Example sentences of "to be the first [noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | It claims to be the first software supplier to design , develop and market accounting applications software specifically for the growing client-server marketplace . |
| 5 | The onset of Stage 2 sleep is taken to be the first sleep spindle or K complex . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 ’ |
| 7 | Norrish was elected last May to be the first woman president of the 150-year-old club . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | His litter sister Zola , owned by Mrs Pinkerton , was to be the first bitch show champion . |
| 10 | 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 " . |
| 11 | Mr Chihana made it clear , however , that he intended to be the first opposition leader to confront the government openly from inside Malawi . |