Example sentences of "is the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has begun shipping what it claims is the first software engineering tool designed to regenerate AS/400 applications to run on Unix-based workstations quickly and easily , and has been demonstrating the AS/SET WDK-U product in Anaheim , California at the semiannual conference of Common , the IBM mid-range users group . |
| 2 | INROADS first Safe Driving Challenge which they believe is the first competition of its kind in Local Authority has been hailed as a great success . |
| 3 | It 's near the international airport at Shannon is the first thought that springs to mind — but Galway is n't close to Shannon . |
| 4 | The agreement is something of a coup for the Belgian because it is the first instance of a Japanese computer company marketing Sequelink directly . |
| 5 | HP believes OpenView 3.2 is the first instance of CMIP management under XMP-API . |
| 6 | The scheme 's novelty lies in the fact that it is the first instance of an officially sponsored immigration programme . |
| 7 | Mr Patient , who will take up his post in January , is the first UK representative on the IAPC to be appointed chairman . |
| 8 | The field straddles the UK/Netherlands median line and is the first UK field to export gas to mainland Europe . |
| 9 | Now the product has been launched in Europe , and The Software Magazine is the first UK publication to evaluate the product . |
| 10 | Captain Lorenzo is the first member of General Noriega 's inner military circle , known as the Strategic Military Council ( CEM ) , known to have died . |
| 11 | It is the first member of the company 's L-Series SuperSparc line using LSI Logic 's ASIC chipset and Texas Instruments Inc 's 36MHz chip on an EOS-designed PCB layout . |
| 12 | It is the first member of the company 's L-Series SuperSparc line using LSI Logic Corp 's ASIC chip set and Texas Instruments Inc 's 36MHz chip on an EOS-designed circuit board layout . |
| 13 | To our knowledge , atk is the first member of the human src family of oncogenes , which encode intracellular protein tyrosine kinases , to be directly implicated in causing a human genetic disease . |
| 14 | Clovis 's father , Childeric I , is the first member of the Merovingian dynasty to be well attested in the sources , but even he remains a shadowy figure . |
| 15 | Stewart , who 's 32 , and a former care assitant at the school , is the first member of staff to appear in court . |
| 16 | Internal trimming allows a claim of better than +-0.25% multiplication error with no external trim and AD says it is the first type to offer fully differential , high input-impedance working on all inputs , including the Z input . |
| 17 | That is the first backup is \WORK and the second is \WORK\WORK . |
| 18 | I 've been here for years and this is the first conversation I 've had with a human for simply ages . |
| 19 | It is the first assessment of the expanded IT Advanced Courses programme . |
| 20 | The Brook Helpline is the first 24-hour telephone helpline offering young people practical advice on birth control , emergency contraception , pregnancy , abortion , sexually transmitted diseases and other sex-related problems . |
| 21 | ‘ THIS IS the first Smiths single that uses a different tune and manages to avoid both ropey introspection and clever-clever adolescent poetry . |
| 22 | Since its launch last May Convex has received 25 firm orders for the C3800 , which is the first computer to use GaAs instead of silicon chips . |
| 23 | SEGA 's Night Trap is the first computer game to be rated in the same way as a video by the British Board of Film Classification . |
| 24 | Sybase is the first ISV to license Tivoli 's Advanced Development Environment ( ADE ) toolkit . |
| 25 | The unit , which will produce 160 000 t pa , is the first installation of the Mobil/Badger ethylbenzene process to use dilute ethylene as a feedstock . |
| 26 | Leonard Lowe ( De Niro ) , the kid from the opening scenes , is the first patient to undergo treatment … |
| 27 | Sunnyvale , California-based massively parallel systems builder MasPar Computer Corp has put the Prism video compression software from Prism Interactive Corp , Wheaton , Illinois up on its machines , and claims that the combination is the first system capable of producing broadcast quality Motion Picture Experts Group-compatible video output in real time . |
| 28 | This is the first difficulty confronting the growing Church of England church today . |
| 29 | It is the first painting by the artist to be acquired by the Getty . |
| 30 | Pippa Pop-ins in Fulham , London , is the first nursery to keep children aged 1–12 overnight , with ‘ midnight feasts ’ at 8pm and fairies at the bottom of the garden . |