Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | V Band Corp has turned in first quarter net losses of $442,000 up from losses of $281,000 last time , on turnover that dropped by 13.5% to $5.3m . |
| 2 | AllTel Corp has turned in first quarter net profit up 27.3% at $63.2m , on turnover up 8.1% to $546.7m . |
| 3 | Exabyte Corp has turned in first quarter net profit down 48.9% at $6m , on turnover up 0.1% to $76.2m . |
| 4 | Mentor Graphics Corp has turned in first quarter net losses of $4.3m against profits of $1.2m last time , on turnover that fell by 17.5% to $82.6m . |
| 5 | Easel Corp has turned in first quarter net losses of $489,606 against profits of $769,975 last time , on turnover that fell by 26.4% to $6.7m . |
| 6 | Weitek Corp has turned in first quarter net losses of $1.4m down from $2.1m losses last time , on turnover that was flat at $7m . |
| 7 | Martin Marietta Corp has turned in first quarter net losses of $335.6m , after charges of $412m from the cumulative effect of an accounting change this time , against profits of $74.6m last time , on turnover that fell by 14.8% to $1,168.6m . |
| 8 | Bytex Corp has turned in first quarter net losses of $1.2m against profits of $145,000 last time , on turnover down 9.6% at $9.8m . |
| 9 | Telebit Corp has turned in first quarter net losses of $888,000 up from losses of $782,000 last time , on turnover that fell by 1.6% to $12.1m . |
| 10 | Scientists at British Biotechnology in Oxford are pinning their hopes on this second stage of trials of P24 VLP ; the Aids drug has come through first stage trials in London aimed at finding out whether it has any adverse effects . |
| 11 | This was immediately confirmed by a sound similar to that which my own shoulders had made on first entering the narrow space . |
| 12 | ‘ I thought that they were extinct , ’ Zach had said on first seeing her riding it . |
| 13 | The girl had struggled at first , but Bernice had reassured her : They 'll bring me to you in just a minute , she 'd said . |
| 14 | Although his manner appeared reserved on first meeting , he could be a genial , friendly , and charming companion . |
| 15 | Engineers , it was often said , only carried out ideas that other people had thought of first . |
| 16 | Berowne had spoken at first spasmodically , then easily , and finally intimately . |
| 17 | The earl had got in first on this wonderful anchorage , and the advantage remained with his town . |
| 18 | The reason that Schrödinger 's and Heisenberg 's versions of quantum mechanics had seemed at first sight different from each other ( see p. 14 ) was that they had chosen to use contrasting extreme possibilities . |
| 19 | A friend indicated that the Army had seemed at first to understand when the WRAC driver said she feared other Paratroopers would victimise her for ‘ squealing ’ on their pals . |
| 20 | Downing Street had originally put in a request for the Bridal Suite , only to discover that Jeffrey Archer had got in first . |
| 21 | Thomas had thought at first that it was a shadow . |
| 22 | Maslyukov had served as First Deputy Premier and chair of Gosplan , and briefly as acting Prime Minister after Nikolai Ryzhkov was incapacitated by a heart attack in late December . |
| 23 | Both Peking and East Berlin have witnessed at first hand just how dangerous the forces unleashed by Mikhail Gorbachev can be . |