Example sentences of "[noun sg] has [verb] [art] first [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 | 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 . |
| 11 | EDINBURGH District Council 's Construction Skills Training programme has won the first UK award for the use of new technology in training . |
| 12 | In some companies reading e-mail has become the first task of the morning . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ] . |
| 16 | LOTHIAN REGIONAL Council has taken the first step towards a total ban on smoking from 1 January next year . |
| 17 | A county council has taken the first step towards a total ban on all fox hunting on council land . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In addition to the third instalment on the Cuyp , the national gallery has made the first instalment on a Cranage painting . |
| 20 | A THEME park on the former Windsor Safari Park site has cleared the first planning hurdle . |
| 21 | A pleasure steamer has made the first day trip down the Severn to the Devon coast for almost a century . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The Insured Person has to bear the first £25 of each and every claim . |
| 26 | The Insured Person has to bear the first £25 of each and every claim . |
| 27 | The Insured Person has to bear the first £25 of each and every claim . |
| 28 | ‘ unless … ( a ) the court has deprived the first defendant ( as mortgagee ) of any relevant costs ; or ( b ) the court has ordered taxation of any relevant costs on some other basis save where there is no inconsistency between such an order and the preservation of the first defendant 's contractual right to payment of such costs ( for example , where such an order has been , or is hereafter , made against the mortgagors or any of them and other persons joined as co-plaintiffs or co-defendants with the mortgagors or any of them ) . |
| 29 | In their notice of appeal the plaintiffs ask for that order to be set aside and , in its place , for an order declaring that they are entitled to object to items in the accounts , whether litigation costs or non-litigation costs , on the ground that the items are unreasonable in amount , and for an order declaring that the first defendant is not entitled to have its litigation costs taxed on an indemnity basis if and to the extent that the court has deprived the first defendant , as mortgagee , of any costs nor in respect of litigation costs already the subject of an order for taxation on some other basis . |
| 30 | It seeks , in place of the order made by the judge , an order declaring that the plaintiffs are not entitled to object to any items in the accounts , whether in respect of litigation costs or non-litigation costs , on the ground that the costs are unreasonable in amount unless the court has deprived the first defendant , as mortgagee , of the relevant costs . |