Example sentences of "first [to-vb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the first study from the United Kingdom to examine the cost of maintaining patients on long term sclerotherapy , and it is also the first to compare this with a surgical procedure in such patients . |
| 2 | It was February 3 : on Feb 4 , two years before , Richard Hadlee had become the first to reach this once-unthinkable total . |
| 3 | Regrettably , Saudi Arabia was the first to lead this campaign within OPEC . |
| 4 | Dr Stockham was by no means the first to suggest this practice , but in spite of that her ideas met with bitter criticism from several fellow experts in the field . |
| 5 | He also visited another important garden in the area , Meerburg , where the gardener kindly instructed him on the cultivation of pineapples — his employer , M. de la Court , was among the first to grow this fruit successfully in Europe . |
| 6 | He was not the first to do this . |
| 7 | One of the first to do this was the occult writer Dion Fortune , who , in her book The Goat-Foot God , mentions ‘ power centres ’ : Tintagel in the west , St Albans in the east , Lindisfarne in the north , and St Albans Head in the south . |
| 8 | Christians involved in the relief of poverty have been the first to point this out . |
| 9 | This one was thick and protuberant , and bent unexpectedly at the top : it looked like a cross between a penis and a corkscrew , and the little group looked at it as if wondering who would dare be first to point this out . |
| 10 | Kuypers was the first to use this technique in studies of the brain and over the next 10 years , now in the United States , he charted at a new level of detail the connections made by the cerebral cortex with nervous elements in the brain-stem and spinal cord that control movement in a number of higher mammals . |
| 11 | I attempted at first to put this into Ryedale district . |
| 12 | The disc records invented by Berliner were the first to possess this advantage , since they could be stamped out almost like printing . |
| 13 | I think I am right to claim that I was the first to adopt this plan vs Rudi Douven at Charlton in 1983 . |
| 14 | Tim Renton could be said to have been the first to grasp this nettle . |
| 15 | Marx and Engels were probably the first to demonstrate this so emphatically . |
| 16 | Mark Cottrell 's ‘ Radial ’ was among the first to have this feature . |
| 17 | Salgado was not the first to photograph this extraordinary spectacle . |
| 18 | The proposal for a community charge — or ‘ poll tax ’ — put forward by Nicholas Ridley in 1988 ran into furious local opposition , not least among the Scots who were to be the first to pay this new imposition , After all , freeborn Englishmen , led by Wat Tyler , had revolted against a poll tax as long ago as 1381 , and its bluntness and social inequity helped fuel a considerable popular protest , including in the Conservative shires . |
| 19 | It is not by accident , therefore , that Fujitsu was first to take this route in Japan . |
| 20 | Among the first to exploit this property on an industrial scale in the eighteenth century were William Worthington and William Bass , and when trade marks began to be registered under the Trade Marks Act of 1875 , the very first was William Bass 's familiar red triangle . |
| 21 | Probably Schoenberg was the first to exploit this system in his Chamber Symphony Op. 9 ( 1906 ) . |
| 22 | ‘ It would be very appropriate for Courtaulds — the first company in the world to exploit viscose rayon — to repeat history at the end of the century and be the first to exploit this new technology . ’ |
| 23 | And it would be very appropriate for Courtaulds — the first company in the world to exploit viscose rayon — to repeat history at the end of the century and be the first to exploit this new technology . |
| 24 | Eric of Mallion was the first champion to be born in this country , but not the first to gain this title because he did not actually become a champion until he was seven years old . |
| 25 | His big break came when a Rolling Stone critic gave him a rave write-up and major record companies fell over themselves in an attempt to be the first to sign this new blues sensation . |
| 26 | You have to put a book in first , that I was first to speak this morning , you were second and then it 'll be either Kelly Ann or Stephen next . |