Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the obligation to provide instruction about maintenance is to be limited only to the first occupier , it is likely that subsequent purchasers will require the information to be passed on every time the property is sold . |
| 2 | His financial transactions during the start-up period are listed below in the first column and are identified by capital letters . |
| 3 | However , climbing sports differ from true climbers in that invariably they do not bloom until the second year wood , and then only on side shoots , and seldom repeat much after the first burst of bloom during June . |
| 4 | In December 1989 the ‘ First National Conference on Knowledge Representation and Inference in Sanskritam ’ was organised by the Computer Society of India in Bangalore , bringing together for the first time linguists and computer scientists from all over India . |
| 5 | And now to a village where the church bells have been rung properly for the first time in twenty years . |
| 6 | But she had a sudden change of heart and the pair were yesterday perched together for the first time . |
| 7 | Each of these clear days of scattered apple and white pear tree blossom moved inexorably towards the first day when they set out without books and came home in the evening showing the pink or blue papers they had tested themselves against in the examination hall . |
| 8 | Gael , who is not religious , holds only with the first half of the double limerick according to which existence depends on being the object of another 's perception . |
| 9 | It was the Saint Mary 's window though , which was considered best for the first class stamp . |
| 10 | The Cristo Chapel , built soon after the first landing in the fifteenth century , was rebuilt during the sixteenth century and again in 1883 . |
| 11 | ‘ She received a very serious wound to the stomach and two slashes to her arm , apparently inflicted as she staggered away after the first attack . |
| 12 | Skipper Chris Dickson feathered the mainsail up the first weather leg so that navigator Erle could jury rig a new mainsheet arrangement before the load came back on the boom as the boat bore away around the first mark . |
| 13 | The Brook flows under the shops opposite , built just before the First World War . |
| 14 | However the continuation of active addictive disease is even more boring and oppressive and the initial enthusiasm usually matures gradually within the first year of recovery . |
| 15 | The fact that the army and guerrillas had agreed to meet directly for the first time was seen as a breakthrough and a indication that " professional " elements in the army leadership wished for a political solution . |
| 16 | Wings appear externally for the first time and the insect takes on the appearance of an adult . |
| 17 | Donna shivered and decided to head back to the car , not even sure why she had come here in the first place . |
| 18 | Also , because the rats ’ behaviour changed immediately after the first reinforcement trial , Tolman argued that the results obtained could only occur if the rats had earlier developed a cognitive map , that is the mental representation of the particular special arrangement of the maze . |
| 19 | Since having the frame fitted at Middlesbrough General Hospital , Claire , of Warwick Street , Middlesbrough , can look forward to walking independently for the first time . |
| 20 | Since having the frame fitted at Middlesbrough General Hospital , she can look forward to walking independently for the first time . |
| 21 | Cutting that over the numbers had me down and stopped well before the first intersection , a distance of around 400 metres , and I could have done much better if I 'd heaved on the brakes , which are single Goodyear discs with excellent stopping power . |
| 22 | ‘ I did n't ask you to come here in the first place , and I certainly did n't ask for your help out here . |
| 23 | The possibility of getting that accommodation encourages many refugees to come here in the first place . |
| 24 | I nearly crashed twice in the first lap . |
| 25 | I was confident I could wear her down eventually , but I certainly never expected her to come across at the first time of asking . |
| 26 | Namely , they form unstable open complexes with the vegetative RNA polymerase that are stabilized either by the first NTPs , that allow the formation of an initiated complex , or by DNA supercoiling . |
| 27 | No , they say sadly to the first question ; and Yes , most definitely , to the second . |
| 28 | Some of these influences carried forward into the first fortnight of the campaign , though they faded towards the end . |
| 29 | It was developed and used primarily during the First World War as a means of preventing dogs , used in the trenches as messengers and for other activities , from betraying their positions by a casual bark . |
| 30 | Of course last year that did n't happen and last year hidden away in the first part of the er the budget papers was this cut in the amount of money going to each pupil erm in education in secondary school , so this year we are not doing that we 're going to meet the full cost of so in that sense the formula will be unchanged , and of course there 's growth er later in the budget and both primary and secondary schools in terms delegated budgets . |