Example sentences of "[be] the first [noun sg] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think this point has been properly understood by many people who have been given the impression that the films are a kind of expensive toy , when in fact you are the first conductor in history to use film as an integral extension of your work as an interpretative artist . |
| 2 | Yet Tom Fawthrop could write in It52 that the RSSF represented a move away from ‘ the sectarian left ’ and ‘ the move into a deeper , more imaginative level of politics … we will be the first generation in history to consciously plan and map-out its own future , and create a society of its own . ’ |
| 3 | This was to be the first time in history that aircraft were used for ground attack , as an integral part of an operation carried out by ground and air forces . |
| 4 | Adenosine is a ubiquitous product of ischaemia , and occupation of A 1 adenosine receptors seems to be the first step in preconditioning . |
| 5 | H. B. Cott , author of the classic book Animal Coloration , put the point well in 1940 , in what may be the first use in print of the arms-race analogy in biology : |
| 6 | They just could be the first band in history to sell genuine English music to the Americans . |
| 7 | The 1980s , he notes , were the first decade in history in which there was no increase in the area of land farmed and — also for the first time — a fall in the amount of fresh water used per capita . |
| 8 | The balance of trade in manufacturing swung from a surplus of £2.75 billion in 1979 to a deficit in 1984 of £3.75 billion and the years 1983 and 1984 were the first time in history that Britain 's trade balance was in the red on manufactures . |
| 9 | Innocence may be the first casualty of war , as the posters for the film boldly quoted , but it seems good taste is the first casualty in computer-game marketing . |
| 10 | The Order is the first Order in Council made under Section 40 of the Maintenance Orders ( Reciprocal Enforcement ) Act , 1972 |
| 11 | Helping parents clarify the definition of the problem is the first step in assessment . |
| 12 | At 0749 Fuchida sent the signal ‘ To-to-to ’ which is the first syllable in Japanese for ‘ charge ’ meaning the raid was on . |
| 13 | DERWENTSIDE College is the first college in County Durham to accept the Investors in People national standard for staff training promoted by County Durham Training and Enterprise Council . |
| 14 | He is the first critic in print to notice the ‘ balanced predominance of I and thou ’ in Shakespeare 's Sonnets , in the proportion 51.1 per cent to 48.9 per cent . |
| 15 | In his opening address welcoming delegates to the summit on Nov. 19 , President François Mitterrand of France said that " it is the first time in history that we witness a change in the depth of the European landscape that is not the outcome of a war or bloody revolution " . |
| 16 | The trophy , named after a past director of Stoddard 's carpets , has been at the company for the past 37 years , but this is the first time in history that the organisers have opened up the competition for runners up . |
| 17 | It 's the first occasion in fact on which I 've been permitted to speak at any meeting dealing with this application . |
| 18 | ‘ Indica seemed a good name for an art gallery ’ , says Miles , ‘ and it was the first name in Latin for marijuana . |
| 19 | ‘ It was the first name in creation , some say . ’ |
| 20 | This was the first increase in troop numbers for four years , and brought the Army presence to nearly 11,000 ( the peak level , in 1973 , having been some 17,000 ) . |
| 21 | WHO WAS the first American in space ? |
| 22 | It was the first scene in act two . |
| 23 | The EF One Eleven has a good safety record — in its eleven year history this was the first crash in peacetime . |
| 24 | From this treatise and other evidence , it can be deduced that Dom Pérignon achieved the following innovations : he was the first person in Champagne to produce a truly red wine ; the first person to produce a perfectly limpid white wine from black grapes ; he invented the traditional Champagne press ; perfected the art of blending wines from many different vineyards to produce one consistent and superior cuvée , or blend ; reintroduced the cork-stopper to France ; and pioneered the use of stronger English glass to withstand the internal pressure generated by sparkling wine . |
| 25 | But Bell and Tainter 's basic principle , of cutting ( as opposed to indenting ) to get a lower background noise , was the first milestone in recording technology . |
| 26 | This was the first time in history that a trade union banner had been borne aloft in a great military and naval display . |
| 27 | A rifleman hit two men crouching near the Colonel , who later wrote that ‘ this was the first time in warfare that I truly felt fear . |