Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [vb infin] [prep] [pos pn] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Compound nouns in which the second element denotes an agent or an action may have for their first element a noun denoting the object of the action : housekeeper , housekeeping . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's a fact that in the first 12 months one in three firms will close and in the longer term 900pc of new companies will shut in their first five years . ’ |
| 3 | How total , he asks in a critique of totalization which Derrida would characterize as his first ‘ classical ’ formulation , can the totalization be ? |
| 4 | There are four essentially different things a process can do on its first step : ( i ) it diverges ; ( ii ) it communicates with its environment ( and goes on to its second step ) ; ( iii ) it stops because , even though it has not terminated , it can not agree with its environment on any communication ; ( iv ) it terminates in some state . |
| 5 | And now , in less than five hours , Prince Yuan would arrive for his first annual inspection . |