Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [noun] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inveterate trafficker in traffic systems Peek Plc told its annual meeting yesterday that it saw signs of a trading upturn in March : ‘ Although trading conditions in the first two months of the current year continued to be difficult , we have seen signs of improvement in March — there is currently a significant amount of enquiry and bidding activity and it is expected that this will translate into firm orders , ’ chairman Ken Maud said . |
| 2 | It was Mr Duggan 's vision that secured Eurovision in the first place for Millstreet , against the odds . |
| 3 | It is expected that support materials for the first clusters will be available in summer 1992 . |
| 4 | In the same camp are several largely left-wing popular movements that portray Maastricht as the first step towards a European superpower and the end of Denmark as an independent state . |
| 5 | The second generalization , that kasabat kadis did not normally , after the beginning of the sixteenth century , make the jump to the mevleviyets needs only the qualification that " normally " must be emphasized , since exceptions do occur , though rather less frequently than do exceptions from the first generalization . |
| 6 | Use extended memory , and load smartdrv as the first device driver in CONFIG.SYS after the HIMEM.SYS command line . |
| 7 | Table 2.1 gives additional information about these two broad industrial areas , showing that it is in the retail trade and the hotels and catering industry in the first of these , and public administration , education , medical services , " other services to the public " , recreational and cultural services and personal services in the second , where the proportion of temporary workers is greatest and/or where an important share of the temporary workforce is to be found . |
| 8 | The person chosen to start the game chases after the others and holds hands with the first person caught . |
| 9 | They will also be showered with gifts like top-of-the-range Mercedes cars and luxury apartments if they can spring a World Cup upset and beat England for the first time . |
| 10 | Barclay pulled a pen from his pocket and prodded part of the first plate . |
| 11 | Is not the question more one of how we select and appoint committees in the first place ? |
| 12 | Many of these buildings which survive are in northern France and suffered bombardment in the First World War , but all are well restored to the original design . |
| 13 | When you reach the goal , ask the name of the city and give flowers to the first person you meet . ’ |
| 14 | So , straight away , Terry Nation sat down at his typewriter and began work on the first phase of any TV writing project , the story idea . |
| 15 | Temperate species are slow to accept it ; those that de-hardened and resumed growth at the first sign of spring warming would suffer severe damage in subsequent frosts . |
| 16 | He refused to comply and left Oxford after the first year to join the Guardian where he remained for seven years before taking up a post as an investigative journalist with a left-wing French newspaper . |
| 17 | Special BAYS membership offer — a special combined fee of £4.50 is available for young people who wish to come to BAYSDAY and join BAYS for the first time |
| 18 | On May 17th a partial but telling answer to the first of these questions emerged when US West , one of America 's huge regional Bell telephone companies , said it would pay $1.5 billion for a 25% stake in Time Warner Entertainment ( TWE ) , the cable-TV and film subsidiary of the world 's biggest media conglomerate , whose stars include Mel Gibson ( pictured above ) . |
| 19 | Since the letting can not be conceived as existing before the event permitted gets under way , to is not used with let , just as it is not used with see because seeing can not be conceived as taking place before the first moment of the event seen . |