Example sentences of "to [be] the first [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cape Horn has always been a challenge and something he wanted to do … he says the aim is to be the first school group to sail around the world … the other aspect is the whole challenge of the voyage |
| 2 | He is believed to be the first Karate expert in the region to receive such an award and one of only a handful in the country . |
| 3 | I 'M ASHAMED to be the first Scotland captain sent off in an international match . |
| 4 | H TELEWEST TO BE THE FIRST UK CABLE TELEVISION OPERATOR TO INSTALL ITS OWN TELEPHONE EXCHANGES I2128 J02128 E16 Mar 1993 D930316 M9303 Y93 CAGREE T |
| 5 | ‘ George Bush to be the first US President to visit a free Cuba ’ headlines the far-right Miami Diario de las Americas , carrying , on its inside page , details of how to phone Cuba and send over food parcels , as well as where to register your confiscated property for repossession after the regime has gone . |
| 6 | Between 400 and 500 Iraqi troops were reported captured during the fighting , while 31 US personnel were described as missing or captured , including a female Marine who was thought to be the first US woman soldier to be captured by an enemy force . |
| 7 | And now , to cap it all , poor Byford had to be the first army victim of the latest IRA tactic — Flying Columns-compact bands armed only with a few rifles and automatic pistols , moving soundlessly at night along country lanes on foot or on bicycles , and waiting behind roadside hedges — waiting for hours , days if necessary — for a patrol to come along . |
| 8 | They claimed to be the first all-women trade union to strike for recognition and their cause is well known in El Salvador because — as they describe it — they had to fight the " marines " ! |
| 9 | It claims to be the first software supplier to design , develop and market accounting applications software specifically for the growing client-server marketplace . |
| 10 | The onset of Stage 2 sleep is taken to be the first sleep spindle or K complex . |
| 11 | ‘ It seems like a lifetime ago , ’ smiles Don , ‘ I would love , of course , to be the first choice goalkeeper but Damien has been in tremendous form and he 's the best around in my book ’ |
| 12 | The 21-year-old university student is believed to be the first Lurgan sportsman to win senior medals for both football and cricket . |
| 13 | Norrish was elected last May to be the first woman president of the 150-year-old club . |
| 14 | Spectragraphics ' newest development is PC-Xview for NT , claimed to be the first X-Windows server for Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT — which does n't actually exist as a product yet . |
| 15 | Los Altos , California-based Full Source Software Inc has begun shipping UniShred , a $150 suite of media erasure applications that irrevocably delete files and securely obliterate data in files , making any kind of retrieval impossible : it 's claimed to be the first Unix package to conform to the strictest government and commercial standards , directly replacing Unix 's rm utility . |
| 16 | New York-based Linkon Corp will be developing an SBus multimedia communications board called Link Engine FS3000 for SunSoft Inc 's Solaris operating system to give desktops interactive voice response with speech recognition and facsimile capabilities : claimed to be the first SBus offering supporting distributed speech processing applications , it will be generally available by June following a May beta test ; there will be one-to-four port configurations for the desktop and T-1 configuration for large client-server installations ; Europe will be supported by E-1 . |
| 17 | His litter sister Zola , owned by Mrs Pinkerton , was to be the first bitch show champion . |
| 18 | A new periodical , Profil , was first published in July 1989 , claiming to be the first opposition periodical aimed at the establishment of " an independent forum of thought " . |
| 19 | Mr Chihana made it clear , however , that he intended to be the first opposition leader to confront the government openly from inside Malawi . |