Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [pers pn] [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 | Your article should reach me by the first Friday of the month . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | Well , I can tell you something ; I 'm on my own in this house from now on and I shall see to her bathing , and should he attempt to stop me , I 've told him what I 'll do ; I 'll brain him with the first thing I get my hands on . |
5 | Try and keep them dry , and take the painkillers we 'll give you for the first few days . |
6 | We 'll have it as the first course this evening . ’ |
7 | 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 . |
8 | So we 'll pop you on the first one tomorrow . ’ |
9 | 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 . ’ |
10 | So it er could pay you in the first year of business to incur any capital that you could afford , because you can either get it against your first year 's profits , or by not using the capital allowances , it 's available for subsequent years ' profit . |
11 | Lesley 's family , colleagues and friends were praying she would make it through the first critical hours . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | I should have realized that Clive would dump me at the first opportunity , that he had in fact been looking for an excuse to do so . |
15 | He would instruct them in the first instance to threaten to seize the man 's belongings to the value of the money owed . |
16 | This data set , coupled with extensive satellite observations , will give us for the first time a essentially a snapshot view of the behaviour of the ocean . |
17 | Finn 's Hotel will enable us for the first time to approach the encyclopedic Finnegans Wake with a true and not misleading knowledge of its origins and of the prototypes of its protagonists . |
18 | Whatever the General may consider best , I will destroy you at the first available opportunity . ’ |
19 | Sir Anthony said on the BBC 's World at One : ‘ I almost certainly will challenge her in the first round if no one else comes forward . |
20 | If a Region would like a special overseas visitor not catered for in the Grid system , they can contact me in the first place . |
21 | Erm y'know even if it takes them quite a while to fill out y'know go through all eighty items y'know which could be erm y'know kind of , well depending how quickly they work y'know , sort of half an hour or something but if you if you get some er er a sort of type-written draft run off um I du n no , next Tuesday 's quite a quite a short deadline but maybe the Tuesday after that er we can try them on the first years if you like ? |
22 | 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 ? |
23 | Well , that 's always supposing you can get him in the first place , because the number of people who have actually seen him , you can count on one hand . ’ |