Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 31 | The normal process , as seen during Innocent 's pontificate , was for messengers , often close confidants of the pope , but in minor offices , to be sent in the first instance — then to be followed by negotiators of the highest rank . |
| 32 | There were grandchildren to be met for the first time . |
| 33 | She had a violent impulse to summon Murphy and go at once to Trelorne and find Michael Swinton , and so strong was this inclination and the need to explain to him that she was personally so very Lyddy before she realized that such an action was only a perfect sequel in childish impetuosity to her former one of agreeing to be painted in the first place . |
| 34 | Eight months earlier he made an abortive attempt for the title , then held by the Frenchman Franck Nicotra , only to be stopped for the first time in his professional career . |
| 35 | Porter might wish to question how such groups with non-related SBUs came to be formed in the first place . |
| 36 | Magellan is to be ranked as the first navigator of ancient or modern times , and his voyage is the greatest single human achievement on the sea . |
| 37 | The second view would point to the fact that in reality it is the Prime Minister who , in setting the agenda for Cabinet discussion , decides what is to be discussed in the first place and consequently has power . |
| 38 | In 1911 the Parliament Act was passed permitting members of the British parliament to be paid for the first time . |
| 39 | Graham Thorpe , unlucky not to be chosen for the first Test against Australia , issued a timely reminder to the England selectors with an unbeaten 90 as Surrey struggled against joint championship leaders Glamorgan at the Oval . |
| 40 | Consider for a moment two ways of superimposing fourths on the scale of C major : In order to create chords each having two perfect fourths as in ( a ) , B♭ and E♭ have had to be introduced in the first and fourth chords . |
| 41 | Not only had the reception of The Family Reunion been altogether more favourable than the ill-started attempt in 1939 , but both this play and Murder in the Cathedral were to be performed at the first Edinburgh Festival in the following year . |
| 42 | The point , in short , is that such an existent is typically someone who knows and refers to himself as " I myself " , and that all reports that identify this existent in an essential way will have to be phrased in the first person singular . |
| 43 | They can take some getting used to and a bit of furtive fumbling is to be expected on the first few occasions . |
| 44 | • Try to arrange for your activities to be concentrated in the first part of the day and for relaxation to come later . |
| 45 | Festival organisers also hope for high standard of competition in a new music competition to be held for the first time this year . |
| 46 | Festival organisers also hope for high standard of music in a competition to be held for the first time . |
| 47 | Seven cult members , most of them elderly , left the compound in Waco , Texas , on Sunday in three groups , the largest number to be released since the first week of the siege when two adults and 21 children left . |
| 48 | It is true that the great width is only to be found in the first part of the new route but that is enough . |
| 49 | Each of the three hypotheses making up the theory of determinism to be expounded in the first part of this book has to do with mental events , which is to say events within consciousness . |
| 50 | In a speech at a national conference on industrial production made on Aug. 2 and released on Oct. 8 , Li Peng warned against " blind " over-rapid growth , and summed up the policies to be continued into the first two years of the forthcoming eighth five-year plan as " rectification and the deepening of reform " , with the emphasis on central control . |
| 51 | You do n't want to be falling at the first . ’ |
| 52 | One of the world 's few truly great beers was about to be brewed for the first time . |
| 53 | FA rules stipulate a player has to be signed before the first game . |
| 54 | They 're for the mass graves expected to be needed after the first German air raids . ’ |
| 55 | It was an appalling mistake for the city to be attacked in the first place . |
| 56 | Pink tablets to be taken at the first sign of symptoms and Yellow tablets that only need to be taken if symptoms persist . |
| 57 | Had the hernia been strangulated , action would have had to be taken at the first sign of trouble . |
| 58 | He hopes to be challenging for the first team by Christmas . |
| 59 | We urge you to consider our request for a nursery to be attached to the first school to give the children a head start in their education . |
| 60 | But child benefit is to be frozen for the first time in two years . |