Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prize will be given to the first correct entry ( which should be sent to by ) and we 'll print the answers in the next issue . |
| 2 | Glasgow has marketed itself as a city which rejoices in diversity , but will it be singing about the first homosexual festival ? |
| 3 | It was not the first African paper , although nowadays some Tanzanians think that it was ; nevertheless it is the only one whose direct descendants are still in existence , and may be regarded as the first successful , viable paper ( that term has to be used in a relative sense ) edited and produced by Africans . |
| 4 | The patient should be treated within the first 6 hours of the onset of symptoms ; the longer you delay therapy the greater the risk of haemorrhage into the area of myocardial infarction following thrombolysis . |
| 5 | Specific proposals will no doubt be contained in the first joint spending and budget announcement in late autumn . |
| 6 | It is to be hoped that as a result of the guidance in the subsequent paragraphs most will be confined to the first two categories . |
| 7 | I am presently considering what measures should be included in the first Welsh Agri-Environment Plan and will consult widely about them in due course . |
| 8 | This same feeling should be carried into the first welcome meeting which should set the tone in the way that gospel singer George Beverly Shea did for Billy Graham . |
| 9 | They can take some getting used to and a bit of furtive fumbling is to be expected on the first few occasions . |
| 10 | After that coat of paint has dried , a clear flat coat will be applied over the first that will produce a matt surface which will not fingerprint or stain . |
| 11 | That shows that both the president 's National Party ( NP ) and the ANC intend to be prepared for the first non-racial elections for a constituent assembly ; it is also a clear sign that both of them are sure that they can convince the other parties that the path they have laid down is the one to follow . |
| 12 | The programmes will be subject to review with the passage of time but no substantial additions to them will be made for the first six years ( except for changes required because of matters outside of governing body control and except for minor alterations to equipment ) . |
| 13 | CHANGES SHOULD NOT NORMALLY BE MADE AFTER THE FIRST TWO WEEKS OF THE TEACHING PERIOD . |
| 14 | Brigit , 45 , will be seen in the first commercial this week playing a mum worried about her daughter going to university for the first time . |
| 15 | What Ho himself understood by Marxism at this stage can perhaps best be seen in the first Vietnamese Marxist revolutionary text : The Road to Revolution , published in 1926 . |
| 16 | There were insufficient vehicles in the first delivery to work the whole service between Sutton and Croydon and several of the earlier 1–60 batch ex-L.U.T. trolleybuses , known as ‘ Diddlers ’ because of the clicking noise their contactors made , had to be used during the first few weeks . |
| 17 | They 're for the mass graves expected to be needed after the first German air raids . ’ |
| 18 | The Group will continue to provide support for Central America Week in March , and will be investigating in the first few years of the five year period the possibility of raising the profile of the Andean countries . |
| 19 | Intercourse is safe throughout pregnancy , unless you had a previous miscarriage , in which case it should be avoided during the first 14 weeks and avoided altogether if you have a history of miscarrying . |
| 20 | The " Paris Club " of industrialized creditor countries would write down rescheduled debt by two-thirds instead of one-third ; they would deal with the total debt of an eligible country in one operation instead of in one-year maturities ; interest payments would be capitalized for the first five years of rescheduling , with debt repayments linked to the debtor nation 's export capacity ; and the repayment period would be extended from 14 to 25 years . |
| 21 | Inter alia , the Inland Revenue are reluctant to grant clearance where the consideration is loan stock and is redeemable within a relatively short period , and clearance is usually given only if the loan notes can not be redeemed within the first six months after issue . |
| 22 | A more detailed statement will be provided for the first six months of 1993 sometime during August . |
| 23 | I have n't looked at the details of those figures , but are there predominantly be provided in the first ten years of the structure plan . |
| 24 | The prices will be announced before the first commercial shipment . |
| 25 | Although the time it takes an egg to travel from the ovary to the womb can be five to eight days , the egg itself can only be fertilised in the first 6–24 hours following ovulation . |
| 26 | * A report submitted as part of the public consultations on THORP says that an extra 200 fatal cancers and 10,000 skin cancers will be caused by the first 10 years of discharges from the plant . |
| 27 | In a speech at a national conference on industrial production made on Aug. 2 and released on Oct. 8 , Li Peng warned against " blind " over-rapid growth , and summed up the policies to be continued into the first two years of the forthcoming eighth five-year plan as " rectification and the deepening of reform " , with the emphasis on central control . |
| 28 | I would say that they were accurate when they were produced and there produced on the basis of accuracy at the time and they would be reviewed after the first financial period |
| 29 | The prize will be awarded to the first correct entry checked after the closing date . |
| 30 | Medals will be awarded to the first three home in each category . |