Example sentences of "the [noun sg] have [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time Johnstone was helped ashore , the manager Willie Ormond had been alerted and the story had taken the first few faltering steps into football mythology . |
| 2 | Children born in the United Kingdom to students , visitors or illegal immigrants no longer automatically acquire British citizenship at birth , but they will still be able to register as British citizens if either parent later becomes a citizen or settles in the United Kingdom , or if the child has spent the first ten years of its life in the country . |
| 3 | The Institute has become the first professional institution to be registered for its headquarters administrative operations under BS 5750 . |
| 4 | In a flurry of seminars both in the US and in Europe members of the team have presented the first results from the experiment . |
| 5 | On 19 December 1989 Vinelott J. declared that the plaintiffs were not entitled to object to items in the accounts on the ground that the items were unreasonable in amount except where the items challenged formed part of litigation costs that had been directed to be taxed on an indemnity basis , in which case the plaintiffs could make objections appropriate to a taxation on an indemnity basis unless ( a ) the court had deprived the first defendant ( as mortgagee ) of any relevant costs ; or ( b ) the court had ordered taxation of any relevant costs on some other basis save where there was no inconsistency between such an order and the first defendant contractual right to payment of such costs . |
| 6 | By a respondent 's notice dated 1 July 1991 the first defendant cross-appealed , seeking an order that on the taking of accounts and inquiry ordered to be taken by Chief Master Munrow on 14 March 1988 , the plaintiffs were not entitled to raise an objection to the defendants ' accounts on the ground that the items were unreasonable in amount unless the court had deprived the first defendant as mortgagee of relevant costs . |
| 7 | ‘ unless … ( a ) the court has deprived the first defendant ( as mortgagee ) of any relevant costs ; or ( b ) the court has ordered taxation of any relevant costs on some other basis save where there is no inconsistency between such an order and the preservation of the first defendant 's contractual right to payment of such costs ( for example , where such an order has been , or is hereafter , made against the mortgagors or any of them and other persons joined as co-plaintiffs or co-defendants with the mortgagors or any of them ) . |
| 8 | In their notice of appeal the plaintiffs ask for that order to be set aside and , in its place , for an order declaring that they are entitled to object to items in the accounts , whether litigation costs or non-litigation costs , on the ground that the items are unreasonable in amount , and for an order declaring that the first defendant is not entitled to have its litigation costs taxed on an indemnity basis if and to the extent that the court has deprived the first defendant , as mortgagee , of any costs nor in respect of litigation costs already the subject of an order for taxation on some other basis . |
| 9 | It seeks , in place of the order made by the judge , an order declaring that the plaintiffs are not entitled to object to any items in the accounts , whether in respect of litigation costs or non-litigation costs , on the ground that the costs are unreasonable in amount unless the court has deprived the first defendant , as mortgagee , of the relevant costs . |
| 10 | The Navy had won the first round of the carrier battle : Sandys now conceded the RAF 's case for developing the TSR 2 around a new airframe instead of forcing the naval NA 39 upon them . |
| 11 | This was what the surveyor had told the first buyer to whom Jarvis 's mother had offered the School in 1976 . |
| 12 | ( 1 ) The Commission has raised the First Council Directive of 11 May 1960 for the implementation of article 67 of the E.E.C . |
| 13 | Suppose that the student has answered the first question in the other way ; is he now to answer the second ? |
| 14 | As for training , as my hon. Friend the Member for Bosworth ( Mr. Tredinnick ) has just reminded us , the Government have introduced the first and only guarantee anywhere in Europe of a two-year training place for every 16 and 17-year-old who needs it . |
| 15 | The government has issued the first licence permitting the irradiation of food . |
| 16 | The survey has produced the first national estimate of below tolerable standard houses derived from consistently applied methods . |
| 17 | The business meeting disclosed that the BDDA had survived the first year successfully , but that its formation had not been greeted with enthusiasm by the deaf and dumb of the United Kingdom . |