Example sentences of "[noun] has [verb] [art] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Intergraph Corp has reported a first quarter net loss of $7.7m after a gain of $2.5m on a change in the way tax is accounted for and a pre-tax restructuring charge of $2.6m , against a profit last time of $2.9m , on turnover that rose 1.8% at $282.1m . |
| 2 | Intergraph Corp has reported a first quarter net loss of $7.7m after a gain of $2.5m on a change in the way tax is accounted for and a pre-tax restructuring charge of $2.6m , against a profit last time of $2.9m , on turnover that rose 1.8% at $282.1m . |
| 3 | Kendall Square Research Corp has reported a first quarter net profit of $250,000 against a loss last time of $4.5m , on turnover of $11.4m against just $1.9m last time ; net earnings per share were $0.02 . |
| 4 | Sprint Corp has reported a first quarter net loss of $23.6m , struck after a $12.3m loss from discontinued operations , against a profit last time of $106.3m , on turnover that rose 8.7% at $2,728m . |
| 5 | Ceridian Corp has reported a first quarter net profit of $12.9m , compared with a loss last time of $34.1m , which included a loss from discontinued operations of $13.2m and a $41.8m charge from an accounting change , on turnover that increased 8.8% at $224.4m ; net earnings per share were $30 . |
| 6 | Amdahl Corp has reported a first quarter net loss of $239.7m , struck after a $243m restructuring charge for lay-offs , against a profit last time of $4.4m , on turnover that slumped 23.5% at $380.7m . |
| 7 | Computervision Corp has reported a first quarter net loss of $10.4m , down from a pro forma loss last time of $26.1m , on turnover down 19.3% at $220.9m . |
| 8 | Cray Computer Corp has reported a first quarter net loss of $11.5m , down from a loss last time of $13.9m , on turnover that was unchanged at $83,000 . |
| 9 | A 70-year old woodland has become the first plantation forest to be declared a Site of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSI ) by English Nature . |
| 10 | SAAB has produced the first pictures of its first new car for quite some time , the new-look 900 . |
| 11 | AT&T Co has reported a first quarter net loss of $5,641m after a $7,020m charge for the accounting change on post-retirement benefits , and a gain of $383 for a tax accounting change , against a profit last time of $883m on turnover up 2.2% at $15,719m . |
| 12 | The Northern General Hospital National Health Service Trust in Sheffield has become the first hospital in the UK to install a Fibre Distributed Data Interface network : supplied by Cray Communications Ltd , the network is intended to run between eight hospital departments . |
| 13 | CANCER drug campaigner Janet Murray has had the first tablets which may give her a chance of a normal life . |
| 14 | Each of these three groups has made a first report at the time this Chapter was written . |
| 15 | Paris-based Thomson-CSF SA 's Must Software International SA has announced the first versions of its Nomad applications generator for Unix , starting with IBM Corp systems . |
| 16 | EDINBURGH District Council 's Construction Skills Training programme has won the first UK award for the use of new technology in training . |
| 17 | In some companies reading e-mail has become the first task of the morning . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , under-pressure manager Malcolm Crosby has warned the First Division not to write his team out of the promotion picture . |
| 19 | The J. Paul Getty Museum has produced the first volume in a new series of fine quality facsimile editions of volumes from its manuscript collection . |
| 20 | In today 's issue of Nature , a team of scientists at the University of Bath and the Natural History Museum has taken the first step to explain why their shapes can be as diverse and striking as those of snowflakes . |
| 21 | Edinburgh District Council has become the first UK city authority to promote a car-pooling scheme , following the launch of a commercial venture earlier this year [ see ED 55 ] . |
| 22 | LOTHIAN REGIONAL Council has taken the first step towards a total ban on smoking from 1 January next year . |
| 23 | A county council has taken the first step towards a total ban on all fox hunting on council land . |
| 24 | The self-evident gap between fantasy and reality — which is that no government , anywhere , of any political complexion has got the first clue about how to organise society in the post-Cold War world — has led to an aimless disgruntlement , a poisonous mixture of envy and ennui . |
| 25 | In addition to the third instalment on the Cuyp , the national gallery has made the first instalment on a Cranage painting . |
| 26 | A THEME park on the former Windsor Safari Park site has cleared the first planning hurdle . |
| 27 | A pleasure steamer has made the first day trip down the Severn to the Devon coast for almost a century . |
| 28 | Barenboim has identified the First Symphony of the 54-year-old Corigliano as a work of great courage , and it was equally brave of him to take it on tour . |
| 29 | The rock star Midge Ure has become the first person to give a concert at the Oxford Union . |
| 30 | The Insured Person has to bear the first £25 of each and every claim , except in respect of claims for deposits only where the Insured Person has to bear the first £10 of each and every claim . |