Example sentences of "first [to-vb] this [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Regrettably , Saudi Arabia was the first to lead this campaign within OPEC . |
| 2 | Kuypers was the first to use this technique in studies of the brain and over the next 10 years , now in the United States , he charted at a new level of detail the connections made by the cerebral cortex with nervous elements in the brain-stem and spinal cord that control movement in a number of higher mammals . |
| 3 | I think I am right to claim that I was the first to adopt this plan vs Rudi Douven at Charlton in 1983 . |
| 4 | It is not by accident , therefore , that Fujitsu was first to take this route in Japan . |
| 5 | Probably Schoenberg was the first to exploit this system in his Chamber Symphony Op. 9 ( 1906 ) . |
| 6 | Among the first to exploit this property on an industrial scale in the eighteenth century were William Worthington and William Bass , and when trade marks began to be registered under the Trade Marks Act of 1875 , the very first was William Bass 's familiar red triangle . |