Example sentences of "the first [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MCI Communications Corp has begun service this week on the PacRim East fibre optic cable system , the first such cable to link the US and Australia : the Washington company says it is the second-largest investor in PacRim East , which is used by 34 other international carriers and stretches 4,774 miles from Hawaii to New Zealand , and on to Australia via the Tasman-2 cable . |
| 2 | The agreement , similar to one which President Alberto Keinya Fujimori had rejected in September 1990 [ see p.37708 ] , provided for US$34,900,000 in military equipment and training for the army and police force — the first such funding since the USA funded anti-guerrilla operations in 1965 — and $60,000,000 in economic aid ( expected to be increased in 1992 to $100,000,000 ) to assist coca growers to switch to other crops . |
| 3 | People buying shares in British Telecommunications Plc will be able to deal in shares by punching the keys on a normal push-button telephone : the retail investment company ShareLink Ltd said the service , the first such scheme in Europe , is being offered as part of the marketing campaign for BT3 , the UK government 's sale of a third tranche of British Telecom shares , marketing of which began yesterday ; the system will later be extended to cover other shares ; the government 's remaining shares are to be sold in July ; pricing and details of whether all the remaining 21.8% stake will be sold are due in June . |
| 4 | In 1880 Milne founded the Seismological Society of Japan , the first such society in the world . |
| 5 | It was n't the first such attack . |
| 6 | Police in Northumbria believe it is the first such attack on a house . |
| 7 | On Sept. 15 , Egyptian radio had reported that members of the Kuwaiti resistance had assassinated an Iraqi Baa'th party official , Najib Khalaf , in Baghdad , the first such attack inside Iraqi territory . |
| 8 | It 's the first such attack in Gloucestershire , although other forces are investigating similar incidents . |
| 9 | This advice was accepted and the first such Convention was concluded with France on 2 February 1922 . |
| 10 | The first such publication is a facsimile of the ‘ Mira Calligraphiae monumenta ’ , a writing manual with calligraphy by Georg Bocskay , imperial secretary to the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I Hapsburg , written in 1561–62 and illuminated by the celebrated Flemish artist and miniaturist Joris Hoefnagel at the behest of the Emperor Rudolf II around thirty years later . |
| 11 | The Commission for Racial Equality has said that this is the first such ruling and extends the definition of unfair treatment , which may well influence other tribunals ' decisions in future . |
| 12 | The federal government on Nov. 6 , 1989 , announced its acceptance of a free-trade ruling against a Canadian fisheries practice concerning the processing of salmon and herring , the first such ruling under the panels procedure . |
| 13 | It 's the first such building to be bought by a new trust which has been set up to protect some of the country 's loveliest old places of worship . |
| 14 | The first such substance to be synthesised was 1-methyl-1,4-dihydro-4-oxo-3-quinolinecarboxylic acid ( 1 ) , which was obtained in 1949 by oxidising the alkaloids melicopine , melicopidine and melicopicine with concentrated nitric acid . |
| 15 | It is believed that this is the first such interchange to be arranged between a British or a European social research group and one in the People 's Republic of China . |
| 16 | President Roh Tae Woo made a three-day state visit to the United States beginning on July 1 , the first such trip by a South Korean leader for 26 years . |
| 17 | On July 26 the government authorized the deployment of 7,000 troops on the island of Sicily , the first such deployment seen in post-war Italy . |
| 18 | The first such purpose is to show how capitalism and its institutions have been produced by history and how it will therefore be destroyed by history . |
| 19 | On Nov. 10 , 1989 , the British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) World Service accused China of " regular and severe " jamming of BBC broadcasts , the first such instance of systematic jamming . |
| 20 | In a general election on April 9 the Conservative Party , led by John Major as Prime Minister since November 1990 , won a fourth consecutive term of office — the first such instance since the early 19th century . |
| 21 | The Saudis confirmed on Feb. 17 that $3,500 million had been raised by borrowing from foreign banks , the first such resort to the international money market . |
| 22 | President George Bush gave the second State of the Union address of his presidency on Jan. 29 , the first such address to be given during wartime since the end of Vietnam conflict . |
| 23 | June 18 : Israeli President Chaim Herzog addressed the Grand National Assembly , the first such address by a foreign head of state . |
| 24 | It is thought to be the first such venture . |
| 25 | The critique , the first such assault on Mr Zhao 's record in several weeks , focuses on the policy of allowing factory directors greater freedom to run their business without meddling from local party cadres . |
| 26 | It will be the first such treaty since 1766 . |
| 27 | It was the first such treaty to be concluded between Spain and an Arab country . |
| 28 | The international tribunal will be the first such court since the United States , Britain , Russia and France set up a military tribunal at Nuremberg in 1945 to try Nazi criminals . |
| 29 | Traditionally , the beat in the city had been the area for serious mischief — the dread of young men playing pitch-and-toss ( the first such incident is reported in 1839 , and the latest in 1979 ) , and the perils of children flying kites . |
| 30 | The first such inspection was due to take place at a civilian chemical enterprise in St Petersburg , which Western military experts suspected was used as a cover for illicit military work . |