Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] a first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The pair are not first-timers to the MPA competition , having won a first prize in the portrait section last year . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Having attained a First Class degree in History in 1935 , he then determined upon a doctorate , which he completed in 1938 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | weakness : midfield/up front — Nilsen is a defender and Ingebrigtsen is not playing first team futba for City — he has been rented out to norwegian club rosenborg this summer and is now back in city , trying to get a first team place . |
| 7 | Other organizations : UN Economic Commission for Africa ( ECA ) , executive secretary Adebayo Adedeji ; African Development Bank , president Babacar N'Diaye ; Francophone states including France [ for June 1990 summit in La Baule see p. 37524 ] ; Franc zone — members of the Union monétaire ouest-africaine use the franc of the Communauté financière africaine ( CFA franc ) whose central issuing bank is the Banque centrale des états de l'Afrique de l'ouest ( in Dakar , Senegal ) , while central African countries in the franc zone use the franc of the Co-opération financière en Afrique centrale , ( also known as the CFA franc ) with the same parity of 50 to the French franc , but whose central issuing bank is the Banque des états de l'Afrique central ( in Yaoundé , Cameroon ) ; Lusophone states — Portugal , Angola , Cape Verde , Guinea-Bissau , Mozambique , Sao Tomé and Príncipe — whose Foreign Ministers met on Nov. 24 , agreeing to hold a first summit in 1991 . |