Example sentences of "[noun] could [vb infin] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It was held that the plaintiffs could succeed against the first defendants in contract , but in third party proceedings the first defendant 's action against the second defendants ( the manufacturers of the pails ) failed as the pails were merchantable under s14(2) . |
| 3 | Reform has already begun : this weekend voters could choose for the first time a single named candidate for the lower house , instead of numbers on a party list . |
| 4 | Despite the difficulty of imagining how a behaviour involving the three components outlined in the last paragraph could arise in the first place , I think it is quite possible that the explanation of stable age queues in animals may be of this kind . |
| 5 | Hence there is a problem of how cooperation could evolve in the first place , although it would be stable once it had evolved . |
| 6 | The £650,000 signing from Leeds could step into the first team if midfielder Steve Hodge fails to recover from the hamstring injury he suffered while training with England last weekend . |