Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] the first [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was very interested to receive the first edition of Nonesuch and to read that its name was derived from a flower connected with the City of Bristol — as a member of a 17th-century dance team , I had only previously come across Nonesuch as the name of a dance . |
| 2 | If you are prepared to pay the first £50 of all claims * yourself , you will be entitled to a premium discount which is normally one sixth of the new premium . |
| 3 | And , if you are prepared to pay the first £50 of any claim yourself , the basic rate is only £1.25 per £1,000 . |
| 4 | But , if you are prepared to pay the first £50 of any claim yourself , you will be entitled to a discount — normally 50p per £1,000 of insurance . |
| 5 | If you are prepared to pay the first £50 of all claims yourself , you will be entitled to a discount on your premium . |
| 6 | If you 're willing to pay the first £100 of any claim , your premium will fall by a further 10% . |
| 7 | They were quick to spot the first ripples of concern which have surged into a tide over the past year . |
| 8 | There were a number of clues available to Robson : if West had still held the guarded queen of clubs he would almost certainly have kept and exited with his last spade ; if he had held both the king and queen of clubs he would have been equally likely to win the first club with the queen ; and , from what had happened so far , it looked as though West had started with more clubs than his partner . |
| 9 | THE Premier League yesterday came up with a peace formula that seemed likely to avert the first strike by English footballers . |
| 10 | Because there is.little , if any , evidence of mosaics of the late-third century in Britain , it has been customary to assign the first mosaics of this diagnostic Orpheus sequence to this period ( see above ) . |
| 11 | Even though workers are prepared to accept a general reduction in the level of real wages , they are unwilling to take the first step of accepting money wage cuts in case other workers with whom they regard themselves as comparable fail to follow suit . |
| 12 | It is obviously helpful to make the first flights in smooth weather , with a clear horizon . |
| 13 | The development , first reported in The Scotsman three years ago , opens up the possibility of being able to treat the first signs of breast cancer when the chances of success are highest . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , Wesker was struck by another ( albeit minor ) disaster : Teomi was not able to attend the first day of rehearsals because Wesker had forgotten , when writing his schedule , that it was also Yom Kippur . |
| 15 | We can say with certainty that we would be able to mount the first kind of display ; but at the moment we can not be so certain about the travelling display which , although the more attractive proposition , has much more significant resource implications . |
| 16 | I 've been lucky to be able to launch the first concept of dread disease insurance , in South Africa you might have heard about us . |
| 17 | We might thus be able to provide the first step in assisting a school to maximise any award which it receives . |
| 18 | So one has to actually learn erm an entirely new alphabet before even being able to read the first word on the first page that you see in the archives . |
| 19 | It was another good example of why the sooner it is possible to delay the first round of the World Group matches so that there is more than a full week between them and the first Grand Slam tournament of the year , the better . |
| 20 | She left the pickup door hanging open to examine the first line of trees . |
| 21 | It is his show in Paris which attracts hoards of fans ( some of whom are hardened fashion journalists ) all keen to catch the first glimpse of Thierry 's latest creations . |
| 22 | If the substrate S can be used for something else , it is clearly efficient to control the first step in the synthesis , S→A , rather than , say , the last one , E→P , because in the latter case E would accumulate . |
| 23 | We er we got very close to beating Bellevue at Bellevue which was okay I mean everybody 's a bit rusty so and we were experimenting with tyres and everything and er it was only a challenge , but it was nice to get the first meeting on the way and er I was very impressed by some of er the team members of what I saw , I knew er team mate Dean Bargger was doing particularly well scoring 11 points and er he 's really a promising er youngster which I think we can get a lot of use out of , and er in general I mean you know Ellis Stevens was doing particularly well as well , so if those two can keep doing well during the season , then okay mine had a few problems , she only scored 3 points , but that was just a one-off so yeah I thing we look quite strong on paper again now . |
| 24 | On 15 October 1970 , Dustin had a photographer stationed outside the delivery room of the hospital ready to film the first moments of his first child 's life . |