Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ebmeier et al ( 1988 ) have given the first account of the setting up and running of a Timbury type unit serving a local area in Inverurie . |
| 2 | We have completed the first four parts in one day with groups of experienced trainees , though this makes for a very hard and long day . |
| 3 | It is extraordinary that that has been resisted even before we have received the first results . |
| 4 | Companies as diverse as IBM and Amstrad have reported the first full-year losses in their histories . |
| 5 | Previous albums have included the first eight now on Mercury , the final couple on Silvertone . |
| 6 | Recent accessions have included the first American edition of Joseph Black 's Lectures on the elements of Chemistry , ( Philadelphia : 1807 ) ; a Paris edition of John Barclay 's Argenis printed in 1621 , and an item believed to have been printed in Edinburgh about 1800 entitled ‘ A Pleasant Humourous and satyrical poem ’ , part one of which calls on young women to ‘ embrace the pure and holy state of matrimony ’ : part two ‘ contains excellent directions in the choice of a husband … ’ |
| 7 | Altogether , I have enjoyed the first day more than I anticipated . |
| 8 | The first thirteen babies to claim them have won the first of their competitions . |
| 9 | The families of British soldiers killed by the American airforce in the Gulf War have won the first stage of their bid to find out what really happened . |
| 10 | Maybe they 'll elope to Gretna Green if they ca n't find a vacant Martello tower , then it will leave me with more time for my Roman friend and dear Boudicca not to mention Dorothy Wordsworth 's Journals of which I have perused the first paragraph six times yet can not seem to recall it to mind . |
| 11 | So far we have considered the first three elements . |
| 12 | The idea that John was trying out his ideas in private first , getting them carefully developed before he actually faced his cast , is confirmed by another letter to Hanns in which he wrote , ‘ I have written the first record , and am starting rehearsals for S. T . |
| 13 | I have done the first … |
| 14 | In a flurry of seminars both in the US and in Europe members of the team have presented the first results from the experiment . |
| 15 | Of these two approaches I have adopted the first , formally at least , since my first chapter is concerned with scepticism , and there are constant if sporadic references to one form of sceptical argument throughout the book . |
| 16 | ‘ The army will have them all in barracks before we have saved the first ten men ! ’ |
| 17 | For , once we have made the first approach to the Landshut Virgin and acquired a first set of impressions , the changeableness of the figure begins to work on us further , now less in the dimension of greater or lesser distance and more in the angle of view . |
| 18 | DESPITE consistently pool weather and a frightening episode in which they were avalanched in their tents , two members of a british expedition have made the first ascent of the South Face of Thalay Sagar , one of the most attempted and failed on mountains in the Indian Charwal Hamalayas . |
| 19 | ARSENAL have made the first move towards landing Everton 's Martin Keown in a £2.5 million deal . |
| 20 | Dave Walsh and Roger Mear have made the first British ascent of mighty Nanga Parbat , 8,165 metres . |
| 21 | Latest news from the expedition to climb Ultar , Pakistan 's highest unclimbed summit at nearly 7,300 metres , is that while no result has emerged from the tussle with the main objective , Mick Fowler and Craig Jones have made the first British ascents of Bublimiting ( 5,750 metres ) and Hunza Peak ( 6,250 metres ) . |
| 22 | Aston Villa , Everton , Sheffield Wednesday , Sheffield United , West Ham and Millwall have made the first moves to look at one of the largest untapped areas of players in world football . |
| 23 | Once you have made the first step towards finding out more about archaeology , it is likely that you will never turn back . |
| 24 | SENIOR office-bearers in one of the Scottish National Party 's Lanarkshire branches have made the first formal call for the party leader , Alex Salmond , to resign . |
| 25 | And now Cambridge United , who recently sacked controversial manager John Beck , have made the first move . |
| 26 | Researchers at Hitachi Europe Ltd 's Dublin Laboratory and the physics department at Trinity College have co-developed the first system to combine optoelectronic semiconductor arrays with complex neural networks . |
| 27 | Researchers at Hitachi Europe Ltd 's Dublin Laboratory and the physics department at Trinity College have co-developed the first system to combine optoelectronic semiconductor arrays with complex neural networks . |
| 28 | For the journey we have selected the first class MS Caledonian Star , a perfect ship for such a journey , carrying a maximum of 150 passengers in absolute comfort — all cabins are outside with private facilities , one sitting restaurant , lounges and bars , lecture theatre and large sun decks with a swimming pool . |
| 29 | The first card you turn over is the matching ace , so it seems that you have had the first strike of luck for you can clearly get the first pair . |
| 30 | In a letter of 17 August 1921 to his wife he writes that ‘ I have had the first estimates for dolls ' house furniture : 13 State frames — £50 , and have sent it to Mrs Marshall Field . |