Example sentences of "in the first round " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dulé 's canoe had not foundered in the first rounds of gunfire , but kept skimming on towards the Rebecca , with the remaining boats still around him , offering cover . |
| 2 | In the first rounds , judges delegate were appointed by the pope to examine the immediate question — who possessed the jurisdiction at the moment — and to make a temporary decision . |
| 3 | We are quiet in the first rounds cos we are scared of being giant-killed … but this lack of atmosphere gets to the players who rarely perform in the first rounds of the cups ? ? |
| 4 | We are quiet in the first rounds cos we are scared of being giant-killed … but this lack of atmosphere gets to the players who rarely perform in the first rounds of the cups ? ? |
| 5 | Lendl 's 6–2 7–6 second-round defeat to Black , after a first round bye , was the latest blow to the 33-year-old 's faltering career , having lost in the first rounds of the French and Australian Opens already this year . |
| 6 | Mats Wilander — dumped out in the first round |
| 7 | Zina Garrison , the beaten Wimbledon finalist last summer , lost in the first round , but not much of consequence occurred until Sanchez-Vicario toppled Mary Joe Fernandez in the quarter finals — and then came the heavy matches . |
| 8 | He was eliminated in the first round , coming fourth behind de Gaulle , Mitterrand and Jean Lecanuet . |
| 9 | WHEN Sara Gomer , Clare Wood and Julie Salmon collapsed to a 2-1 defeat to Indonesia in the first round of the Federation Cup in Melbourne last December , they were the laughing stock of the tennis world , writes our correspondent from Tokyo . |
| 10 | MATLOCK TOWN , the HFS Loans League team , are still in the FA Trophy - despite having been defeated in the first round . |
| 11 | Having done just that half way through this contest which was judged on time in the first round , she had an agonising wait to see whether anyone would catch her . |
| 12 | JO DURIE , Clare Wood and Anne Hobbs did their best to banish a nine-month-old nightmare yesterday when they defeated Indonesia 3-0 in some style in the first round of the Federation Cup here . |
| 13 | Hemel Royals .. 60 Reykjavik ..... 64 ( Reykjavik win 118-105 on agg ) KODAK HEMEL ROYALS followed Manchester Giants out of European competition last night when they lost to Reykjavik of Iceland in the first round of the Korac Cup , writes Duncan Hooper . |
| 14 | There is a minor triumph for British tennis when Jo Durie , Clare Wood and Anne Hobbs beat Indonesia 3-0 in the first round of the Federation Cup in Tokyo . |
| 15 | BILLY HARDY retained the British bantamweight title against Brian Holmes in Sunderland last night , knocking out the Scottish challenger with an explosive assault in the first round . |
| 16 | ANDRE AGASSI , the second seed , was knocked out of the Hong Kong Open in the first round yesterday by Haiti 's Ronald Agenor . |
| 17 | Unfortunately Ohmachi could not sustain the connection and the rising son went down 8 and 6 on the Burma Road to Chip Beck in the first round yesterday . |
| 18 | The 31-year-old Ulsterman , who was the leading Briton in the Open at Troon last July , had a 10-under-par 62 to lead by three strokes in the first round from the American , Davis Love III . |
| 19 | Beck , who had defeated Aki Ohmachi of Japan 8 and 6 in the first round , was heading for an even bigger defeat . |
| 20 | Natalia Zvereva was defeated in the first round for the seventh time this year when the American Marianne Werdel beat the eighth seed from the Soviet Union 6-2 , 6-3 in the Chicago tournament . |
| 21 | As he had done in the first round , he reached the green and they got their par . |
| 22 | Sir Anthony said on the BBC 's World at One : ‘ I almost certainly will challenge her in the first round if no one else comes forward . |
| 23 | Mr Gonzalez managed to win a vote of confidence in the first round only with the support of a Canary Islands deputy who is widely regarded as a parliamentary spokesman and lobbyist for the Tenerife banana planters . |
| 24 | Mr Gonzalez managed to win a vote of confidence in the first round only with the support of a Canary Islands deputy who is widely regarded as a parliamentary spokesman and lobbyist for the Tenerife banana planters . |
| 25 | If England could organise the draw to their liking they would probably play Austria , Colombia and Costa Rica in the first round . |
| 26 | After a hesitant start , the other leftwing and progressive parties who were defeated in the first round have joined Mr Da Silva 's campaign , along with the Socialist and Communist parties , which already supported him in the Popular Front coalition . |
| 27 | In Estonia and Latvia , pro-independence candidates seem to have won a majority of seats in the republics ' parliaments even in the first round of the local elections on March 18th . |
| 28 | The current Indian election was spread over three days to enable security forces to move from one area to another ; but even so the chief ministers of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar are reported to have used musclemen to capture booths in the first round of the election . |
| 29 | He organised a presidential election in the first round of which , on March 10th , he was beaten into second place by his prime minister , Nicéphore Soglo . |
| 30 | Only these two , both mares , from a field of 34 , went clear in the first round and then Raymakers , who had scored earlier in the day on Rinnetou , had to go first against the clock . |