Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [art] first [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed IBM was ready with a fulsome endorsement of OSI , pointing out that it was already developing OSI software in both Europe and California ; OSI research was already under way at IBM 's European Networking Center at Heidelberg , and various IBM products already supported the first five of OSI 's seven layers . |
| 2 | A great number of crofters had gathered to discuss the partitioning of the good land of Green Hill but the Duke 's factor and the police arbitrarily apprehended the first eight to hand . |
| 3 | David Hunt yesterday welcomed the first 42 projects in a package of aid worth a total of £21.8m . |
| 4 | Rodney Martin , who had 12 stitches inserted in his scalp after hitting his head on a street sign , yesterday lost the first two games before recovering to beat the Finnish No. 3 Marko Pulli . |
| 5 | Under cover of the racket he was making , and the laughter of his audience , Bernice quickly removed the first four bolts . |
| 6 | He set off for Ayr yesterday with five more under his belt and promptly won the first three races , two in photos . |
| 7 | Problems with a flaked bone in his foot , a broken toe and then hamstring and rib injuries meant that McLeish played only seven times for Aberdeen last season and also missed the first 11 matches of this one . |
| 8 | In the high downland north-west of Chichester , the four neighbouring villages of Up Marden , North Marden , East Marden and West Marden effectively lost the first two communities , whose small thirteenth-century churches now stand magnificently isolated . |
| 9 | Drake , with Smith now providing court-side inspiration , then took the first five games in the third set , and ultimately won the all important rubber and championship by a 6–3 1–6 6–1 margin . |
| 10 | To make it worse , I think Paul had gone three shots ahead , at eight-under as he again played the first nine well . |
| 11 | Some day a Western team will be able to get sufficient funds to train as intensively as the Poles , who yet again took the first three places and the team prize . |
| 12 | This construct therefore lacked the first three hypersensitive sites ( HS1 , HS2 and HS3 ) but contained all the downstream HS sites . |
| 13 | Those who expected the election to lead to a radical change in domestic policy certainly found the first two years of the Kennedy era disappointing . |