Example sentences of "[noun sg] up [prep] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Lord Redcliffe-Maud considered that Senior was the only one of the eleven commissioners who had made his mind up before the first meeting of the Royal Commission ( Wood 1976:8 ) .
2 The trial of Bradlaugh and Annie Besant in 1876 for republishing one of Knowlton 's pamphlets gave the birth-control movement wide publicity and created the demand for more information , and led to the setting up of the first organisation to campaign on birth control , the Malthusian League .
3 We combine these by choosing just a few random points in them , say two or three , and copying from the first string up to the first point ; then copying from the second up to the second point ; then copying from the first again ; and so on , switching between them at each point .
4 The case method had become adopted as the dominant method of legal study in the elite American law schools in the period up to the First World War .
5 Raffle prizes were donated by Roy and Carl and raised more than £130 for the club which just missed out on an historic victory — being runner up in the first division of the Industries League for a second year .
6 Ray Hanna takes G–FIRE up for the first time , Elstree , March 14 , 1981. ( via Spencer Flack )
7 Joey Beauchamp had enough chances to wrap the game up in the first half .
8 It roots very easily , and propagation is done by taking the cuttings and planting them , embedding the stalk up to the first node , that is the point where the next set of leaves grow .
9 ‘ There 's been a lot of talk about the £14 million funding for community care this year but the fact is £4 million of that went in setting the thing up in the first place and we 've only got £10 million left for the rest of the year , ’ said Coun Ron Kennedy .
10 Loan star Imre Varadi comes in on the starting line up for the first time in favour of the suspended Nick Cusack .
11 DAVID BRABHAM took his Ralt Spiess VW to victory in the penultimate round of the British Formula Three championship at Silverstone yesterday in a race shortened by four laps after a four-car pile up on the first lap .
12 Sorry , Charles , Chair , can we er , in noting the report , also is there some way in which we can , the Committee can convey its appreciation to the people who take on this , must be onerous responsibility er , er , and also can we congratulate the people who thought the scheme up in the first place .
13 This should be followed by a separate section on how to set the system up in the first place and how to check that it is working properly .
14 An interesting feature of the mill at Lower Glenastle is an earth ramp up to the first floor .
15 The only way up to the first floor from inside the works was via a ladder , which had started life as one of The Salisbury Volunteer Fire Brigade escapes , probably acquired by Mr. Farr during his service as a fireman in the early years of the century .
16 He puffed his way up to the first floor and , finding the outer door open , knocked on the inner one .
17 He led the way up to the first landing , where Charlie had had his bedsit .
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