Example sentences of "be [to-vb] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | that they 're really , they 're to arrest first and foremost , they 're , they 're to arrest the suspect , and bring that person before the er , judging magistrate , or the judge , whatever the case may be , and the , and has made , made out that it is a disadvantage therefore , if they are also expected to bring evidence , as , for the prosecution . |
| 2 | If this is not possible ( and it usually is n't ) , the golden advice at the present time must be to sell first rather than risk lumbering yourself with the crippling expense of having to borrow for several months or possibly longer . |
| 3 | Though passages were booked for Macnab and Margaret Joyce , who were to go first while Joyce settled their affairs in London , the tickets were never used . |
| 4 | alright , alright , quite everybody , quite , right , who want 's to go first ? |
| 5 | Who is to come first ? |
| 6 | A particular research project that I and two colleagues , Keith Baker and Erin Sloman , have a grant from the Science Research Council for is to look first of all at the problems of getting such as system with , well at the moment three but possibly up to twelve computers , working on a given existing artificial intelligence problem to see how to take this big program — it 's called Popeye — it 's a research project to study various areas of visual perception , as you say — to see how to break this down and have it running simultaneously on a number of much smaller computers , rather than on the single big computer that it 's running on at the moment . |
| 7 | The correct procedure is to apply first to the county court judge for leave , but if leave is refused , the application may be renewed before the Court of Appeal . |
| 8 | The proper procedure is to apply first to the Court of Appeal , but if leave is refused , the application may be renewed before the Appeal Committee within one month of the refusal of leave by the Court of Appeal . |
| 9 | An alternative method is to derive first the energy of a circuit ( or circuits ) and then use the principle of virtual work to find the force . |
| 10 | Perhaps the best way to approach the interview is to consider first what stage the research has reached . |
| 11 | The best thing to do is to ring first . |
| 12 | Surkov was to go first . |
| 13 | If under the contract between A and B property had not yet passed to B ( see Chapter 3 ) , then A was still the owner when he sold to C. Still being the owner , A could pass that ownership to C. One has to examine the two contracts , B's and C's , and find out under which of them property was to pass first . |
| 14 | The serviles , as the conservative opposition was known , had few prospects in the Constituent Cortes : on 23 May 1813 the Cortes summoned its successor , the Ordinary Cortes , which was to meet first in Cadiz and then Madrid . |
| 15 | Marjorie was to hide first . |
| 16 | In the event , we had to return at separate times and as the friend , Mr. Robin Townsend , was to cross first , he took the plastic ticket and we agreed he would arrange to have the ticket divided , and leave my part at your Ostend office . |