Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] the [noun] [prep] first " in BNC.

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1 If a police officer has to request a driver to produce a current test certificate , the officer must bear in mind the problem of proving the date of first registration .
2 Well , with the coffee it 's all a matter of putting the sugar in first and stirring well .
3 On the other hand , since most teenage mothers in the great majority of developing countries are married , corrective measures might be concerned first with advancing the age at first marriage through an alteration of the cultural elements that prescribe early marriage and affecting greater use of contraceptives among married teenagers .
4 But as time went on he realised he could not convey how the style had evolved without understanding the techniques at first hand .
5 2.4 It is Department of Education and Science ( DES ) policy , and is enshrined in National Curriculum documents on modern foreign languages , ‘ to encourage diversification by widening the choice of first foreign languages available ’ in schools .
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