Example sentences of "[vb pp] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Guggenheim Museum reopens on 28 June , Thomas Krens , its director , will have realised the first stage in his ambitious plan of expansion , seeking to establish new stations in North Adams , Massachusetts , Bilbao ( see The Art Newspaper No.17 , April 1992 , p.5 ) and Salzburg , and to enlarge The Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice . |
| 2 | For next the stewards decided that only those drivers who had completed the first lap would be allowed to re-start . |
| 3 | Rob has recently completed the first leg of the Round the World Yacht Race . |
| 4 | The Pioneers will by now have completed the first leg of their journey to Cyprus . |
| 5 | Firstly , the proportion of teachers who , having successfully completed the first year , stay on into the second in order to obtain the Certificate in Education ( FE ) is proving to be extremely high : for example , of the 1,128 candidates for the first year courses being offered in 1979–80 , no fewer than 1,024 moved into their second year in 1980–1 . |
| 6 | Having successfully completed the first year of the new Teachers ' Training Course the students have gone away to grapple with their holiday assignments . |
| 7 | There was a request to Council to investigate the position of those who had completed the first module but were not registered and whether they should be allowed to attend the Keele Conference . |
| 8 | To get stuck into Part Two you do n't have to have completed the first instalment , but you DO need to have the password . |
| 9 | BY the time you read this article we shall have completed the first training workshop on T.Q.M. designed for directors and a number of senior managers . |
| 10 | Woodbury , New York-based Cablevision Systems Corp says it has completed the first stage of its electronic superhighway to homes , businesses and institutions in the New York metropolitan area : the $300m project , scheduled for completion in 1995 , involves installation of over 3,000 miles of fibre network . |
| 11 | These provide a means for lexicographers to review and amend dictionary material which has completed the first stage of processing , as well as a facility for the transfer of portions of the dictionary material to a typesetting and composition operator . |
| 12 | He died within a year of taking up his new office , but by then he had successfully completed the first stage of the reduction of Wales which , according to his will , he expected to complete within his three-year term of office . |
| 13 | , personnel secretary at Ipswich , has successfully completed the first stage of a three year course in personnel management at the Suffolk College . |
| 14 | However , technical hitches plagued the first night . |
| 15 | Corporate Wedgwood has also received the first order for its new Caspian pattern for Amberley Castle , Arundel — the only 900-year-old castle in the world which is used as an hotel . |
| 16 | On 24 July he had criticized the first version of the ecumenical decree , Ut Omnes Unum Sint : So although it is no doubt true to say that Pope John approved in general of the prepared texts , he was not deeply attached to them and was prepared to see them dropped without any deep sense of personal loss . |
| 17 | The Sinfonia continues its policy of including a Scottish work in each of its concerts , having given the first performance the previous evening in Lanark of Nigel Don 's Suite for Cello and Strings . |
| 18 | The church had important links with the butchers of Prague and they were given the first chapel on the left at the W end in honour of their defence of Prague , once in 1611 against the troops from Passau , and again in 1648 , against the Swedes . |
| 19 | Or , finally , two events are cause and effect if the probability of the second event , given the first event and certain accompanying conditions , is greater than the probability of the second event , given those conditions but not the first event . |
| 20 | It also seemed a reasonable timescale , given the first site meeting on 5th March , for the work to take place in June , more than 3 months away . |
| 21 | With a ground capacity of 6,000 , the intention is to make it an all-ticket match , with members being given the first option . |
| 22 | As journalists were given the first glimpse inside the mall on Wednesday , managers from developer Burton Property Trust geared up for a major marketing exercise . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Shellac records were simply too fragile to be posted ; so the special circumstances of war justified the first vinyl records . |
| 25 | The second-half power cut hardly mattered because Oldham , embarrassingly inept as three goals punctuated the first half , were not much better when they were allowed to play . |
| 26 | There was little chance of his being hit , but he slipped deliberately , pitching forward , striking the ground with his shoulder and rolling fast for the ravine where he 'd hidden the first gun . |
| 27 | Blisters which had formed the first time now burst , weeping clear fluid onto the burner which hissed like an angry snake . |
| 28 | Having formed the first phrase and its complement as the first sentence of our theme , we must turn to the problem of what to do in the second sentence . |
| 29 | After years of anticipation , the Taiwanese-backed NuTek USA Corp in Cupertino , California has finally come down to the wire with its Macintosh-compatible technology : the company claims that it has developed the first machine that emulates the Macintosh without requiring installation of Apple Computer Inc 's proprietary ROMs . |
| 30 | La Compania Aquas de Sabadell SA , Sabadell , Barcelona , and Telecom Valles SA , Terassa , Barcelona , claim to have developed the first system in Europe for reading water meters over the telephone . |