Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chance of the monkey happening to get the first letter — M — right is therefore 1 in 27 . |
| 2 | The seminars , which will be held in Dundee and Glasgow , will focus on the second phase of general SVQs , though they may also include workshops for centres wanting to pilot the first batch of awards for the first time . |
| 3 | Miss Boothroyd is seeking to become the first woman speaker . |
| 4 | Managers were always going to hit the first target once they realised that a one in three rota without prospective cover fitted the limit of 83 hours a week exactly . |
| 5 | I SUPPOSE a lot of people are waiting to greet the first cuckoo of spring , but I was looking forward to the first hedgehog of spring . |
| 6 | We , at any rate , are not going to fire the first shot . |
| 7 | I think that one 's saying that in order to resolve one problem , their may be unforeseen and , one hopes temporary , minor problems which emerge in consequence of attempting to resolve the first problem . |
| 8 | The Middlesbrough fans were returning from clinching promotion at Wolverhampton and the York-based Leeds Utd supporters were celebrating winning the First Division championship . |
| 9 | She was damned if she was going to make the first move . |
| 10 | Then , both of them a little awkward , a little shy , not liking to make the first move , the Shotterys had walked together down the path , away from the little group at the church porch . |
| 11 | Bernard had needed little persuading to buy the first company aeroplane , a twin-engined Piper Navajo for £95,000 , which carried six passengers and two pilots . |
| 12 | NORWEGIAN explorer Erling Kagge , 29 , aiming to become the first person to walk alone to the South Pole , left Oslo yesterday after piling on 18lbs of fat with huge meals to give him energy resources for his two months on the ice trekking 814 miles across the Antarctica . |
| 13 | Former Olympic 10,000 metres silver medallist Mike McLeod will be aiming to become the first veteran to win tonight 's Golden Wonder Blaydon Race . |
| 14 | Late roses tumbled over stone walls , Michaelmas daisies and chrysanthemums provided bright patches of colour , and the trees that surrounded the village were beginning to show the first hint of the glowing autumn colours still to come . |
| 15 | The story has it that young de Malleray , a second-lieutenant in the same regiment , having heard the first news but not the sequel , was himself on the way up to the line that evening , and encountered his father 's Colonel . |
| 16 | Approaching Lothern the first thing a mariner sees is the Glittering Tower , a great lighthouse filled with thousands of lamps , situated on a rocky isle in the mouth of the treacherous waters of the Straits of Lothern . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 19 | The country outfit with big ideas , having enjoyed a first season on their £400,000 synthetic pitch at Belfast Road , celebrate next Saturday with a star-studded game between Ireland and an internationally-strengthened home team . |
| 20 | On the entertainments side er , last year of course we had that one-off benefit with not having to absorb the first quarter 's loss and this year the er first quarter was pretty disastrous because we had an er er an er amalgamation of , of A the Gulf War B the recession and in London I R A bombing and that really stopped tourists coming to London from overseas and from the rest of the U K. But I 'm pleased to say that er we , we 're coming back very strongly and for instance in July at virtually all of our centres attendances were either up to last year very nearl very nearly up to last year or ahead of last year and er at Chessington our revenue was thirteen and a half percent up on last year which I think justifies our investment there . |
| 21 | The pair are not first-timers to the MPA competition , having won a first prize in the portrait section last year . |
| 22 | Having won the first trick with Ace of Hearts , the best approach seems to be to play on Spades . |
| 23 | But Morland having won the first round is confident of surviving … |
| 24 | But having collected the first item on Alex Ferguson 's spring shopping list they hope it will prove to be the lever to rid themselves of a 25-year burden . |
| 25 | Whether you are starting to decorate a first home , have just moved into a new place or are redecorating an existing room , the problem is often much the same : not so much how to arrange things as how to fill up big blank walls and table or shelf surfaces when you do n't seem to have very much to use and certainly very little to spend . |
| 26 | People just jump straight in , do the first bit , erm , having done the first bit , they then think about how they 're gon na fit in the next bit , and you end up with a rambling mess that er , does n't fit together , does n't work together too well . |
| 27 | Having attained a First Class degree in History in 1935 , he then determined upon a doctorate , which he completed in 1938 . |
| 28 | Freud refers back to Totem and Taboo , and mentions the band of brothers who gained from co-operation among themselves , having left the first family groups , and achieved what each could not do alone , that is , the overpowering of the father . |
| 29 | Many of them were feeling distinctly insecure at having taken the first step out of the closet and they kept the escape route in sight at all times . |
| 30 | He entered the School in I893 and on leaving in 1896 — having obtained a first class in the London Matriculation the previous December — was awarded the John Benjamin Smith Exhibition to pursue his studies at Manchester . |