Example sentences of "the first [noun] [to-vb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first way to do this , as I mentioned in the previous chapter , is to underline the punch with a loud shout . |
| 2 | It was also the quickest 400 metres hurdles in the world this year — clinching her place in history as the first European to win this event . |
| 3 | It was also the quickest 400 metres hurdles in the world this year — clinching her place in history as the first European to win this event . |
| 4 | Although Hope was the first sportsman to convey this view , it was replicated time and time again by black footballers , athletes and boxers . |
| 5 | Same-Lamborghini is the first firm to fit this feature . |
| 6 | The first Conservative to utter this call was not , as A. J. P. Taylor has said , Churchill , but Lord Hailsham ; Attorney-General and Lord Chancellor in Baldwin 's 1924–9 Conservative government , Hailsham was excluded from the National Government as unacceptable to National Labour , on account of his role in piloting the 1927 Trades Disputes Act through Parliament , and ( along with Leo Amery ) to the Samuelite Liberals , on account of his support for tariffs . |
| 7 | On completion , later this year , ICI will be the first manufacturer to produce this CFC alternative in all the three main markets of Europe , North America and Asia Pacific . |
| 8 | Alva Myrdal and Viola Klein 's Women 's Two Roles was one of the first studies to adopt this concept : its focus is the position of women in the labour force and the problems of combining home and work . |
| 9 | It was also agreed at the meeting that , as the greater accuracy of the steel bows was enabling more archers to hit the nine inch diameter gold , an inner gold in the form of a three inch diameter black spot would be added , and the first arrow to pierce this would win the silver arrow . |
| 10 | FORD was the first company to introduce this leasing-type scheme for its private customers . |
| 11 | It originates from an Italian request to the Council of Ministers in 1973 to identify environmentally ‘ balanced ’ and ‘ unbalanced ’ areas in the Community ; the first attempts to do this were unsuccessful and , though by 1981 it was clear that a new approach based on an environmental information system was the most promising one , funding for this was not secured until 1985 . |
| 12 | Max Weber ( 1864–1920 ) was one of the first sociologists to outline this perspective in detail . |
| 13 | The first people to reach this remote peninsula were the Old Stone Age people who sought shelter in caves such as Hoyle 's Mouth near Tenby and Priory Farm Cave at Monkton . |
| 14 | Is it wholly chimerical to hope that a newly elected Tory government with an unassailable majority might do its duty , however painful for itself , and take the first steps to reverse this pernicious evil and restore the tried and tested order of our ancestors by which only those fitted to rule have any right to elect the government of this country under the Crown ? |
| 15 | The first steps to remedy this can be taken by an LEA prepared to think of its specialist services as a coherent structure . |
| 16 | For the first Christians to claim this as the heart of their faith was a scandal of the first order . |
| 17 | She is the first woman to hold this post . |
| 18 | Mary Law was the first teacher to face this issue : |
| 19 | The first town to acquire this status was Bristol in 1373 , and others followed , York in 1396 , Newcastle in 1400 , Norwich in 1404 and Lincoln in 1409 . |
| 20 | ‘ I might 've known he 'd be the first rat to desert this sinking ship . ’ |
| 21 | On Nov. 1 the IDA , as the party with the greatest number of seats in the National Assembly , unanimously endorsed Sharif as Prime Minister , the first Punjabi to hold this office . |
| 22 | The first visions to distort this mirage had appeared on the southern border of Lebanon or from the sea off Beirut in 1946 when the Covenant was barely three years old . |