Example sentences of "[adv] have [vb pp] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | More importantly , however , the remains overlay burnt material , while the make-up levels on Site 2 contained Antonine pottery , thus demonstrating that the building(s) were part of an overall design reshaping the town centre , which might also have included the first phase of the defences . |
| 2 | The Pioneers will by now have completed the first leg of their journey to Cyprus . |
| 3 | And we now have got the first step er sorry not , not strictly speaking , the first steps of course were economic th that we had a strategic embargo and an economic embargo er on er on the Serbs and er on , on the er the , the different regions er th the first military step however is air strikes and we 'll know er within a week I think whether in fact this step will be actually taken or whether the threat is sufficient to induce er the belligerents to come to a negotiated settlement . |
| 4 | Many people do not like working in an atmosphere of petty theft , and while they may not actually inform on their colleagues , they might well have taken the first opportunity to leave . |
| 5 | But I mean you 've , you 've actually passed up your good news by putting it so far down that the editor might well have read the first paragraph . |
| 6 | Working for the Giunti publishing house , Boskovits again has edited the first volume of The Origins of Florentine Painting by R. Offner ( L230,000 ) . |