Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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1 | These charges , and any interest payable on an overdraft , are calculated up to the first Friday in March , June , September and December , and deducted from your account 14 days later . |
2 | Employers constantly gnawed at the high level of wages which had been built up during the First World War . |
3 | Almost 2,000 knives and other blades have been handed in during the first fortnight of the month-long amnesty . |
4 | The plans for the dump are spelt out for the first time in evidence from the CEGB to the Sizewell inquiry , now in its fourth week . |
5 | Robert had been called up in the First Militia , as it was named , the beginning of National Service which was to continue until some years after the war ended . |
6 | ZERO SITS ON A swivel office chair and clicks on his Quadra 900 Macintosh PC with 240 megabytes of memory and a keyboard which he has remodelled to conform to his own idea of how a keyboard ‘ should have been laid out in the first place ’ . |
7 | The rules which must be followed in arranging and conducting the election are set out in the first schedule to the 1983 Act as amended . |
8 | And the person who had sorted it together at Birmingham made sure that the next stop it was at , the waggons would be at the back end to leave in that town and this is what my father was doing by er er shunting as it was called , or making a train up to go from Nottingham to London , or some other place in the country , with up to fifty or sixty trucks behind it and they did n't want the trucks next to the engine to be dropped off at the first place and having to shove and push about in their marshalling yard . |
9 | Accurate pictures could now be built up for the first time as to how tigers spent their day , how often they killed , their associations with other tigers and how the young animals found and established their own home ranges . |
10 | He notes that any loss of earnings can usually be made up during the first ten years of work . |
11 | A legally binding agreement to implement this 14-page political declaration was scheduled to be drawn up in the first half of 1992 . |
12 | To make the needle fit the groove , the disc contained abrasive material , so the tip would be ground down during the first two or three revolutions . |
13 | The Army and Navy have moved significantly down the path towards contracting out and have very few contracts left to be put out for the first time . |
14 | Perhaps she was being a complete fool helping Craig Grenfell , was she allowing herself to be taken in by the first handsome man to come into her life ? |
15 | Red and white signs , showing an izard 's head , are the only indication that you are entering it , the izard being a sort of chamois native to the Pyrenees which is now doing well there again after having earlier been hunted almost out of existence — its survival has been put down to the First World War , when men turned to killing one another and the animals had an armistice which enabled them to breed again . |
16 | As a climax , you could arrange for some of the room lights to be switched off one by one before the tree-lights are switched on for the first time ( test them first ! ) . |
17 | Rumour had it that Sir Hector 's influence was the only reason George had been taken on in the first place . |
18 | They should never have been taken on in the first place , any bet , that our , our problem should never have been taken on in the first place . |
19 | They should never have been taken on in the first place , any bet , that our , our problem should never have been taken on in the first place . |
20 | A HUNDRED in your first innings of the season is sweet , and especially so if it 's your team 's third one-day match , and you 've been left out of the first two because you are not regarded as a one-day player . |
21 | FREE toothbrushes are being given out to the first 400 visitors to an exhibition encouraging people to brush up on dental hygiene . |
22 | We 're quite good at rearing them these days but even so their chances are hugely reduced by being picked up in the first place |
23 | Further extensive trials were carried out before the first Hip and Thigh Diet was published in 1988 . |
24 | Analyses of covariance were carried out in the first study , and t tests were used in the second study . |
25 | In Nottinghamshire no less than 164,508 ‘ presumed pickets ’ were turned back during the first 27 weeks of the strike ’ ( Wallington , 1985 : 154 ) . |
26 | But the figures are quite clear that there are benefits of having in-house erm erm , fields that can compete against the private sector for county council work , and the fear , and the reason why they were set up in the first place , to make sure that you could n't have outside erm , er or private organisations setting up cartels to basically screw the local government down , and charge whatever price they want and con us through and through . |
27 | ( Proposal document ) These project objectives were set out in the first project report ( Taylor , 1983 ) and are quoted in Section 2.1 . |
28 | In a million bathrooms , pores breathed sighs of relief as the trowelled-on layers of moisturiser , foundation , blusher , shaper , powder , eye liner , eye shadow , mascara , lashes , and lipstick were scraped off for the first time in decades . |
29 | And when the offices of the Chief Justices of the Forest were finally abolished by statute in 1817 , their powers and duties also were taken over by the First Commissioner . |
30 | A gene ca n't affect the wiring up of a brain unless there is a brain being wired up in the first place . |