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

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31 The single charge upon which Barry was convicted alleged that he had possessed cocaine between Nov. 7 and Nov. 10 , 1989 , an offence which carried a maximum sentence of one year in prison and a fine of $100,000 , although it was extremely rare for a prison sentence to be imposed for a first offence of this nature .
32 Porter might wish to question how such groups with non-related SBUs came to be formed in the first place .
33 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 .
34 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 .
35 In 1911 the Parliament Act was passed permitting members of the British parliament to be paid for the first time .
36 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 .
37 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 .
38 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 .
39 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 .
40 They can take some getting used to and a bit of furtive fumbling is to be expected on the first few occasions .
41 • Try to arrange for your activities to be concentrated in the first part of the day and for relaxation to come later .
42 Festival organisers also hope for high standard of competition in a new music competition to be held for the first time this year .
43 Festival organisers also hope for high standard of music in a competition to be held for the first time .
44 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 .
45 It is true that the great width is only to be found in the first part of the new route but that is enough .
46 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 .
47 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 .
48 You do n't want to be falling at the first . ’
49 One of the world 's few truly great beers was about to be brewed for the first time .
50 FA rules stipulate a player has to be signed before the first game .
51 They 're for the mass graves expected to be needed after the first German air raids . ’
52 It was an appalling mistake for the city to be attacked in the first place .
53 Pink tablets to be taken at the first sign of symptoms and Yellow tablets that only need to be taken if symptoms persist .
54 Had the hernia been strangulated , action would have had to be taken at the first sign of trouble .
55 He hopes to be challenging for the first team by Christmas .
56 Technology and Innovation is therefore to be welcomed as a first step towards changing this state of affairs .
57 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 .
58 But child benefit is to be frozen for the first time in two years .
59 This reflects the pressures that caused the documents to be produced in the first place .
60 IBM said that first quarter revenues were down slightly in the US — where the economy was perceived to be improving until the first set of statistics in April , and in Asia , while revenues from IBM 's European operations fell by 13.8% .
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