Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [prep] [art] first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alec Monk , formerly international advertising controller at Nestlé , refused to approve any commercial in which the brand name failed to appear in the first seven or eight seconds , and in which it was not repeated several times . |
| 2 | As for tomorrow 's race , Jeremy ca n't realistically expect to finish in the first ten first time out . |
| 3 | When I came back from Bletchley , I had agreed to tutor for the First Ordinary English class at Edinburgh University a Polish woman considerably older than myself . |
| 4 | There are various clinics and self-help groups to support and encourage those wanting to kick the habit ; but a lot of determination will be needed to get through the first difficult weeks or months . |
| 5 | ‘ The chorus has got to happen within the first 30 seconds , it 's got to be memorable after the first play and it 's either got to make you feel reflective or happy . ’ |
| 6 | Trim the top large piece on one side so that it slopes to join with the first small piece , and trim the very top small piece in the same way . |
| 7 | erm and with this money that I 'm going to earn in the first six weeks and then possibly erm getting a job while I 'm doing the correspondence course erm you know even if it 's just bar work and especially |
| 8 | Figure 3 shows that the highest frequency of intolerances seem to occur in the first eight weeks after completing the course of elemental diet . |
| 9 | Beijing University students fifty years before had dared to protest against the first Japanese invasion and Chiang Kaishek 's apparent complicity in their designs in what become known as the ‘ December Ninth ’ movement . |
| 10 | Their call is timed to coincide with the first European Day for disabled people . |
| 11 | Their call is timed to coincide with the first European Day for disabled people . |
| 12 | As regards contracts of employment , it is provided that he is to be liable on any contract of employment adopted by him but nothing he does or omits to do in the first 14 days of his appointment is to be taken as adoption of the contract . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | Hunt had to finish in the first three to win the title . |
| 15 | The gunners had been ordered to aim at the first two vessels , and at a bare two hundred yards ' range they could scarcely miss . |
| 16 | All I wanted to do for the first few weeks was to let Skipper get to know me and his surroundings . |
| 17 | In spite of the weather conditions 50 bands , travelled to compete at the first outdoor competition of the new season . |
| 18 | But although there was relief at this success , it is significant that Cambridge have failed to score during the first 45 minutes of their last eight games . |
| 19 | The most important of these , from a behavioural point of view , are held to happen in the first five years of life . |
| 20 | 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 . |