Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] the first round [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Speaker of the national Assembly , Hussein al-Husseini , resigned after the first round of voting on Aug. 23 . |
| 2 | THE draw has been made for the first round of this year 's Harp Masters International Hockey tournament , run by Annadale Hockey club . |
| 3 | Natalia Zvereva was defeated in the first round for the seventh time this year when the American Marianne Werdel beat the eighth seed from the Soviet Union 6-2 , 6-3 in the Chicago tournament . |
| 4 | Agreement on the treaty had been reached in the first round of negotiations on bilateral relations in Warsaw on Oct. 30-31 . |
| 5 | Ballot results in 32 out of 120 constituencies were annulled after the first round of voting in legislative elections on Sept. 16 ; the second round , scheduled for Sept. 23 , was suspended after the government acknowledged that there had been irregularities at a number of voting centres . |
| 6 | The FN candidate led in the first round of voting , but was defeated in the second round by 50.6 per cent to 49.4 per cent by a centre-right candidate supported by all the mainstream parties . |
| 7 | Vargas Llosa , who had led on the first round on April 8 [ see p. 37371 ] , now won only 2,713,442 ( 33.92 per cent ) . |
| 8 | It 's cup day in cricket today with the minor counties thrown into the first round of the Nat West Trophy against the championship sides … |
| 9 | IT IS a measure of the strength of the entry for the Hi-Tec British Open Championships that the world No 28 , Brett Newton , of Australia , found himself eliminated in the first round of the qualifying competition yesterday . |
| 10 | Lessons had been learned from the first round of these activities , especially about accountability and communication between the governing body and parents . |
| 11 | Having lost in the first round to Sarah Lochrie , 7–5 , 6–4 , she then fought her way back into the tournament to beat Jasmine Choudhury 7–5 , 6–3 in the semis and Felicia D'Amelio 2–6 , 6–4 , 6–4 in the final to take her first national title . |
| 12 | Communist Party members accounted for 348 of the 368 deputies elected in the first round to the new 500-member Uzbek Supreme Soviet . |
| 13 | WAYNE FERREIRA won himself $100,000 yesterday — for being humiliatingly beaten in the first round of the Compaq Grand Slam Cup . |