Example sentences of "be [to-vb] the first [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either you consider that the County Farms are playing a role set down by law and supported over the years of an , which no other authority and no other body in the country can provide , and which is a socially valuable role , and that is to provide the first step in farming , and clearly they do . |
| 2 | A simple proof is to cross the first fingers of your two hands , one at 30 inch range , the other at 15 inches . |
| 3 | A sensible compromise is to use the first method for longer photo-stories and to add a sticky label to the photograph giving outline details and the source and to use the second method for short captions . |
| 4 | The unprimed will not necessarily be diagonal as it should be if it is to satisfy the first part of eqn ( 6.16 ) . |
| 5 | a subject committee is in place to assist the development of the initiative and the intention is to have the first cohort of students enter the programme in Autumn 1993 . |
| 6 | Indeed , to combine a noun with a verb , he says , ‘ is to take the first step toward narrative ’ ( 1969 : 84 ) . |
| 7 | Move the cursor onto the first letter of the word which is to become the first letter of the new paragraph . |
| 8 | The Open Software Foundation is to reveal the first snapshot of its Distributed Management Environment architecture after its members meeting in Munich on the 13th . |
| 9 | The list is not definitive and must be adapted to the circumstances : ( 1 ) What is the balance sheet date and , if appropriate , what period is the profit and loss account to cover ? ( 2 ) Who is to prepare the first draft of the completion accounts ? ( 3 ) On what basis are the accounts to be prepared and what form are they to take ? ( 4 ) What is the mechanism for the other party to agree or dispute the draft accounts ? ( 5 ) What if the parties can not agree ? |
| 10 | Moxon 's first revised plan was to continue the first innings on 317 for seven but he then decided to declare in an attempt to bowl out Somerset twice . |
| 11 | The decision was to pursue the first option with some changes to current legislation : stronger investigative powers for the Director General of Fair Trading ; permitting the Director General to accept enforceable undertakings from companies before an investigation under the Competition Act , or in lieu of a monopoly reference under the Fair Trading Act ; and scope for interim orders under the Competition Act to prohibit specific activities by a firm where there is a risk of serious damage to a competitor , supplier , or customer during the period of the MMC's investigation . |
| 12 | She had brought a case for legal compensation for her dead children 's lives and for her own suffering and one of her few recorded public utterances was to call the first offer of compensation " pitiful " . |
| 13 | In June 1788 Charles Vial , the Frenchman who was to become the first Professor of the London Veterinary College in 1791 , arrived in England with letters of introduction from Pierre-Marie Auguste Broussonet ( 1761–1807 ) to Sir Joseph Banks PRS ( 1743–1820 ) , Samuel Foart Simmons MD , FRS ( 1750–1813 ) and Dr P.D . |
| 14 | As a result the IDA began what was to become the first step in the desperate local search for a toxic dump site . |