Example sentences of "the first [noun pl] to " in BNC.

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1 The first structures to be considered must be the defences themselves , especially those which protected only an essential core , even though it may extend beyond the government installations .
2 The first proposals to be approved were Berkshire 's own scheme and a more radical one from North East London Polytechnic within the framework of its School for Independent Study .
3 It includes the appointment of the first women to his Cabinet , Gillian Shephard and Virginia Bottomley , and cuts its average age from 54 to 51 .
4 She took great delight in physical freedom , was one of the first women to cycle , loved to row , and climbed the Matterhorn twice .
5 She was one of the first women to be elected to the fellowship of the Linnean Society ( 1905 ) .
6 One of the first women to be awarded a master 's degree in business administration from Harvard University , Franklin had served in the White House under President Richard Nixon .
7 J. D. Hooker was one of the first scientists to be informed of Darwin 's new theory back in the 1840s , and he now came out in public support of the Origin of Species .
8 Two generals and 19 other officers became the first soldiers to be brought to trial in connection with the December 1989 coup attempt , when they appeared before a seven-member military court on May 8 on charges of mutiny and murder .
9 One of the first projects to be undertaken by the environmental group will be the publication of a manual entitled , Environmental Management for Hotels : the industry guide to best practice .
10 Throughout the whole sequence , from the first musings to the final decision , he has been reacting spontaneously to what step by step he has been learning .
11 Sony Corp appointed Michael Schulhof , now vice-chairman of Sony USA Inc , to the post of president and chief executive of its US unit , which will be renamed Sony Corp of America : Schulhof joined Sony in 1974 after a mainly academic career as a physicist and worked on the development of the compact disk ; in 1989 , he became one of the first Americans to be appointed to the board of a major Japanese company .
12 Like the Common Law , the rules of Equity are judicial law , i.e. to find them we must look in the first instances to the decisions of the judges who have administered Equity .
13 The first complaints to be formally filed were by British Columbia , Canadian raspberry producers and an Ontario paving company on April 6 , 1989 .
14 The style of the building is that of the 14th century , and it holds many monuments to previous rectors and the Bethell family , including a reference to Christopher Bethell who was one of the first whites to be killed in the Mafeking riots in July 1884 .
15 The first areas to be painted were the soles of the shoes , the cut edges of the leather and the shoe linings .
16 Managing Director of P&O European Ferries ( Portsmouth ) , Richard Martin , said : ‘ Sponsorship is often one of the first areas to be threatened during times of economic hardship .
17 The first foragers to a feeding site were captured and their light-sensitive cells were painted so that when they returned to the hive they orientated their dances with respect to gravity .
18 Captain Bligh of the Bounty took the first apples to Australia ; Jan van Riebeeck , the founder of Cape Settlement , took them to South Africa and the Pilgrim Fathers who boarded the Mayflower carried them to America .
19 One of the first systems to which the Schrödinger equation was applied was the simplest atom , hydrogen .
20 The first remits to the ACPS were reparation by the offender to the victim for the harm he had done , and non-custodial penalties .
21 Tonight , Lord Scarman hears the first submissions to the independent enquiry into the future of Rover at Cowley .
22 The first enlistments to the Macedonian army were reported on April 13 , although Albanians were said to be refusing to obey the call-up .
23 Sugar was one of the first imports to be reprocessed and used in new products made in Britain , such as jams or biscuits or sweetened drinks .
24 After Henry Hanna 's hall , the first colleges to be established , as Peck tells us , were general schools open to all , such as Brazenose College by St. Paul 's Gate .
25 Some difficulties were experienced in the interpretation of SCOTVEC guidance documents , but this was to be expected as we were one of the first colleges to be involved in developing units for the HNC Pilot Scheme , and telephone communication with the SCOTVEC Curriculum Development Officers , who were most helpful , usually resolved them for us .
26 Shells were among the first substances to be held in high regard despite being of very limited use for practical purposes .
27 It was one of the first chapels to be built in the island .
28 Elena Pinguli and Mentor Belalla , both 17 , are the first Albanians to be allowed to study abroad for 50 years and are throwing themselves into college life with typical Albanian verve .
29 Whenever aircraft returned from raids the first persons to be allowed on board were the squadron armourers , whose job it was to make the bombs safe before anything else could be done , and this could be a highly tricky and dangerous undertaking , especially where incendiary bombs or those with time delay devices were concerned .
30 There is no further mention of Ambrosia in the records , and possibly she is to be identified with the ‘ Dame Ambroise de Saint-Joire ’ named in 1288 among the first entrants to the Carthusian nunnery of Melan ( Haute-Savoie ) founded in 1282 by Beatrice de Faucigny .
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