Example sentences of "[to-vb] their first [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Leaders from 52 member countries of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) assembled in Helsinki , Finland , on July 9-10 to attend their first follow-up summit meeting since signing the Paris accord in November 1990 [ see pp. 37838-39 ] . |
| 2 | SOME 4,000 depositors who lost £42m in one of Britain 's biggest bank crashes are to receive their first interim payment following an £11.7m judgment against fugitive city financier Jim Raper in the Manx Chancery Court yesterday . |
| 3 | Page 30 Manx payouts : Some 4,000 depositors who lost £42m in one of Britain 's biggest bank crashes are to receive their first interim payment following an £11.7m judgment against City financier Jim Raper in the Manx Chancery Court yesterday . |
| 4 | But with the Paris Angels due to play their first Irish show soon , is he not worried that ‘ Scope 's sleeve ( depicting a cross ) might cause offence ? |
| 5 | But with the Paris Angels due to play their first Irish show soon , is he not worried that ‘ Scope 's sleeve ( depicting a cross ) might cause offence ? |
| 6 | A black-owned film studio is still a distant dream , and the Hollywood studios have yet to experience their first black-directed box-office failure , which will test their willingness to entrust big budgets to black directors . |
| 7 | Newly crowned league champions Dublin are 3/1 to win their first senior All Ireland in 10 years , with Cork 9/2 , Kerry 9/2 , Donegal 7/1 , Meath 9/1 , Derry 10/1 , Down 10/1 , Kildare 10/1 and Mayo 12/1 . |
| 8 | Liverpool Sefton beat Bowdon 2-1 at Wyncote to record their first Premier League win , but they lost 2-0 to Ben Rhydding in the HA Cup Tie . |
| 9 | Liverpool Sefton beat Bowdon by 2-1 at Wyncote to record their first Premier League win , but they lost 2-0 to Ben Rhydding in the HA Cup . |
| 10 | Darlington have a chance to record their first double following their 1–0 win at Valley Parade last month . |
| 11 | THE Russians are to build their first Western-style theme park — and the inspiration behind it is British cartoon dog Digswell . |
| 12 | By April 1988 , on the second anniversary of the Chernobyl eruption , fear had made the previously obedient people of Kiev brave enough to hold their first post-glasnost street demonstration . |
| 13 | Even here in Princeton ( only about 7,500 students ) the soccer team managed to draw a couple of thousand people to watch their first round end of season game . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , Relcom users are to get their first international on-line service . |
| 15 | The young can not learn how to make their first long journey by following their parents as swans do , for no adult eels travel east across the Atlantic from the Sargasso . |
| 16 | Havel 's first journey abroad as President , to East and West Germany on Jan. 2 , represented a further break with tradition , as it had become customary for leaders of Soviet bloc countries to make their first foreign visit to Moscow . |
| 17 | Palace hope to clinch their first Premier League home win against the only side Steve Coppell 's men have failed to beat since returning to the top flight in 1989 . |