Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [art] first [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Significantly , while Philips have been hurrying to launch the first full size CD-I players , Sony — notionally , Philips ' CD-I partners — have made no announcements about CD-I plans other than to show the palmtop device and to speak obliquely about other announcements to follow . |
| 2 | She was damned if she was going to make the first conciliatory move ; it would blunt the point of all she had done in Waterford . |
| 3 | In October 1990 a network of Baptist Church planters was officially formed gathering around a hundred ministers and aiming to hold a first residential conference in 1991 . |
| 4 | The bank is planning a European and American roadshow on April 28 and is negotiating to become the first Portuguese company with a full overseas listing on one of the American stock exchanges . |
| 5 | Members of the Department of Social Anthropology and the Audio-Visual Aids Unit Cambridge are collaborating to make the first experimental videodisc at Cambridge University . |
| 6 | Glasgow is planning to become the first Scottish city to ban the consumption of alcohol in the street . |