Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun sg] to the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wigan and Huddersfield should be officially crowned champions of the First and Third divisions respectively , with Leigh and Sheffield effectively clinching promotion to the First . |
| 2 | The association with a traditional barn incorporating porches has been skilfully exploited in order to broaden the width of the building at its centre so that an enclosed entrance porch and a generous ‘ dog-leg ’ staircase , giving access to the first floor , could be included on one side , while the equivalent projection on the west side houses an oriel window serving the dining-room which gives a commanding view over the Cherwell Valley . |
| 3 | Burnden Park boss Bruce Rioch is keen to strengthen his squad after winning promotion to the First Division , and Manchester United 's Welsh international figures highly on his wanted list . |
| 4 | Canadian firm Consensys Computer Inc , Markham , Ontario since 1985 , a vendor of intelligent input/output cards , is laying claim to the first shipments of USL Unix SVR4.2 Destiny shrink-wrapped binary operating systems for Intel iAPX-86 architectures . |
| 5 | On May 17th a partial but telling answer to the first of these questions emerged when US West , one of America 's huge regional Bell telephone companies , said it would pay $1.5 billion for a 25% stake in Time Warner Entertainment ( TWE ) , the cable-TV and film subsidiary of the world 's biggest media conglomerate , whose stars include Mel Gibson ( pictured above ) . |
| 6 | Attributing value to the first team squad |