Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] to the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the parties are not confined to the first perspective . |
| 2 | If Childebert and Chlothar were indeed adding to the first sixty-five , or even the first seventy-eight , clauses of Lex Salica , then the first Merovingian code can be dated before 511 . |
| 3 | The answer to this second question is integrally related to the first . |
| 4 | Yet it is migration to and from rural areas that has been the main concern of rural geographers in the last century , and so attention is now turned to the first major theme of this chapter , rural population change . |
| 5 | These roads lead to that part of the old Chatham Royal Naval Dockyard which is now leased to the first defendant , Medway ( Chatham ) Dock Co . |
| 6 | For covalent compounds , a prefix is often added to the first and-or second name to indicate the ratio of atoms in the compound . |
| 7 | Elsewhere the 70 m ( 230 ft ) terrace is sometimes attributed to the first interglacial period . |
| 8 | The second issue , and it is closely related to the first , is whether the succession of images — and they succeed each other with alarming frequency — enables us not only to remember past events but to learn from our past mistakes . |
| 9 | The second reason is closely allied to the first . |
| 10 | the preparation of quite large amounts of text ( letters , job descriptions , contracts ) with a considerable amount of repetition of common material ; 2. the creation and maintenance of files containing a mass of details about people and their subsequent analysis to provide information in a wide variety of forms for many different purposes Both these activities can be considerably simplified and streamlined using computers Word processing systems are eminently suited to the first . |
| 11 | Adjuvant therapy was not given to the first 44 successfully treated patients . |
| 12 | Elected to the representative board ( 1879 ) which was to be responsible for the foundation of the British Dental Association , he was subsequently appointed to the first editorial committee of the Journal of the BDA , and was BDA president in 1884 . |