Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [noun] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was not consulted about membership of the Group , and with the exception of Dr Charles Suckling , a member of the Kingman Committee , I met the members for the first time when we assembled in London for our opening working session . |
| 2 | Breeze now met the Vicar for the first time , and thought he was one of the most unconventional people she had ever seen . |
| 3 | On Monday , the managing director , Jacques Calvet , met the unions for the first time but said there could be no discussion of pay until production was resumed . |
| 4 | As Mr Urbanec met the opposition for the first time , it appeared increasingly likely that his predecessor , Mr Milos Jakes , would eventually find himself behind bars . |
| 5 | The dancing was still going on too , although Seb thought the playing of the fiddlers lacked the exuberance of the first night . |
| 6 | The Regional Council has just completed the provision of the first phase of access and servicing to the site , and is able to offer up to 4 development plots for sale or lease . |
| 7 | I try to kill the man with the first shot . |
| 8 | Wordsworth writes as if he is a new kind of human being , like Adam naming the creatures for the first time . |
| 9 | Building the cost into the first part of the proceedings , so that the cost was recovered as part of the original action , would hardly be practicable . |
| 10 | Often a successful project is followed by another , building the foundation of the first . |
| 11 | Indebted countries ' options depend on the magnitude of the debt , who lent the money in the first place , and on what terms . |
| 12 | An accountant , in order to stand any chance of a career in corporate finance , must have a good academic record ( 2.1 or better ) at a recognised university ( red brick or Oxbridge ) , must have trained with one of the top accountancy firms , and passed the exams at the first attempt . |
| 13 | Having calculated the profit for the first six months discuss whether the profit figure is a useful benchmark for measuring the performance of the business , and also whether it is useful as a guide to future profitability . |
| 14 | Ali failed to go the route for the first time in his career . |
| 15 | Like she was high , not on booze or pills but some of that good mellow shit that used to go the rounds at the first dinner parties I ever went to , at Liza 's place , when the world was young and lovable . |
| 16 | Few strategists would gainsay the primacy of the First Pillar — the defence of the British Isles — upon which the sovereignty of the realm depends ; though , paradoxically , the United Kingdom has usually been so secure behind its sea walls that Home Defence has been accorded the lowest allocation of resources . |
| 17 | And in one respect it 's not quite erm as straightforward as I 've made it appear , and perhaps after all I 'm not wrong in making the claim I did , because E P Thompson , the historian , erm was the person who really made the discovery in the first place , and it came about because he had been interested in the possible links between the Muddletonians and Blake , and this led him to ask questions which , in a roundabout way , led to the discovery of the archive . |
| 18 | You made the mess in the first place — remember ? ’ |
| 19 | No company , after all , is better equipped to design a jamming device for a particular missile than the company that made the missile in the first place . |
| 20 | well I mean we had one girl did n't know what she was going about , but , you know , women do n't have all the work to do in the house and her dad helps at weekends and I said well who made the decision in the first place to do what |
| 21 | Personally I think that the answer is for manufacturers such as Olivetti to not pass the buck to the dealer using the excuse that it is the dealer who made the buck in the first place ! |
| 22 | Jim Gardiner made the breakthrough in the first half , then Roddy Collins and Michael Cash finished things off with further goals in the last ten minutes . |
| 23 | Can it be all together coincidence those names , places and events that made the headlines during the First World War have done so again in recent years ? |
| 24 | He was the one who made the running in the first place , and I quite like him . ’ |
| 25 | Yet again , if slightly more hardcore fans have n't already got ‘ Injected With A Poison ’ ( mix credited to Digital Orgasm , daft since they made the record in the first place ) or Sonz Of A Loop Da Loop Era , then they must have been in a coma for months . |
| 26 | In chapter six of Emendatio Vitae he says that man must either be burnt in this life with the fire of God 's love and of tribulation ( the last being a means to proving the strength of the first ) or , after this life , bitterly in hell — a perception that Eliot transposes into a modern idiom in Little Gidding : We only live , only suspire Consumed by either fire or fire . |
| 27 | When using the machine for the first time , the manufacturers advise that the machine should be filled to capacity and then emptied , before re-filling and stripping . |
| 28 | It may simply be said that what is needed for two events to be cause and effect as we understand them is that the probability of the second , given the first , is higher than the probability of the second , given the absence of the first . |
| 29 | The simplest reason for the disappointing subscription is that the novelty of a kitchen maid poet had dissipated in the four years since the first subscription , especially among the gentry around Brackley who might now observe Philip Leapor enjoying the fruits of the first volume . |
| 30 | There are two main ways of singing the songs after the first verse . |