Example sentences of "be [verb] [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | To do that operation , you are expected to wait until the first of the month to start planning the month . |
| 2 | However , there has been very little success with captive breeding and few of the cubs which are born survive past the first year . |
| 3 | If he does this then a sociological perspective has been brought to bear on the first idea and the researcher is ready to go on to the next step , which will be one of limiting his ideas to a feasible scheme of work . |
| 4 | CUMMINS Engine , the U.S. diesel engine maker with a plant in Darlington , claims it should be returning to profit in the first quarter of this year . |
| 5 | Erm , Mr explained the reason for changing this but basically it 's to , to swap us again and that it will read that for one , that for ninety four to ninety eight the standard of grass cutting be seven occasions per year and the county surveyor in consultation with the Chairman be authorized to accept tenders from suitable contractors and the contracts be let to commence on the first of March nineteen ninety four . |
| 6 | Show how the " translate and test " instruction described on page 117 can be used to search for the first comma . |
| 7 | There are various clinics and self-help groups to support and encourage those wanting to kick the habit ; but a lot of determination will be needed to get through the first difficult weeks or months . |
| 8 | erm and with this money that I 'm going to earn in the first six weeks and then possibly erm getting a job while I 'm doing the correspondence course erm you know even if it 's just bar work and especially |
| 9 | I 'm going to write about the first time I met G.P. |
| 10 | They should be playing the Beatles or the Rolling Stones , and they should n't be getting married in the first place — modern people did n't . |
| 11 | The titles of both poems suffered change , and The Ruined Cottage is to be found incorporated in the first Book of The Excursion , where Wordsworth looks back from 1814 to the year 1795 : |
| 12 | What it might be found to share with the first is a simultaneous avoidance and acting out of the ambivalence which constitutes subordination , and a pushing of that ambivalence to the point of transgressive insight and possibly reinscribed escape . |
| 13 | ( ii ) In redrafting their work they should be encouraged to think of the first draft as tentative so that they are prepared to rethink their whole approach in the light of their own critical appraisal or of their discussions with their peers or teacher . |
| 14 | Conversely , if the rent is payable quarterly in arrear the term will be taken to begin at the first moment of 26 March , so that the last payment of rent will fall due on the last day of the term rather than the day after its expiry by effluxion of time . |
| 15 | Therefore , as long as for the sinusoidal component of lowest frequency present in the first term on the right-hand side of equation ( 10.45 ) can be neglected compared with the first term on the left-hand side . |
| 16 | In the autumn of 1870 " a Diamond Lamp with oil " was purchased and it was " to be kept burning for the first two nights after the receipt of papers and Mr John Slater was granted " the use of the Reading Room for one night in the week to have exercises in music . " |
| 17 | Records are filed according to the first letter of the surname and then in the order of the first letter of the Christian name , for example : |
| 18 | This makes it important to use the airbrakes to ensure that you cross the upwind boundary very low as though you were attempting to land in the first part of the field . |
| 19 | THREE appeal court judges were asked to rule for the first time yesterday that parents could sue doctors for negligence over the loss of a child though the fatal injuries had been suffered before birth . |
| 20 | The sub-contract was for the sale , not merely of similar goods , but of the very same goods as were to lie supplied under the first contract . |
| 21 | Priests were allowed to vote for the first time since the 1920s , due to the repeal of anti-clerical legislation in January [ see p. 38758 ] . |
| 22 | Though they 've slipped up lately , there is still hope that the Premier League will end up in the hands of the sort of club that the likes of Arsenal , Everton and Manchester United were trying to exclude in the first place . |
| 23 | SANDHURST SHIELD holders Orrell Red Triangle were sent crashing in the first round of this year 's competition in the Southport Cricket League . |
| 24 | The volume of business with overseas customers improved in the fourth quarter of 1991 and the recovery is expected to continue into the first quarter of this year . |
| 25 | To understand how compliance is secured requires in the first place an appreciation of the means by which pollution may be defined , identified , and raised as a matter requiring the intervention of the pollution control agency . |
| 26 | The end of the coding region is indicated by a U. Translation is shown initiating at the first methionine at nucleotide 76 . |
| 27 | InterBase 3.2 with support for Japanese , including Kanji and Kana , is scheduled to ship in the first half of next year . |
| 28 | Their call is timed to coincide with the first European Day for disabled people . |
| 29 | Their call is timed to coincide with the first European Day for disabled people . |
| 30 | The former Rangers striker has been recalled to the squad to face in-form Chelsea in the Coca-Cola Cup tonight and is set to appear for the first time in two months . |