Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The circumstances of a particular case may oblige the partners as a matter of good faith to proceed first by way of warning as to future conduct or to offer a personal hearing to the offending partner , but few general rules can be laid down in this respect . |
| 2 | This principle now has statutory approval in s1(2) and it is unlikely that courts will agree to adjourn care proceedings unless there are particularly compelling arguments for allowing the criminal trial to proceed first . |
| 3 | Probably the remedy to try first , two or three times a day especially if there is a thick , milky-white , bland discharge that does not irritate or only very little . |
| 4 | It was Andy to putt first . |
| 5 | But there 's spring to come first , with the violets and primroses , and then the summer . ’ |
| 6 | You get your books to read first and then we 'll er |
| 7 | In July last year I was sponsored by a number of organisations to go on a Health Study Tour of Nicaragua to witness first hand their popular , positive health initiatives . |
| 8 | Local authority planning policies might require an applicant to demonstrate first that a proposed development required a coastal location and , if this was the case , to show that recyclable coastal sites had been considered before undeveloped or partly developed coastal sites were targeted . |
| 9 | Some senior shadow Cabinet members believe it would be better if Mr Kinnock delayed his departure until later this year , allowing the debate on the party 's future to unfold first . |
| 10 | It was a terrific grind with all the work at the College to take first place , and Greek and French to be squeezed in somehow . |
| 11 | What causes the sleep/wake rhythm to arise first , and how does the body clock develop later ? |
| 12 | Now safely married , does he need to overstate his determination to come first , constantly afraid that if he gives an inch , he will inevitably lose a mile ? |
| 13 | And there are no collectable power-ups to help you in the battle to shoot first and ask questions of the flaming wreckage later . |
| 14 | Staff pull out the stops to win first export order |
| 15 | ‘ We 've got work to do first , playtime afterwards , ’ said Otley , jumping to his feet . |
| 16 | The Maggot flew me back , because if we want to leave on Sunday morning then we 've got a heap of work to do first . |
| 17 | Well , no you 've got your work to do first . |
| 18 | The cameras focused on him as he went to the back of the green to kiss first Midge and then Chris . |
| 19 | The process of decomposing system models mirrored the requirement to consider first the overall effect of the Act on functional groupings and structures , then to examine responsibilities and tasks in some detail , ie taking a top-down approach that was initially unconstrained by existing factors but progressively took them into account . |
| 20 | However , the case of R v South Glamorgan Appeals Committee ex parte Evans ( 1984 ) showed that when looking at individual claims for a school place , it was necessary for an appeal committee to determine first whether the admission of one further child would prejudice efficient education at the school ( with the onus on the LEA to show that it would ) : if they concluded that it would not , they would have to allow the appeal . |
| 21 | Mr Yeltsin is a successful career communist who fought his way up through the construction-industry bureaucracy to become first secretary of Sverdlovsk , his home town and one of the largest cities in the Soviet Union . |
| 22 | He spoke to staff and prisoners to hear first hand what conditions are like inside . |
| 23 | In Joan Halton 's attempt to be more whole , she needed to know more about her desire to come first , at least for part of the time , rather than always maintaining the veneer of premature maturity she had felt forced into adopting as a child . |
| 24 | He wanted to get on with the job of examining the clothes and , he hoped , identifying the body , but he had another job to do first — to call on the River Police and give them such facts as he had . |
| 25 | I had one job to do first thing in the morning — to ring Sir Geoffrey Gillington and ask him to arrange for the manager of the Upper Thames Street branch of the bank to receive Miss Macdonald when she called , and to keep her letter for me . |
| 26 | Journalists can not claim to be above the law , but what they can claim , in every country which takes free speech seriously , is a right to publish first , and take the risk of conviction afterwards . |
| 27 | It was inevitable — and should have been obvious to the kinds of forecasting brains that IBM could afford — that the open systems movement would spread up from the desktop to infect first the minicomputer world and then the mainframe . |
| 28 | BRITISH TELECOM USES GEC PLESSEY , SIEMENS KIT TO BUILD FIRST METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORK IN THE UK |
| 29 | We believe on reflection that our supporters will recognize that our action has been actuated by the one desire to maintain first class soccer in Northants . ’ |
| 30 | Erm market demand will take the easier site to develop first . |