your ‘ opponent ’ turned over .
20 Japan Computer also claims to have the first large , high resolution LCD based on Thin Film Transistor technology , and says the XfC is the first of a flat-panel family .
21 Botham had the first six wickets before Marshall and Baptiste held him up for while , Marshall being lucky not to be on the wrong end of a legendary catch when Don Topley , a groundstaff boy who went on to play for Essex , brilliantly caught him one-handed on the square leg boundary , only to put one foot over the rope .
22 No sooner had the first Labour ad appeared on a Darlington Transport Company vehicle than Coun. Peter Jones , one-time chairman of the borough transport committee , warned of dire consequences .
23 So that what we did was , first of all when you filled in your initial choice and then we got a a team choice and now perhaps , what would make a lot of sense is that if we have the first few er team answers one member of this team er , and then we 'll go through the others .
24 Whitney and Hughes both took four wickets , and all 10 wickets fell to catches , as in the Australian first innings : only once previously ( WI v India , Bridgetown , 1982–83 ) have the first 20 wickets in a Test fallen to catches , and the eventual 33 catches in this match was a new Test record ( as was the fact that no-one was bowled — a first for a completed Test ) .
25 Now we have the first royal re-marriage and it is barely raising a ripple .
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