Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] the first two " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is sufficient for our purposes to elaborate upon the first two categories . |
| 2 | The gunners had been ordered to aim at the first two vessels , and at a bare two hundred yards ' range they could scarcely miss . |
| 3 | Measures to cope with the first two by traditional means worsened the third . |
| 4 | Davis , who won the world title for the sixth time in May , decided not to compete in the first two ranking events in Hong Hong and Bangkok . |
| 5 | The following year Calero looked like getting in the Ryder Cup side , but he had to finish in the first two at York ( Benson and Hedges International ) . |
| 6 | Senate set up a working party under Professor Furmston , Council asked consultants Coopers & Lybrand Deloitte to look at the matter , convocation set up an ad hoc working group to respond to the first two reports , and the Vice-Chancellor produced a report for Council which drew together the common threads in all three . |
| 7 | But Smith admitted : ‘ We 've got three points out of four , and that 's what we set out to achieve from the first two games . |
| 8 | Again , it is limited but it shows that an audit failure is three times as likely to occur in the first two years after a change in auditor as in subsequent years . |
| 9 | There is the objection , however , whatever else is to be said , that the third statement fails to follow from the first two only because of an ambiguity — and more precisely because the consequent of the first conditional is in fact not identical with the antecedent of the second . |