Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [verb] to [art] first " in BNC.

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1 The council later abandoned its plans to widen the highway and the reversion passed to the first defendants , who were not a highway authority .
2 A second legal mortgage can be created by leasing the land to the second mortgagee for a term longer by at least one day than the term limited to the first mortgagee .
3 This can be done by apply the formulae of Chapter 6 or , directly , by noting that replacing x 2 + σ 2 = 7 with x 2 + σ 2 = 3 can be effected by replacing σ 2 with σ 2 + 4 , so that the equation corresponding to the first row : becomes which is equivalent to replacing the RHS with 4 .
4 Whereas the railways in the past had been an integral part of the cityscape , running down main streets , leaving in their wake a succession of railroad crossings on the classic American street grid plan , by the turn of the century they were already disappearing behind fences , into cuttings , or underground , a process which was to be speeded up in the years leading to the First World War .
5 The thaw in US-Soviet relations and the unwillingness of both super-powers to prolong the war led to the first publicly acknowledged round of talks between Najibullah and sections of the mujaheddin alliance in November [ see p. 37855 ] .
6 The enthalpy corresponds to the first electron affinity of chlorine ( see section 3.1 ) .
7 In my view , when the truth of representations is being considered , no objection can be taken to the request relating to the first audit , nor to the second audit since the latter may well reveal material relevant to the conduct of the company 's business before acquisition and after acquisition in a way which reflects on the earlier conduct of the business .
8 Both arguments failed with the Court responding to the first by holding that the existing notification procedures were enough , there being no need for mandatory notification in all cases :
9 The wife came to the first cavern and saw the dreadful dragon , stretched out all along the sea , shooting out foam and spume from her nostrils , lashing up the waves with her tail .
10 In the course of time , because they developed from human imagination to which there are no limits , the powers ascribed to the first ‘ gods ’ became exaggerated beyond all reason .
11 The starting pulse also triggers the first delay circuit , which delays the pulse for a time , during which the motor moves to the first phase switching position .
12 Poor weather in the US contributed to the first fall in profit before tax at Tate & Lyle for 14 years .
13 The answer given to the first certified question was in line with those pronouncements , so even though Viscount Dilhorne was of opinion that the evidence fell short of establishing that Mr. Occhi had consented to the taking of the £6 it was a matter of decision that it made no difference whether or not he had so consented .
14 Certainly the children admitted to the first asylums were those most in need .
15 The cursor moves to the first occurrence of the REPLACE text typed in below its starting position or within the highlighted text .
16 It falls to the groom to reply to the first speech on behalf of himself and his bride .
17 Since one of the preparations given to the first patient contained up to 187 mg of arsenic trioxide per dose , there is a potential for fatal poisoning .
18 If the answer is No the network returns to the first activity and reconsiders it in the light of the objections raised in the question lozenge .
19 I can see nothing in principle to prevent a contemnor applying to the first instance court to be released from custody on the ground that the failure to serve him with the committal order has kept him in ignorance of the contempts for which he has been imprisoned and that , in the circumstances , justice requires his release .
20 They were all equally carefully examined by Philip Corder , John Gillam and myself , and there was a unanimous verdict that every sherd belonged to the first century .
21 At home they had behaved as if she were a toddler going to a first party in a party frock rather than a huge ungainly student eighteen years of age going to university dressed from head to toe in dark clothes .
22 Although you may decide to begin with a fade in , the circumstances may leave you with insufficient time for these niceties , and a crash-in cut to the first shot probably sets the mood for the sequence better in any case .
23 ‘ There is no magic left in the festive practices of Oxford , or Grimley , or wherever-the Morrismen and Mummers no magic unless the mind that enacts the festival has a gate opened to the first forest- ’
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