Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the obligation to provide instruction about maintenance is to be limited only to the first occupier , it is likely that subsequent purchasers will require the information to be passed on every time the property is sold . |
| 2 | His financial transactions during the start-up period are listed below in the first column and are identified by capital letters . |
| 3 | And now to a village where the church bells have been rung properly for the first time in twenty years . |
| 4 | But she had a sudden change of heart and the pair were yesterday perched together for the first time . |
| 5 | It was the Saint Mary 's window though , which was considered best for the first class stamp . |
| 6 | Donna shivered and decided to head back to the car , not even sure why she had come here in the first place . |
| 7 | Namely , they form unstable open complexes with the vegetative RNA polymerase that are stabilized either by the first NTPs , that allow the formation of an initiated complex , or by DNA supercoiling . |
| 8 | Some of these influences carried forward into the first fortnight of the campaign , though they faded towards the end . |
| 9 | Of course last year that did n't happen and last year hidden away in the first part of the er the budget papers was this cut in the amount of money going to each pupil erm in education in secondary school , so this year we are not doing that we 're going to meet the full cost of so in that sense the formula will be unchanged , and of course there 's growth er later in the budget and both primary and secondary schools in terms delegated budgets . |
| 10 | The Crusade was formed shortly after the first march . |
| 11 | They should never have been developed separately in the first place . |
| 12 | They have done so in the first place because of the advantage of high space utilization on limited ground area ; an important asset to companies trying to make the best use of a high value industrial site with no room for extension . |
| 13 | At a few selected points , the particles crash together head-on , generating energy of an intensity matched only by the first moments of the explosion physicists believe created the universe . |
| 14 | The working leg is thrust outwards on the first beat of a bar , heels click and stamp to accent the appropriate beats . |
| 15 | The trove will be exhibited together for the first time at the Pierpont Morgan Library ( 9 December-4 April1993 ) , accompanied by an illustrated catalogue by William Voelkle and Roger Wieck , curator and associate curator , respectively , of the Morgan 's Department of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts . |
| 16 | Why had n't he said so in the first place ? |
| 17 | Arm and back heights too , can be varied since they have to be built separately in the first place , and there is almost always a large range of covers available for the choosing within the price range . |
| 18 | and any appeals against valuation have to be made soon after the first council tax demands are received at the end of March . |
| 19 | Pygmalion and Heartbreak House are the work of a writer at the peak of his powers : the former written just before the first world war , the latter just after it . |
| 20 | Nor , she was sure , Bert , whom she had seen yesterday for the first time as a potentially responsible comrade . |
| 21 | A BRITISH general was named yesterday as the first commander of Nato 's new Allied Rapid Reaction Corps , heading about 80,000 troops from 11 countries . |
| 22 | For effectiveness , then , magazines and journals tend to reach the most relevant markets , provided they are selected carefully in the first place . |
| 23 | If a house is not built soundly in the first place , and if it is not kept in good repair , it will fail when put to the test . |
| 24 | The Polytechnic had argued convincingly in the first round that to have done so then would have simply involved the NAB in steering its ‘ service ’ work around . |
| 25 | The income from customs dues , which had risen sharply in the first year of the reign , thanks to Mary 's reforms , was remarkably sluggish thereafter . |
| 26 | The draw 's been made today for the first round of the FA Cup … and here 's |
| 27 | I hurried back to the house to be met immediately by the first footman saying : ‘ We 've been looking all over for you , sir . |
| 28 | " Now " is better used in study than in unprofitable re-writing of what should have been done well in the first place . |
| 29 | Sean Gregan , Lee Ellison and Anthony Isaacs all products of the youth policy , have all done well in the first team this season . |
| 30 | What about for traders I mean , erm obviously you ca n't really c er why you ca n't comment on the fact that er how your father o o can you comment on how your father actually moved here in the first place . |