Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [vb infin] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The onus of making that interpersonal connection between their differing maps of the mind must rest in the first place with the staff , not with the student . |
| 2 | The Department of Industry will pay for the first three years , but after that expects FABMS to pay for itself . |
| 3 | Active or REM sleep onset will persist for the first twelve months of life in normal infants . |
| 4 | It is accepted procedure that an imprisoned contemnor can apply to the first instance court to purge his contempt and be released from prison . |
| 5 | How important this single factor is in maintaining traditional agricultural management in the French uplands is impossible to estimate but , if the proposal remains as it is , more small French farms in the LFA may intensify for the first time . |
| 6 | It 's quite clear of course that though Diodati may belong to the first class , Milton belongs to the second . |
| 7 | Although a total prohibition exists for the third category above , special circumstances may exist for the first two services . |
| 8 | ISO should reveal for the first time the fine details of star-birth . |
| 9 | The time set for one of the days is midnight , but it is not clear how long the Committee might sit for the first six days . |
| 10 | It could well be that an Australian will win for the first time . |
| 11 | Depression and loneliness will descend after the first few days of nervous euphoria . |
| 12 | Likewise , the reactive home medic may panic at the first sign of trouble , fail to diagnose the true cause of the problem and , in adding a so-called ‘ remedy ’ , do more harm than good . |
| 13 | ‘ Following this decision , the Community will have for the first time a single framework within which takeovers and mergers of a Community dimension can be dealt with , recognising the importance of maintaining fair competition throughout the single market . ’ |
| 14 | As you straighten your hand the band will jump from the first two fingers on to the third and fourth ones . |
| 15 | Most innocuous sadism would fall into the first category ; sadistic murder would mark the extreme of the second . |
| 16 | Shares in Maxtor Corp slid after the disk drive company shocked the market with news of a fourth quarter loss ( see page five ) , and the price dipped $1.25 to $6.375 on Friday ; the company blamed ‘ severe price competition , ’ which hit gross margins ; it says the negative pressures of the fourth quarter will continue into the first quarter of fiscal 1994 , but predicted that plans to put new products on the market ahead of the competition ‘ is the key to winning new OEM customers and minimising the effects of industry price-cutting . ’ |
| 17 | BAYWATCH couple Billy Warlock and Erika Eleniak will marry in the first episode of the next series , their last appearance in the hit TV show . |
| 18 | Therefore , a second thief can steal from the first : Meech [ 1974 ] QB 549 ( CA ) . |
| 19 | Following a request from an Age Concern organisation , we will also be producing short guidelines on why older people should vote in the first place . |
| 20 | The implications of these findings are doubly serious because it is equally likely that the spindle-disrupting action of alcohol could occur during the first meiotic division . |
| 21 | If no start name is specified , the listing will start with the first alphanumerical module in LIFESPAN ; if no end module name is specified , the listing will end at the last alphanumerical module in LIFESPAN . |
| 22 | The Cabinet will meet for the first time on Wednesday to draw up a programme of legislation for the new session of Parliament , which will last 18 months until the autumn of 1993 . |
| 23 | MANDATORY repatriation of Hong Kong 's Vietnamese boat people will resume during the first half of next month , despite the protest action in detention centres and international pressure on Britain and the Hong Kong Government to allow more time for voluntary repatriation . |
| 24 | This liability would fall in the first instance on the resident owner , then the resident tenant and so on . |
| 25 | As soon as the passport came through , Coleman should wait for the first convenient lull in the fighting in Beirut and then leave immediately . |
| 26 | In 1989 the same committee suggested that a possible slight shortage of doctors might occur by the first decade of the twenty first century . |
| 27 | ( 4 ) Subject to section 13(2) of this Act , if no application is made for the renewal of a licence at the quarterly meeting mentioned in subsection ( 3 ) above , the licence shall expire on the first day of that meeting . |
| 28 | THE Kellogg 's Tour of Britain will start for the first time in Portsmouth and finish in Liverpool after 550 miles ' racing in five days in August . |
| 29 | The procedure is very informal ; a short note or even a telephone call will suffice in the first instance as we are mainly interested in concepts rather than with detailed descriptions . |
| 30 | Steve Jones will run for the first time in the Morpeth-Newcastle , Britain 's oldest road race , on New Year 's Day .. |