Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] the first [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as Leonard learned to talk he was taught to recite the first words of the Shema , the ‘ creed ’ of Judaism which originated on Sinai with Moses and is recited daily : |
| 2 | What is he going to say when he discovers that he is expected to transmit the first report from an advisory unit in the history of government to include an account of the Director 's domestic arrangements ? |
| 3 | They were working up to the crucial ( as it was then ) question of how and why she had come to identify the first body as Uncle Mossycop 's . |
| 4 | This feature was designed to cover the first flights of three Spitfires , during the time of its production that statistic changed to four ! |
| 5 | GOVERNORS at Colchester County High School have voted to take the first steps on the road to opting out . |
| 6 | Following the trend spearheaded by Unify Corp with its Accell 4GL toolset a few years ago , Ingres Corp is expected to make the first moves in liberating its own toolsets from the Ingres database next month . |
| 7 | It was all hands on deck as the crew of the Soren Larsen , prepared to lift the first part of the ship 's 100 ft foremast back into place . |
| 8 | That type may then be broken up or ‘ distributed ’ , if the publisher has decided to limit the first edition to a stated number , or if there is no demand for additional copies . |
| 9 | The feature close would have the value + for , , , , and we could also use this for and if we adopt the convention that most of the features will be used to classify the first part of the diphthongs . |
| 10 | ICTU has agreed to include the first point in their Agenda at their Biennial Conference . |
| 11 | By this time Mozart had been commissioned to write the first opera for the carnival in Milan the following year . |
| 12 | And just keep a record of the time that I recorded it and er a little bit I 've just got to give the first names of the people that were talking but it 's done anonymously so there 's no no problem with that . |
| 13 | Because of the need to keep premiums in line with claims we have reluctantly had to make the first increase in our basic BUILDINGS rate for many years . |
| 14 | We are delighted to report that Lady More has agreed to become the first president of the Society and has given us a most generous donation in memory of her husband . |
| 15 | A prospectus was drawn up and students with suitable qualifications were invited to attend the first course in 1977 . |
| 16 | Scheduled to ship the first week of June , OpenView SNMP is priced at $7,000 , Distributed Management costs $8,000 and HP 's OpenView Network Node Manager costs $15,000 . |
| 17 | There are even some ( not you , of course ! ) who have been known to lick the first finger of the right hand and dip it into the bottom of the packet , so that those tiny remaining crumbs of crisp can be finished off . |
| 18 | When it was lifted out of the water it was found to have the first metre of the entire hull section missing . |
| 19 | Pinnacle Data Systems Inc , one of the Sparc system manufacturers that plans to build a workstation compatible with Sun Microsystems Inc 's Mbus-based Sparcstation 10 ( UX No 392 ) , is set to become the first customer for Cypress Semiconductor Corp 's 64-bit HyperSparc RISC chip , a CPU which has garnered no discernible industry support since its launch back in May ( UX No 385 ) . |
| 20 | As my son has again won great honour by his composition of the dramatic serenata , he has been asked to write the first opera for the coming carnival in Milan and immediately afterwards the second opera for the Teatro San Benedetto in Venice [ this second commission was never , in fact , carried out ] … |
| 21 | Also , subjects were asked to describe the first meeting with a close friend or partner ; in this case all the persons described in the account were found to be favourable and the account are being made in retrospect . |
| 22 | The presidium and committees were to be formed by December , and it was hoped to hold the first session of the Baltic Assembly by January 1992 . |
| 23 | ( And Baden-Powell had been asked to become the first chairman of the Juvenile Organizations Committee , established by the Home Secretary , Herbert Samuel in 1916 . ) |
| 24 | In this case , ‘ some power of R ’ must be taken to include the first power of R , i.e. R itself . |
| 25 | Marion and her son had an agreeable high tea of poached eggs on toast , tea and cakes , went for a little walk along Old Compton Street and bought some gorgonzola and a pound of cherries before returning to the theatre for the evening show ; he was allowed to watch the first act from the wings before making his way back to Putney on his own . |
| 26 | In one home a somewhat unhappy new resident was allowed to spend the first week after admission dressed in her coat and sleeping in a chair . |
| 27 | Not to mention a rapid passing on of mortgage cuts to bedraggled flocks of existing homeowners ; who are less than thrilled to see the first helping of crumbs go in instant cheap deals to first-time buyers . |
| 28 | If you have chosen to bear the first £50 of claims , you will find that renewal is offered on the basis of a £100 excess for all claims , ( except Subsidence for which the excess is unaltered ) . |
| 29 | The implementation of Council Tax has gone reasonably successfully to date and we have managed to process the first stage of recovery , that is Reminders , at the end of May 1993 . |
| 30 | Armed envoys of Life President Dr Hastings Banda had apprehended Chakufwa Chihana , the British-educated trade union leader mandated to sow the first seeds of a Malawi spring , and the Catholic church , a powerful ally , had fallen silent . |