Example sentences of "make [pers pn] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | This will make them the first and fifth most visited attractions in the world , with the other three being existing Disney sites . |
| 2 | … commanded his armie to halt , and himselfe went alone to the toppe where , having sighted the Mar del Sur , he knelt down and raising his hands to Heaven , pouring forth mighty praises to God for His great grace in having made him the first man to discover and sight it . |
| 3 | Il Moro won , becoming the first challenger to claim a finals place , while Nippon 's loss to New Zealand made her the first to be eliminated . |
| 4 | MOUNTAIN adventurer Rebecca Stephens was yesterday thought to have set off on the final stage of a climb which will make her the first British women to reach the top of Everest . |
| 5 | He said afterwards that he had understood Terry had come out just to allow him to reach his goal , but it was an unfortunate end to a splendid innings , which made him the first English batsman since Barrington in 1967 to score three consecutive centuries in a series . |
| 6 | Faldo took his 1992 winnings to a world record £1.5m , while Norman 's only consolation was that the £190,234 runner's-up cheque made him the first player in history to breech the $10 million barrier in career earnings . |
| 7 | Eleven years later the World Federation of the Deaf at the seventh Congress in Washington awarded him an International Solidarity Merit Award , and Gallaudet College , taking advantage of his presence made him the first recipient of a medallion for " outstanding international service to the deaf " , which he received at a special convention attended by the Vice-President of the United States . |
| 8 | ( George 's conviction made him the first high-ranking member of the CIA ever to be convicted of felony offences while conducting official duties . ) |
| 9 | I said to her if she did n't make it the first time , let her lend you my hammer she said do n't you talk like that and do n't you let e Geoff hear you ! |
| 10 | The reasons for the widespread development of the particular form of alphabetic literacy evident in Greece must clearly be sought in the social structure ; Goody and Watt , however , insist that ‘ considerable importance must surely be attributed to the intrinsic advantages of the Greek adaptation of the Semitic alphabet , an adaptation which made it the first comprehensively and exclusively phonetic system tor transcribing human speech ’ ( ibid. pp. 40–1 ) . |
| 11 | His reward came in July 1655 when Carvajal and his two sons were endenizened , thus making him the first English Jew , at least since the expulsion in 1290 . |
| 12 | It was announced at the same time that the UK Prime Minister , John Major , would travel to Beijing to sign the agreement , making him the first Western head of government to visit China since the crushing of the pro-democracy movement in June 1989 . |
| 13 | Venables raised £2.5m for a 23pc stake , making him the first man to play for , manage , and part-own a major English soccer club . |
| 14 | Sister Murphy had been the last nurse to be with Sister Edith Cavell , and King George V had honoured her by making her the first to receive a medal for bravery at one of his levees . |
| 15 | Between the last years of the 16C and about 1653 , they rebuilt the Church of St Salvator making it the first church in Prague of the Counter-Reformation . |
| 16 | Burlington , California-based Object Design Inc has put ObjectStore , its object-oriented database system , on SunSoft Inc 's Solaris 2.1 , making it the first object database ported to the system . |
| 17 | Scotts Valley , California-based Microport Inc 's System V.4 now supports Corollary Inc 's multiprocessor and XM multiprocessor hardware designs , making it the first independent software vendor to provide a shrinkwrapped multiprocessing version of Unix SVR4 . |
| 18 | Object Design also announced that it has done an implementation of its ObjectStore object-oriented database for the NCR Corp System 3000 , making it the first object database on NCR kit under Unix System V.4 . |
| 19 | His comments followed the announcement on the same day by the leading US credit rating agency , Standard and Poor 's , that the country had been assigned a BBB investment grade rating , making it the first of Latin America 's problem debtors of the 1980s to meet international standards of credit-worthiness . |
| 20 | This makes them the first chain of salons in the U.K. specialising in both Afro and European hairdressing . |
| 21 | The posting , which places her in command of some 12,000 soldiers across four counties , makes her the first woman brigadier to be appointed to a command role . |
| 22 | So it was that her charisma and undoubted beauty helped to make her the first lady air correspondent in the world . |
| 23 | We do not envisage using the TA to respond immediately to outrages in Northern Ireland or to make it the first wave of our assault for the repossession of Kuwait . |
| 24 | I sat back and treated myself to a cigarette , determined to make it the first and last of the day . |
| 25 | Hitachi Data Systems claims that its 7490E Cartridge Tape Subsystem , now shipping , makes it the first IBMulator to deliver 36-track , bi-directional tape units with improved control units that provide higher performance and direct Escon channel attachment . |
| 26 | Scotts Valley , California-based Microport Inc 's implementation of Unix System V.4 now supports Corollary Inc 's multiprocessor and XM multiprocessor hardware designs , saying it makes it the first independent software vendor to provide a shrink-wrapped multiprocessing version of the operating system . |
| 27 | IBM Corp 's Distributed Relational Database Architecture is starting to pick up acolytes , and Informix Software Inc , Menlo Park has announced Informix-Gateway with DRDA , claiming that this makes it the first major Unix database vendor fully to support the IBM architecture . |
| 28 | IBM Corp 's Distributed Relational Database Architecture is starting to pick up acolytes , and Informix Software Inc , Menlo Park has announced Informix-Gateway with DRDA , claiming that this makes it the first major Unix database vendor fully to support the IBM architecture . |
| 29 | This makes it the first manufacturer to produce a sub-£200 24-pin printer , the company claims . |