Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] the first [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Club is the first television channel dedicated to management training and business information and its programmes are transmitted directly into the home or business by the BBC . |
| 2 | Oudran was the first police officer to be convicted for his conduct during the demonstration . |
| 3 | Naked Lunch is the first Cronenberg film I have sat through without being reduced to a state of rigid terror . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Clarins Eau Dynamisante is the first skincare product which provides both beauty and fragrance benefits . |
| 6 | The Skills Audit was the first City Challenge project to get underway and the team carried out interviews in about 10,000 households in the area . |
| 7 | In the early 1970s , Habitat was the first retailing company to install electronic point of sale systems ( EPOS ) in its stock control department for the automatic replenishment of stocks . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But the big talking point was the first half bust-up involving the rivals managers and team officials . |
| 10 | Cash was the first country star since Jim Reeves to break out into the pop charts . |
| 11 | The Gloucester and Sharpness inland waterway was the first ship canal in the world . |
| 12 | Same tomorrow , and the following night is the first charity block-booking of patients from the Elizabeta Hospital . |
| 13 | The delivery day is the first business day after the last trading day which is the third Wednesday of the delivery month . |
| 14 | Terry Storry 's British White Water is the first canoeing guide to comprehensively cover the classic white water rivers of England , Scotland and Wales . |
| 15 | The occasion was the first dinner dance at the building to be organised by Staff Club Scotland . |
| 16 | The initial defence of his title was the first world championship held in Scotland . |
| 17 | He had swiftly risen to prominence during student demonstrations in favour of a multiparty system in Tirana in December 1990 , and the DP had that month been the first opposition party to be formed [ see p. 37924 ] . |
| 18 | Now the product has been launched in Europe , and The Software Magazine is the first UK publication to evaluate the product . |
| 19 | The Guyana Telecommunications Corporation was the first state company to be sold , 80 per cent of its shares being bought in January 1991 for US$16,500,000 by the Atlantic Telephone Network , a company based in the US Virgin Islands . |
| 20 | Digital Equipment Corp is the first US computer major to open a wholly owned subsidiary in Romania , its seventh in the old Eastern Bloc . |
| 21 | The enthalpy change is the first ionisation energy of sodium ( see section 2.2 ) . |
| 22 | As the verb is the first trouble spot encountered in the sentence , the substitution is made there . |
| 23 | Completing the professional trio is the first lady professional in the district — 22-year old Sally Rippon from Stinchcombe Hill who started playing at 16 and within three years was down to handicap 4 . |
| 24 | In this sense Legion was the first missionary figure in the Gospel . |
| 25 | The Prime Minister was the first world leader to announce his intention to attend the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro this June . |
| 26 | Pluvinel was the first riding master to oppose the cruel methods in use by his contempories . |
| 27 | The course was the first accountancy degree offered in Ireland and it is recognized by the accountancy bodies as a ‘ relevant degree ’ . |
| 28 | On the left is the first tenement block to be built in Prague in 1813–47 and designed by J. Hausknecht . |
| 29 | Situated in a quiet , residential area of Melton Mowbray , Wexford House was the first Eagle Lodge to open . |
| 30 | External approval has come with the ISO9000 certification for quality systems — International Färg was the first paint company to get it in Sweden — and the momentum for improvement is maintained by a quality committee meeting every month . |