Example sentences of "[vb base] the [noun sg] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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1 | Place the cursor on the first character of the first word at the top of the column to be moved ( eg the G of GENERAL in Task 23 below ) |
2 | I mean , if I were to sell my house now supposing somebody came galloping in along before Christmas ooh ooh I want the house on the first of Feb and they 'd come and they 'd see the house and they say yes I want it , want it , want it and it was plain that they were going to want it and we started to talk money , as soon as we 'd got the solid block of money I want one O two you er estate agent tells me I can get ninety seven between ninety five and ninety seven say they offer me ninety six |
3 | Maybe after you overcome the awkwardness of the first , or the second time , it 's really very easy . |
4 | ( 2 ) Choose a poem ( the same one as in exercise 1 if you like ) , and put the title after the first stanza , so that it is in the middle of the poem instead of at the beginning . |
5 | That this is rarely understood is a direct consequence of the combined influence of the state-centrist idea and the dependency thesis , both of which consistently confuse the power of the First World with the power of the TNCs , and the weakness of the Third World with the presumed weakness of its economic institutions . |
6 | If so what can we call the second zone if we consider the CBD as the first ? |
7 | If you have been away and the grass is long , just tip the grass in the first mowing , and lower the subsequent cuts gradually . |
8 | In chapter 3 , we examine the emergence of the first handheld CD-ROM systems and preview the first palmtop CD-I player , due for launch in 1992 . |
9 | Both parents and child operate within a system of mutuality where the behaviour of one produces effects on the other that in turn modify the behaviour of the first . |
10 | Digital Underground 's Freaky Deaky , Money B and Styleetronic DJ Fuze kick the ballistics in the first phase of their new incarnation . |
11 | That meeting , which could occur as early as two weeks ' time , will then declare at least a three-month gap in meetings to fulfil the Unionist precondition for talks and clear the way for the first of a three-stage set of inter-party and inter-government negotiations to prepare a new British-Irish Agreement . |
12 | Notice in the 1931 profile the effect of the First World War ( WWWWW ) on the male population and the drop in births ( XX ) due to the start of the 1925–35 depression . |
13 | For example there are echoes of colonial discourse in the way the boys make a distinction between the ‘ good blacks ’ ( who accept the verdict of the first , lost fight ) and the ‘ bad blacks ’ who cry foul and fight back , trying to reverse the verdict of a society which has made them permanent losers . |
14 | For older children , make goals at either end of the room out of chair legs and give the point to the first person to score . |
15 | As before , draw the yarn under the first needle in E position nearest to the knitting to prevent a hole . |
16 | Ockrent is still trying to tone down his screen actors — ‘ remember there 'll be twenty feet of grimace up there ’ — but he retains the keenness of a novice : ‘ You get the excitement of a first night every ten minutes . ’ |
17 | There are still those alive today in Zambia , Malawi and Uganda who remember the establishment of the first European boma in their area . |
18 | And know the place for the first time . |
19 | Characteristically he uses the imagery of song to point to the highest kind of contemplative experience of God : The Form unfolds a process of definition which comes full circle back to its beginning so that that can be understood in a new way : the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time . |
20 | I am sorry The Mozartean Players omit the repeat in the first movement of K542 , which is one of Mozart 's best Trios ' especially since there is plenty of room for it on the disc . |
21 | Held , allowing the appeals , that the Secretary of State was required to afford to a prisoner serving a mandatory life sentence the opportunity to submit in writing representations as to the period that prisoner should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence before the Secretary of State in the exercise of his power under section 61 of the Act of 1967 set the date of the first review of the prisoner 's sentence ; that , before giving the prisoner the opportunity to make representations , the Secretary of State was required to inform him of the period recommended by the judiciary as the period he should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence and of any other opinion expressed by the judiciary which had not been disclosed at the trial and would be relevant to the Secretary of State 's decision as to the appropriate period to be served for those purposes ; but that the Secretary of State was not obliged to adopt that judicial view or , if he departed from it , to give reasons for doing so , and that he was entitled to delegate his powers for that purpose to a junior minister within the Home Department ; and that , accordingly , the decisions made by the Secretary of State as to the length of the period each of the applicants should serve before the date of the first review of their sentences should be quashed and that each applicant should be given the opportunity to make written representations after he had been informed of the judicial opinion regarding the period he should serve before review ( post , pp. 963B–C , 969A–C , 973F–H , 974A–B , 977B–D , 979C–F , 980E–G , 981F–G , 983C–D , 984C–E , 985B–C , 986H — 987A , F–G , 988C–E , G–H , 989B–C , D–E , 991B–C , 992F–H , 993B–E , F–G ) . |
22 | In form and style they set the pattern for the first generation of purpose-built station buildings . |
23 | This time compare the hiss in the first sentence with what you feel and see in the second . |
24 | As we fast approach the end of the first section of the calendar , it is time to gather information for the July — December section . |
25 | Articles B and N define the Treaty as the first of a series , the beginning of a process . |
26 | Newmark ( 1966 ) claims that this causes the learners to fall back on first language rules , i.e. they use the syntax of the first to speak the second . |
27 | The second sentence will therefore in all probability use the material of the first . |
28 | Use the graft for the first two or three feet ( 60 to 90 centimetres ) of the hole and thereafter use the long spade . |
29 | L'Egisto ( 1643 ) has an unusual number of duets , ‘ arias ’ for two persons , like those with which the shepherd and shepherdess lovers greet the dawn in the first two scenes ; in ‘ Musici della selva ’ , for instance , each melodious strophe ( freely imitated in the two violin parts ) climaxes in seven bars of recitative . |
30 | To this end , some computers provide " reverse " or " inverted " subtract and divide , which ( respectively ) subtract the first from the second operand and divide the second by the first operand . |