Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard Cocco Senior at the Palisade Music Company would like the bass playing world to know that he has developed the first 4-wrap low B bass string , as part of the R. Cocco 5-string bass set . |
| 2 | After years of anticipation , the Taiwanese-backed NuTek USA Corp in Cupertino , California has finally come down to the wire with its Macintosh-compatible technology : the company claims that it has developed the first machine that emulates the Macintosh without requiring installation of Apple Computer Inc 's proprietary ROMs . |
| 3 | Ottawa , Canada-based , ObjecTime Ltd , a Canadian Bell Northern Research Inc subsidiary , claims it has developed the first Unix object-oriented CASE tool for real-time applications , ObjecTime . |
| 4 | WITH a triumphant twang of the zither , the City University of London has filled the first Joe Loss Research Fellowship in Jewish Music . |
| 5 | Woodbury , New York-based Cablevision Systems Corp says it has completed the first stage of its electronic superhighway to homes , businesses and institutions in the New York metropolitan area : the $300m project , scheduled for completion in 1995 , involves installation of over 3,000 miles of fibre network . |
| 6 | On behalf of CEPT , the Conference on European Posts and Telecommunications , the European Radiocommunications Office has completed the first Detailed Spectrum Investigation into the use of radio frequencies in the microwave or millimetric spectrum — between 3.4GHz and 105GHz . |
| 7 | These provide a means for lexicographers to review and amend dictionary material which has completed the first stage of processing , as well as a facility for the transfer of portions of the dictionary material to a typesetting and composition operator . |
| 8 | Working for the Giunti publishing house , Boskovits again has edited the first volume of The Origins of Florentine Painting by R. Offner ( L230,000 ) . |
| 9 | Hobson Brown , in Russell Reynolds ' New York office , maintains that his firm , more effectively than the other headhunters , has attracted the first real career-search consultants , graduates from business schools who have deliberately chosen to make a career in executive search ; it was always the goal of Reynolds himself to build up a business as prestigious and high-powered as Morgan Guaranty , in which an ambitious graduate would seek to work right through to retirement . |
| 10 | An all-female catering unit from Hainault , Essex , has won the first stage of a nationwide competition being held by Sutcliffe Catering to find the best Indian theme day at one of its units . |
| 11 | In the Britain in Bloom competitions it has won the first prize in the Village Section successively for Yorkshire and Humberside ( for which it retained the Challenge Shield after winning three times ) , England and the United Kingdom . |
| 12 | A BOY who has won the first national Kids Who Care award is to use his prize money to buy a guide dog for his brother . |
| 13 | EDINBURGH District Council 's Construction Skills Training programme has won the first UK award for the use of new technology in training . |
| 14 | But although Mansell has won the first four races this season , he 's trying not to be over-confident about making it five . |
| 15 | Ms Sandra Milton , aged 31 , has won the first Scheduled Services Award for selling more trips from the airport than any other travel agent during the last 12 month . |
| 16 | The group of researchers that has seen the first indications of a Z particle is code named UA1 , and is one of the two teams that reported the evidence for the W particle earlier this year . |
| 17 | The academic year 1992/3 has seen the first year of fully modularised courses at Napier . |
| 18 | Although Mao has been the subject of countless biographies , David Goodman has written the first fitting biography of Mr Deng . |
| 19 | The European Commission has accepted the first set of standards worked out for the EC 's ecolabelling scheme , which aims to inform consumers about the environmental impact of particular products . |
| 20 | Suppose that the student has answered the first question in the other way ; is he now to answer the second ? |
| 21 | Since 1979 it has done the first ( seek efficiency ) and the second ( pare everything ) but never the third ( redefine the welfare state ) . |
| 22 | In addition to the third instalment on the Cuyp , the national gallery has made the first instalment on a Cranage painting . |
| 23 | A pleasure steamer has made the first day trip down the Severn to the Devon coast for almost a century . |
| 24 | The J. Paul Getty Museum has produced the first volume in a new series of fine quality facsimile editions of volumes from its manuscript collection . |
| 25 | SAAB has produced the first pictures of its first new car for quite some time , the new-look 900 . |
| 26 | The survey has produced the first national estimate of below tolerable standard houses derived from consistently applied methods . |
| 27 | CANCER drug campaigner Janet Murray has had the first tablets which may give her a chance of a normal life . |
| 28 | The self-evident gap between fantasy and reality — which is that no government , anywhere , of any political complexion has got the first clue about how to organise society in the post-Cold War world — has led to an aimless disgruntlement , a poisonous mixture of envy and ennui . |
| 29 | Yet if the IPPR has its way , the Labour Party will be adopting parent-friendly , talent-rewarding policies well before Lord James Douglas-Hamilton has got the first secondary school to say goodbye to our authoritarian system . |
| 30 | Part of their group , the 60 Artillery Support Squadron , has lead the first convoy of dozens of army trucks taking aid to refugees in central Bosnia . |