Example sentences of "[adj] have [vb pp] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brian Little has become the first man to win the Vauxhall Conference manager of the month award , worth £250 , for the second time in succession , for Darlington 's unbeaten run throughout October . |
| 2 | Jones has become increasingly loathe to change his side to accommodate individual clubs ' fortunes , and that has brought a first county call-up for young Hawarden Park batsman Darrell Bowden . |
| 3 | The academic year 1992/3 has seen the first year of fully modularised courses at Napier . |
| 4 | A more significant change has been the separation of sales of ITV1 and Channel 4 : Channel 4 has been responsible for its own sales from January 1993 , and this has introduced the first genuinely competitive element into national commercial TV . |
| 5 | The programme of re-organisation and expenditure reductions which followed the review of the Society 's activities during the Autumn of 1991 has yielded the first full year of financial benefits during 1992 and these are reflected in the increased surplus . |
| 6 | ‘ I can play better , but I was reasonably happy with my game and I 'm delighted to have got the first tie under my belt , ’ said McCann . |
| 7 | In 1184 , fourteen years before Innocent 's accession , Lucius III had issued the first curial pronouncement on heresy in the decree " Ad abolendam heresam " . |
| 8 | Must Software International has announced the first versions of its 4GL Nomad software for Unix starting with IBM Corp platforms . |
| 9 | A GIRL aged 11 has become the first child in Britain to be given a legal divorce from her mother . |
| 10 | Zeos International Ltd has reported a first quarter net loss of $3.3m , up from a loss last time of $1.9m , which was struck after a tax credit of $1.4m , on turnover that rose 2.2% at $60.4m . |
| 11 | The eight nations that circle the Arctic have taken a first step towards protecting the fragile environment of the far north from increased pollution , most of which originates outside the region . |
| 12 | United have become the first team in the League to break with tradition by getting rid of fixed term contracts for their coaching staff . |
| 13 | In the mayoral elections in Rio de Janeiro , César Maia of the PMDB defeated Benedia da Silva of the PT , who in 1987 had become the first black woman member of the Congress . |
| 14 | The long credit that the Dutch had given the first planters to get them started in Barbados in the 1640s came to an end with the Dutch war of the 1650s , which made it harder for English planters to finance development when they wanted to grow sugar in Jamaica . |
| 15 | Woodhouse was a fellow of Caius , and in 1803 had published the first book in England employing the continental notation , Principles of Analytical Calculation . |
| 16 | SynOptics Communications Inc has unveiled the first products based on its six-chip Asynchronous Transfer Moder chip set announced last October ( CI No 2,035 ) : the per-port price of the LattisCell switches ranges from under £1,500 to £2,000 , a half to a third of its competitors ' prices , says the company ; the Santa Clara company also has a technology partnership agreement with Sun Microsystems Inc to develop a 155Mbps asynchronous transfer mode SBus adaptor board that will be made and sold by SynOptics , enabling the LattisCell switches to be directly connected to Sparc systems running the Solaris Unix . |
| 17 | NEC Electronics Inc has become the first company to announce samples — for next month — of 64M-bit memory chips with 3.3V parts in 0.35 micron CMOS . |
| 18 | Pacific Telesis Group Inc 's San Francisco-based Pacific Bell Inc has announced the first customers for its new Advanced Broadcast Video Service . |
| 19 | General Automation Inc has reported a first quarter net loss of $290,000 down from a loss last time of $594,000 , after tax credits of $225,000 this time , $38,000 last , on turnover that rose 0.4% at $11.1m . |
| 20 | Televideo Systems Inc has reported a first quarter net loss of $49,000 after an investment gain of $853,000 from an affiliate , against a profit last time of $50,000 , on turnover down 25.7% at $4.0m . |
| 21 | Data Translation Inc has reported a first quarter net loss of $983,000 , up from a loss last time of $603,000 , on turnover that rose 10.9% at $8.6m . |
| 22 | Volt Information Sciences Inc has reported a first quarter net loss of $1.8m , struck after $959,000 in gains from the cumulative effect of an accounting change , down from losses of $3.9m last time , on turnover that rose 10% to $124.6m . |
| 23 | VLSI Technology Inc has reported a first quarter net loss of $2.1m against a profit last time of $225,000 on turnover that rose 11.9% to $117.3m . |
| 24 | Conner Peripherals Inc has reported a first quarter net loss of $22.5m against a profit last time of $24.6m on turnover that rose 26.5% at $558.3m . |
| 25 | Control Data Systems Inc has reported a first quarter net profit of $1.3m against a loss last time of $6.7m on turnover that fell 13.0% at $102.7m . |
| 26 | IPL Systems Inc has reported a first quarter net loss of $1.4m after a $121,000 gain for the effect of an accounting change , against a profit last time of $1.4m , on turnover that crashed 47.6% at $5.9m . |
| 27 | Radius Inc has reported a first quarter net loss of $5.3m , against a $2.3m profit last time on sales that crashed 28.1% to $30.8m . |
| 28 | Sequoia Systems Inc has reported a first quarter net loss of $3.0m after a charge of $3.3m for the preliminary settlement of the class action suit against it on turnover that slumped 37.9% at $9.6m . |
| 29 | Gateway Communications Inc has reported a first quarter net loss of $474,000 after a $128,000 restructuring charge , against a profit last time of $408,000 on turnover that slumped 50.5% at $3.3m . |
| 30 | IntelliCorp Inc has reported a first quarter net loss of $705,000 , down from a loss last time of $1.3m on turnover that rose 8.1% at $2.8m . |