Example sentences of "set [adv prt] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE UNITED Nations is planning to set up the first international research centre for applying genetic engineering and biotechnology to crops . |
| 2 | He revisited the USA in 1917 to play a decisive part in helping to set up the first official American military intelligence service . |
| 3 | BLANTYRE 's Jim McCann and Richard Corsie , from Edinburgh , go into action in today 's semi-finals of the Midland Bank World Indoor Singles Championship attempting to set up the first all-Scottish final for four years on Sunday . |
| 4 | FOREIGN ministers of the Organisation of African Unity endorsed a plan yesterday to set up the first pan-African peace keeping force , despite a chronic shortage of money . |
| 5 | They set up the first important theatre in Prague in the Clementinum with the Czech language as its medium . |
| 6 | Also on Dec. 23 , leading intellectuals set up the first independent human rights monitoring group , the Forum for the Defence of Human Rights , which set itself the goal of the release of all political prisoners . |
| 7 | When Edward Shevardnadze resigned as foreign minister , he at once set up the first privately financed think-tank in the Soviet Union , the Foreign Policy Association . |
| 8 | In a bid to boost environmentally-friendly tourism , the Broads Authority and Eastern Electricity have set up the first of a series of recharging points for electric boats on the northern rivers of the Broads . |
| 9 | The other four winning projects are : Community Education , Whitechapel Art Gallery , London , an educational programme under the direction of Lucy Dawe Lane involving over 200 artists living in the East End of London , ( the award will be used to set up after-school activities for local Bengali children and their families ) ; Art in Albany Prison , Isle of Wight , where Colin Riches has set up the first art centre in a maximum security jail , providing full-time employment and art education for eighteen long-term prisoners , ( Colin Riches will use his award to carry out further researches into the benefits of art in prisons ) ; Art Trust , Homerton Hospital , London , where the inspiration of surgeon William Shand has covered the bare walls and public spaces of the new building with specially-commissioned pictures and sculpture , ( the award will be used to commission a major sculpture for the principal courtyard ; and The Fan Museum , Greenwich , London , the first museum of fans , set up by Dicky and Helen Alexander who have donated their collection of 2,000 fans to the museum , ( the award will be used to provide proper storage facilities for the collection ) . |
| 10 | United made sure of the win midway through the second half … a gold star for David Collins having set up the first he made the second too … |
| 11 | Palmer won the man-of-the-match award after a superb performance , setting up the first two goals and scoring the third . |
| 12 | This was solved by setting up the first stall run by the eldest most respected woman in the village . |
| 13 | Robinson ran a school for retarded Christian children and had clashed with local villagers , who accused him of setting up the first Israeli settlement in Lebanon . |
| 14 | and also er setting up the first assignment for you . |
| 15 | Here he pursued his special interest in the surgery of inflammatory bowel disease , setting up the first stoma care clinic for patients who had had ileostomies , a form of colostomy . |
| 16 | He set up the first try with a fine break after 11 minutes , for Lloyd to round off the move with an impudent dummy . |
| 17 | It was Johnny who set up the first weekly pools and bingo competitions at the Palace and it is from those humble beginnings that the massively valuable present-day lottery has grown . |
| 18 | With a solo exhibition of the works of Klaus Suss from Chemnitz ( until 5 May ) , Gunar Barthel continues its introduction to the artists who set up the first collective gallery of the GDR ( called ‘ Clara Mosch ’ using the initial letters of the names of its founder members ) . |
| 19 | The government had been thinking about ways for the administration to maintain some degree of control over the colonies since the mid-1650s ; in 1675 Charles set up the first organization to establish any record of continuity , a sign that his possessions overseas were settling down into some sort of discernible order . |
| 20 | When John Moores set up the first Littlewoods catalogue in 1932 , housewives ' shopping clubs were all the rage . |
| 21 | In 1873 he returned to England to take up the post of electrician to the Highton Battery Company , and in 1877 set up the first experimental overhead telephone line in England , only two years after the invention of the telephone in the United States by Alexander Graham Bell [ q.v . ] . |
| 22 | He indirectly set up the first try for Kenny Hooks , and his catching and powerful driving off the tail of the line out kept Collegians on the back foot . |
| 23 | The Lions eased away after the anticipated all-action start from North Harbour and a 70-yard touch kick by Rob Andrew set up the first score in the ninth minute . |
| 24 | Renault set up the first European organisation to collect and recycle certain car parts which had not previously been dealt with . |
| 25 | They knew the town 's closed order already had links with South Africa where , in 1931 , a group from the Carmel Convent set up the first Carmelite convent in Johannesburg . |