Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.

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1 Yet after being annihilated in the first Test , England showed they could still fight .
2 AZUMAH NELSON of Ghana retained his WBC super-feather title in Lake Tahoe but Calvin Grove went the distance after being floored in the first round .
3 Swindon were facing financial ruin after being relegated from the first division last season …
4 It tells the story of an engineer who loses his job because of the effects of being gassed during the First World War .
5 he holds by virtue of being connected with the first company ;
6 It is the combination of being told for the first time that you have coronary disease with the need for an emergency procedure , for example , an angiogram .
7 She held posts in Northumberland and Dundee before being appointed as the first educational psychologist in Dumbarton .
8 That shows that both the president 's National Party ( NP ) and the ANC intend to be prepared for the first non-racial elections for a constituent assembly ; it is also a clear sign that both of them are sure that they can convince the other parties that the path they have laid down is the one to follow .
9 Nonetheless , they have to be embraced as a first step in understanding the limits to where Africa may be in another twenty-five or even fifty years .
10 ‘ It is riveting stuff , especially to be treated to the first performance of a production that has attracted such rave reviews .
11 A decree issued on Sept. 16 stated that the profits of all wholly Omani-owned companies were to be taxed for the first time from the end of 1989 .
12 But if the terminal repeats explain how wandering members of the Alu family might get into a chromosome , what can explain how they came to be wandering in the first place ?
13 But it wo n't work unless your employees want to be empowered in the first place
14 Incredibly , the government take £3.50 through VAT from the production of each medal , or roughly twice what the charities get , even though it is due to their cruel neglect that the medals have to be struck in the first place .
15 Conference papers can be notoriously esoteric and dull as a collection and I would not claim to be gripped from the first page to the last .
16 The immediate post-war period again provided the optimism that had existed in 1920 , and the farm worker appeared to be poised for the first time to achieve equality of pay and status with workers in other industries .
17 There is , however , a more fundamental reason why an attempt to perceive a structure within a given set of phenomena may fail ; it may be that there actually is no structure there to be perceived in the first place .
18 Tradesmen 's vans , builders lorries , furniture vans ( brought by night , twelve to twenty-five at a time , ) followed into the Road Vehicle Shop gate , their mechanical condition as varied as their outward appearance , to be fitted in the first place with a double wooden box lined with pebbles — a Heath-Robinson contraption , but resistant to machine-gun fire at close range .
19 Bargains began to be made for the first time , and it became readily apparent to the men that whatever rights they thought they had lost , had been transposed by an orderly system which benefited them as well as the Mineral Lord .
20 It would , in my opinion , in many ways be more logical for an application to be released from custody on the ground of non-service or delayed service of a committal notice to be made to a first instance judge rather than direct to this court .
21 The most powerful potential weapon in Parliament 's hands remains its control over clauses enabling regulations to be made in the first place .
22 Firstly , how did this extraordinary mistake came to be made in the first instance by the Department of Transport .
23 Alum pot itself could not fail to be noticed by the first settlers in the district , its yawning gulf constituting an obvious danger to both man and beast ; in the course of time , a wall was built around it and trees planted to indicate its position .
24 With the Second Ballot the winning candidate must poll more than half the votes to be elected at the first ballot .
25 In the case of a licensing board for a district or division of a district , the members were to be elected at the first meeting of the district council after its ordinary election in 1977 and thereafter after every ordinary election .
26 The new regulations , requiring a two-thirds majority in both houses of parliament , were expected to be enacted in the first half of 1993 and would bring German immigration and asylum provisions broadly in line with those of other West European countries .
27 ‘ Fifteen puppies to be done with the first injection .
28 It was said to have two sets of strings only , at 8' pitch , and , on the evidence of its appearance , it was to be dated to the first quarter of the 18th century .
29 DeFreitas had been considered fortunate to be selected for the first Test , when he was left out of the original squad but leapfrogged Essex seamer Mark Ilott after Alan Igglesden pulled out injured on the eve of the game .
30 The US , which is paying about $4 million for each missile , rightly points out , and sometimes ruefully , that the nations of Western Europe asked for the weapon to be deployed in the first place .
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