Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] be the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ ICI has been the first in the field with major products , such as polyester fibre and polythene . |
| 2 | iii ) The most recent pilot course has been the first Post-Graduate Diploma course in Interpreting Training Techniques , funded , like the other pilots , by the Nuffield Foundation and held at the Polytechnic of Central London in 1989 . |
| 3 | There will always be the question as to what would have happened if the last remedy had been the first prescription but in my experience that 's the sort of question homœopaths ask rather than patients ! |
| 4 | President Assad had been the first Arab leader to criticize the Iraqi invasion , but there was considerable apprehension in the West that Saddam Hussein 's emergence as a focus of anti-Western Arab radicalism might open the way to a rapprochement between Iraq and Syria . |
| 5 | Few of Camille 's schoolmates , even had they been able to read and write , would go on to a career in the sciences , since the chemistry lab had been the first to succumb , years back , when the rules had just been relaxed and attitudes to education liberalized . |
| 6 | In articles in Der Sturm and Lacerbal Boccioni claimed that the Futurists had been the first to introduce the concept of Simultaneity into painting , and that Léger 's article ‘ Les Origines de la Peinture et sa Valeur Représentative ’ was really a Futurist statement . |
| 7 | Lithuania had been the first of the Soviet republics to declare independence , in March 1990 , and during the coup its two Baltic neighbours followed suit , Estonia on 20 August and Latvia on 21 August . |
| 8 | As the last record added is the first in the overflow chain , it is helpful if this physical order is also the logical order of the record keys . |
| 9 | This place had been the first German prison camp built specifically for British air-crew . |
| 10 | Christians involved in the relief of poverty have been the first to point this out . |
| 11 | But for Christians Sunday has been the first day of the week ever since the faith came into being . |
| 12 | The Royal Navy had been the first Service to react strongly to the Sandys Reformation . |
| 13 | The kingdom of Greece had a longer history ; the Greeks had been the first subject people to break free from Ottoman rule after 1815 . |
| 14 | His eggs had been the first , to hatch on many worlds . |
| 15 | That voyage had been the first leg of a planned circumnavigation , but those dreams had been brutally shattered when Masquerade was stolen from an anchorage in the Florida Keys . |
| 16 | Boyle had been , with one short break , continuously in Government office for eleven years and was to be the last Minister of Education , as Butler had been the first . |
| 17 | Indeed , it appears that an unknown Spanish haulier on this sailing had been the first trucker to actually receive a tangible benefit from the Single Market . |
| 18 | Another characteristic of this recession is that financial and property businesses have been the first to feel the pain of collapsing prices and profits . |
| 19 | Shops selling large electrical goods such as television sets , hi-fi and washing machines have been the first to suffer from the slowdown in spending , while large chains like Comet and Dixons have been losing market share to small independent shopkeepers . |
| 20 | While most interest has been attracted by the expensive buys , one of the cheapest lots on offer has been the first to grade . |
| 21 | Billy had been the first man to call her Annie and she felt strangely pleased . |
| 22 | The journey I had just completed in the Arussi had been the first I had undertaken in the highlands of Abyssinia . |
| 23 | Virtually the whole movement comprises a double canon which begins as in the second violin and viola parts given in Example 90 ( these parts first being played by first violin and viola ) : The point at which our example begins is the first entry of the full orchestra , with the first and second violins in one canon and the violas and basses in another . |
| 24 | The toolset , which Cadre claims is the first integrated solution covering maintenance , test and reuse of existing software , includes six modules : system understanding , a reverse engineering tool for ‘ complete design recovery of C source programs ’ ; function understanding , producing control flow graphs and data and control complexity metrics ; the construction module , which automates the building of source code from Ensemble 's design environment ; test case generation , which automatically builds in test cases at function , unit or subsystem level ; test verification ; and a documentation module . |
| 25 | VG LIMS is the first Laboratory Information Management Systems to be available on the RS60000 series of IMB computers and represents a major breakthrough in this field . |
| 26 | The report , which the Children 's Society says is the first detailed study of runaway youngsters , calls for a national centralised system for collecting statistics on missing juveniles . |
| 27 | For the US or Britain to have been the first to recognize Bao Dai would , said Acheson , have been to give him the kiss of death . |
| 28 | During his visit to London , President Yeltsin noted that Britain had been the first country to denounce the August coup , and the first to recognise Russia ; the first to propose Russian membership of the International Monetary Fund ; the first to propose an April deadline for that membership ; and the first to support a stabilisation fund for the rouble . |
| 29 | A month before , Goma had been the first Romanian to try to imitate the initiative of the dissidents of Czechoslovakia . |
| 30 | Refining ideas which Ruskin had been the first to promulgate , ( Sir ) Robert Hunter , Octavia Hill , and Rawnsley met in the offices of the Commons Preservation Society on 16 November 1893 and founded the organization which , eight months later , was inaugurated under the presidency of Hugh Lupus Grosvenor , first Duke of Westminster [ q.v. ] , as the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty . |