Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] it [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Staff wishing to avail themselves of this flexitime arrangement should discuss it in the first instance with their line manager . |
| 2 | They may feel New York for the first time because its fast-dealing busyness is something the screen does n't catch and may smell it for the first time if they come in high summer but one of the great first sights of the world is gone for ever . |
| 3 | We 'll have it as the first course this evening . ’ |
| 4 | Because I have on good information and I 'll say it for the first time on this programme , I intend to give this in my evidence tomorrow , that Rover intend to close not the south works first , but the north works first . |
| 5 | What they 're saying in effect is that they 're not going to entrust their latest toy to their closest ally because we 'd flog it to the first Russian we came across . ’ |
| 6 | Lesley 's family , colleagues and friends were praying she would make it through the first critical hours . |
| 7 | Mariscotti is a professor of physics at the University of Buenos Aires where he had become intrigued by the fact that the university had an old cyclotron , a primitive atom smasher built in the early 1950s , which would make it among the first half-dozen to have been built in the world . |
| 8 | The word processor is a very powerful tool for the transfer of thought from brain to paper ; probably most IT teachers would use it as the first introduction to practical computing , at least with literate students . |
| 9 | Well , er , it 's all according to whether they can afford it in the first instance , secondly , is it gon na be across the board ? |