Example sentences of "[noun] to [noun] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHEN Sara Gomer , Clare Wood and Julie Salmon collapsed to a 2-1 defeat to Indonesia in the first round of the Federation Cup in Melbourne last December , they were the laughing stock of the tennis world , writes our correspondent from Tokyo . |
| 2 | I remember that , a few years later , when I took Richard to London for the first time , we experienced a very heavy raid . |
| 3 | Up for grabs are six travel awards from Larne to Cairnryan for the first male and female in each of three age categories . |
| 4 | Cue a sound tape by recording a guide-track to indicate where each section of the music should start and end : set the tape to a start-mark ; set tape recorder to record-pause ; set the video tape to play-pause on the first frame of picture ; release both machines together calling out music cues into a microphone connected to the tape recorder while you watch the pictures on screen . |
| 5 | The percentage of respondents familiar with Call Forwarding and Call Waiting grew in 1992 over 1991 ; from 56% to 62% for the first and from 34% to 46% for the second . |
| 6 | ‘ You 're absolutely right , ’ said Ellen to Bernard on the first night of their wedded life . |
| 7 | The volume of factored turnover rose 10% to £7.52bn in the first six months after an increase of just 2.5% in the whole of 1991 , according to the Association of British Factors and Discounters ( ABFD ) , which represents 11 of the largest factoring companies . |
| 8 | Cost savings , including 1900 job losses , helped boost NatPower 's profits by 10% to £201m in the first half to September 27 . |
| 9 | Earlier , as the government and ANC took steps at the weekend to prepare for South Africa 's first all-race elections , President FW de Klerk gave cabinet posts to non-whites for the first time in South Africa 's history and got rid of white ministers said to be reluctant to back his sweeping apartheid reforms . |
| 10 | On February 24 , company borrowings under the credit agreement totalled $4.3m and the chip designer says that as a result of getting this new credit agreement , restructuring of key equipment leases , and the company 's return to profitability in the first fiscal quarter to December 31 , it believes substantial progress has been made toward killing doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern . |
| 11 | Commenting on its figures ( page seven ) Cypress Semiconductor Corp , San Jose , says that its return to profitability in the first quarter shows that its restructuring efforts are working : headcount has been reduced to 1,394 in the quarter from 1,529 at the end of 1992 . |
| 12 | However they put aside their competitiveness ( the Caledonian and Balmoral in Edinburgh , for example , are fighting for exactly the same guests ) because they know that it is only by working together , as one body , that they will attract visitors to Scotland in the first place . |
| 13 | Enough money came in by mid-March for Chris , a Courtaulds worker for 18 years , and Lorraine to take Leannda to Boston for the first step in the long road to restoring her sight . |
| 14 | He spent from July to October of the first year in the papal towns . |
| 15 | Champions Hampshire are at home to Dorset in the first round on June 24 , while Durham make their first NatWest Trophy appearance as a first-class county against Ireland in Dublin . |
| 16 | Bracknell defeated Keflavik 106-91 in Iceland on Thursday for a 250-196 aggregate win , and are at home to Milan in the first leg on Thursday 26 October . |
| 17 | The England captain is a level-headed man , and Javed Mianded , who turns 35 on June 12 , is a much matured person with the added responsibility of leading his team to England for the first time , although he has captained Pakistan in 28 previous Tests , winning 11 and losing five , the rest being drawn . |
| 18 | He 's taken his team to second in the first division . |
| 19 | The three abortion cases , which may be reached in December , are unlikely to lead to a clean reversal of Roe v Wade , the 1973 Supreme Court ruling which granted an absolute right to abortion in the first three months of pregnancy and an almost unrestricted right in the next three . |
| 20 | P&O European Ferries has operated record-breaking runs on its Dover-Calais service , Sealink has had good increases on all its UK routes and Sally Line passenger numbers from Ramsgate to Dunkirk in the first six months of the year are well up . |
| 21 | A series of extensions , starting with the Great Reform Act in 1832 through a series of extensions in Victorian times , the extension of the franchise to women after the First World War and then to all persons , first over 21 , later over 18 , have changed the picture and the nature of Parliament radically . |
| 22 | We do n't actually recirculate the air within the building , so there 's no business of people on the second floor giving germs to people on the first floor , and then people giving germs to people on the ground floor . |
| 23 | By this means [ the suspended sentence ] we shall substantially avoid sending people to prison for the first time unnecessarily . |
| 24 | The report seems to concede that no export regulation could conceivably have prevented this collection from leaving the country , and also acknowledges that one of the main reasons why Baron von Thyssen , and other great collectors such as Heinz Berggruen , chose to bring their art collection to Switzerland in the first place was , and remains , the great freedom offered by the Swiss legal system . |
| 25 | Sterling Chemicals announced a 97 per cent fall in net profits to $700000 for the first quarter of 1992 compared to the previous year . |
| 26 | Johannsen accompanied Linfield to Tbilisi for the first leg game in Georgia , and like everyone else was unaware of the cash offer to the Turkish officials . |
| 27 | Johannsen accompanied Linfield to Tbilisi for the first leg game in Georgia , and like everyone else was unaware of the cash offer to the Turkish officials . |
| 28 | As a result , life in such temporary accommodation can be extremely stressful and can serve to add markedly to the stresses which gave rise to homelessness in the first place . |
| 29 | The suggestion , mentioned earlier , that there is a hierarchy of hairpin vortices was made in part to help with the first of these problems . |
| 30 | For the next eighty years the argument that a tunnel under the silver streak of the Channel would pose a major security problem held sway , although a tunnel would have been of great advantage to Britain during the First World War . |