Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] the first [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Sandeman was the first port company to acknowledge publicly that sales were a crucial aspect to any business . |
| 2 | The 11.00 on Good Friday was the first passenger train over the rebuilt Rheidol Bridge which is a particulary fine structure . |
| 3 | Blackwell was the first woman doctor , graduating in New York in 1849 and later opening a dispensary on New York 's lower east-side . |
| 4 | Will Kelly Connor be the first woman champion Jockey ? |
| 5 | On Oct. 9 the government refused a US extradition request for Salomom Shourter Benitez , and on Oct. 19 Gonzalo de Jesus Rincon Perez was the first drug trafficker wanted in the USA to surrender under these conditions . |
| 6 | The settlement day for money market securities in the UK is the first business day following purchase . |
| 7 | In a nation which is as sports-crazy as Brazil , and which has produced a number of greatly distinguished drivers , of which Emerson was the first world champion , the interest is hardly surprising . |
| 8 | Kent County Council in the UK was the first beta test site for the new Unix versions and says that the new products enable it to reduce significantly the unit costs of functions such as paying invoices and processing journals . |
| 9 | It would be unfair and inaccurate to suggest that PageMaker was the first desktop publishing program , that honour probably goes to the now defunct Studio Software 's DO-it which actually ran on a PC rather than a Macintosh and , of course , there had been electronic publishing systems based on workstations and mainframes available for several years . |
| 10 | Bill Oddie was the first comedy hippy , they had stupid hit singles ( something Python only managed ten years after the event ) , they got stuffy BBC presenters to do daft things ( Raymond Baxter in string underpants ) and , true to form , they went to ITV in 1980 and were crap . |
| 11 | FENASTRAS was the first trade union federation to really take the question of women 's rights seriously . |
| 12 | CPF is the first film manufacturer to receive the award , which was launched in Britain two years ago to assess how companies meet customer needs . |
| 13 | PAUL WILLIS from Bury St Edmunds is the first prize winner in our Wetpets sponsored competition for marine fishkeeping projects . |
| 14 | The F-Plan is the first slimming diet which enables you to follow this formula . |
| 15 | Since Major is the first government leader from an EC country to have visited Clinton in the White House he might just have considered tackling them head on . |
| 16 | SARAH Banks is the first woman candidate ever to fight Durham City . |
| 17 | ‘ Hitler was the first rock star — the first to use a light show . |
| 18 | In 1904 Mitsukoshi was the first department store to open in Tokyo . |