Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [vb pp] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Dec. 6 , with the US Marine force offshore awaiting orders to land , a 100-truck aid convoy with armed guards was reported to have transported the first food aid to leave the port for over a month . |
| 2 | The Navy can be said to have won the first round of the long-running carrier battle , which was to bedevil Naval-Air relations for the next decade . |
| 3 | The Middle Temple was where Elizabeth I was reputed to have attended the first documented performance of Twelfth Night , in 1602 , although there is now doubt about this . |
| 4 | Mark is believed to have become the first blind presenter to host his own radio show when he took to the airwaves at BBC Radio Cleveland yesterday . |
| 5 | Thus the F.C.C. was held to have surmounted the first hurdle of entitlement to enter the inquiry , but fell at the second because it had misconstrued the meaning of successor in title . |