Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [pos pn] first [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eagan , Minnesota-based Cray Research Inc has received its first order from South Africa : the South African Weather Bureau in Pretoria wants a Cray Y-MP2E supercomputer . |
| 2 | THE Sunday Correspondent has received its first brace of libel writs , with one from Emma Samms over ‘ Fresh evidence widens Eagle Trust scandal ’ in the 1 October edition and another from Jonathan Maxwell Wylie Samuelson , who claims he was libelled in the same article and also in one headed ‘ Payments to Samuelson Jnr ’ in the 17 September issue . |
| 3 | Cooksley was 21 last Saturday , Turner is 24 and Bunce has earned his first cap at 30 . |
| 4 | And Gordon has done his first deal with his wife Maggie McKernan . |
| 5 | Gulfstream Aerospace has made its first sale of a Gulfstream IV business jet to the U.S. Air Force . |
| 6 | MICHAEL Heseltine , the Trade Secretary , has made his first decision in the new office . |
| 7 | After he has made his first claim for Landor , Pound writes two paragraphs of the sort that have provoked near-apoplexy , because they have not been taken in the spirit that Pound intended : |
| 8 | CHELSEA Clinton has had her first taste of what it is to be a president 's daughter . |
| 9 | Object software house Ontos Inc has opened its first concern outside of the US — a UK operation that will be up to eight employees by next month , operating out of Richmond , Surrey . |
| 10 | CHOICE Hotels International has opened its first hotel in Thailand , the Quality Hotel Pinnacle in Bangkok . |
| 11 | This year the Library has used its first grant from the Barbara and James Craig Fund to provide additional books for graduate students , and to support two subjects in particular need : Law and Politics . |
| 12 | And this is where a high-fibre diet starts to play its first function in helping you to eat less . |
| 13 | The young Irish writer Colum McCann won last year 's Hennessy award , and now Maggie McKernan has bought his first book of short stories for Orion 's Phoenix House imprint for publication in the autumn . |
| 14 | Following the purchase of a Finnish company , it has landed its first contract with the Soviet Union . |
| 15 | Digital Equipment Corp has found its first partner in France for the Alpha AXP RISC in the shape of a start-up company formed by Jacques Stern , founder of software and systems integration house Sesa SA and former chairman and chief executive of Compagnie des Machines Bull SA . |
| 16 | A four year old girl who 's undergone a revolutionary heart transplant operation has spent her first day at school . |
| 17 | The company has announced its first family of memory upgrades for Digital Equipment Corp 's new Alpha APX-based ( should n't that be Alpha AXP : when you 're busting someone 's embargo , it 's as well to get the name right ) DEC/3000 systems — now that is a name new to us , but is it right ? |
| 18 | Brian Deane has scored his first goal at Elland Road ( thank god ) and hopefully it will be the first of many — he does tend to have a hand in the build up to many of our goals but really he was bought to SCORE the bloody things . |
| 19 | London-based Elonex Plc has taken its first step into the higher-end workstation market . |
| 20 | Finally , the television presenter Leslie Crowther has taken his first steps since being injured in a road accident . |
| 21 | JOE MONTANA has taken his first steps towards an NFL comeback — by imitating Randall Cunningham . |
| 22 | Amid an uneasy calm , Cambodian cultural life is gradually being resurrected : Phnom Penh University has graduated its first class in more than two decades , and Mr Ouk Chea , an archaeologist , has been named Director of Cambodia 's re-formed Department for the Conservation of Historic Monuments and serves also as head of the decimated State Museums . |
| 23 | The missing minister was Mrs Lynda Chalker ( Overseas Aid ) , who for years has retained her first husband in her name , since Lynda Landa sounds like an entry for the Eurovision song contest . |
| 24 | MIDDLESBROUGH striker Paul Wilkinson has finished his first season at Ayresome Park as leading scorer with 24 League and Cup goals . |
| 25 | Though it may be very difficult to establish what has triggered our first experience of anxiety , we know a lot more about what factors cause the stress tap to remain turned on , preventing the anxiety from ever going away spontaneously . |
| 26 | The Foundation for Independent Video and Film ( FIVF ) of the USA has published its first Directory of Film and Video Production Resources in Latin America and the Caribbean . |
| 27 | IDC 's European Unix Expertise Centre in Copenhagen , Denmark , has published its first report on the likely impact of Microsoft Corp Windows NT . |
| 28 | It is possible to argue either that the community charge has failed its first test as a device to improve the accountability of local government or that it has not really been tested at all . |
| 29 | The company plans to launch its first machine before the end of the year : it will run its Unix UXP/M implementation and can be used with Fortran . |
| 30 | To ask the Prime Minister when he plans to make his first visit to Liverpool . |