Example sentences of "of the first british " in BNC.
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| 1 | A SURPRISING aspect of the first British performance of Sofia Gubaidulina 's Violin Concerto , subtitled Offertorium , is that it provoked the odd walk-out in Birmingham Town Hall . |
| 2 | A SURPRISING aspect of the first British performance of Sofia Gubaidulina 's Violin Concerto , subtitled Offertorium , is that it provoked the odd walk-out from one or two places in Birmingham Town Hall . |
| 3 | Ganz Hunslet , Hungary 's largest train-builder ( Telfos Holdings was one of the first British firms to take a majority stake in a major East European company following the collapse of Communism ) , is building the bodyshells and bogies , but final assembly will take place in Malaysia . |
| 4 | Ganz Hunslet , Hungary 's largest train-builder ( Telfos Holdings was one of the first British firms to take a majority stake in a major East European company following the collapse of Communism ) , is building the bodyshells and bogies , but final assembly will take place in Malaysia . |
| 5 | A boy who was one of the first British babies born under water in a ‘ birthing tub ’ drowned when he fell in the River Avon , a Plymouth inquest heard yesterday … |
| 6 | So , similarly , in the First World War , we assumed proudly as an accolade of honour the Kaiser 's ridicule of the first British Expeditionary Force as that ‘ contemptible little army ’ . |
| 7 | He was to become the sire of the first British champion . |
| 8 | He was one of the first British footballers to play in the highly competitive Italian league and throughout his short stay in Turin he regularly appeared in the tabloid press alongside actresses like Sophia Loren and Gina Lollibrigida , as part of Italy 's mythical La Dolce Vita : the sweet-life of cappuccino , Ferraris and Gucci shoes . |
| 9 | BSR was one of the first British firms in the market , the United States market that is , with its X-10 . |
| 10 | She ‘ diagnosed ’ one of the first British cases of satanic abuse , in Kent , in 1988 — over the telephone . |
| 11 | Falklands hero Lieutenant Colonel Philip Neame and Dr Christine A'Court , a Royal Army Medical Corps reservist , hope to be part of the first British team to reach the peak in winter . |
| 12 | THE daughter of the first British soldier killed in the present Ulster troubles celebrated her 21st birthday yesterday as the scarred province marked its grimmest milestone . |
| 13 | When David Kay , Roy Goddard and Fred Rogers established their business in 1970 , they were one of the first British firms to operate in the same way as Spencer Stuart , Heidrick and Struggles and Egon Zehnder . |
| 14 | Brenda Sutcliffe should also be remembered as the organiser of the first British Deaf Choir . |
| 15 | Challenges , which was one of the first British series to be produced for non-broadcast use , consists of a set of six programmes , each with a different theme , and each featuring young British people engaged in pursuits typical of their age and culture . |
| 16 | He was involved in the design of the first British train with vestibuled corridor connections between carriages and other improved rolling-stock , as well as the conversion of large numbers of passenger carriages from the broad gauge of 7 ft. between tracks designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel [ q.v. ] to the standard gauge of 4 ft. 8½ ins. , following conversion of the London to Penzance main line in 1892 . |
| 17 | Also at RAF Lyneham today , the body of the first British soldier to be killed in Bosnia arrived back in Britain . |
| 18 | Tonights performance is part of a nationwide series of concerts to celebrate the 250th anninversary of the first British performance . |
| 19 | Their proudest graduate was Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle , the designer of the first British Jet . |
| 20 | But Yvonne Finch is one of the first British women to try this form of contraception . ' |
| 21 | Amur Abdullah from Ilford in Essex is one of the first British adult hostages to be released from the country since the Gulf crisis began . |