Example sentences of "be first [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To begin with , the first draft regulations were not received until July 1987 instead of March 1987 as had been first intimated by the DHSS . |
| 2 | Although the original bond rules state that transfers ‘ must have been first approved by the Club Committee ’ this appears never to have happened , although at some stage the rule was amended to apply only to ‘ non-member ’ transferees . |
| 3 | It was necessary to show that at least some of them might have been first acquired through the will , in order to satisfy a desire , or to relieve a disagreeable sensation . |
| 4 | Although caddying was in decline after 1950 ( the year trolleys are first recorded on the course ) , the Club considered engaging a new caddie master after his retirement , but it seems did not do so . |
| 5 | In the opening sequence of Le Cheval de Troie the workers are first seen in the countryside viewing the town of Villefranche , the site of their daily oppression , at a distance . |
| 6 | Words are first matched against the input on the basis of their syllable structure . |
| 7 | If the warren and burrow systems are first cleared in the autumn , subsequent work in the area on other systems is likely to lead to rabbits evicted from one set of burrows going to ground elsewhere . |
| 8 | When goods are delivered to the retailer they are first checked against the delivery note and entered in the stock records . |
| 9 | Most of the seminal papers which give rise to paradigm shifts , and the creation of new journals to publish new subjects or combinations of subjects , are first published in the core journal set for the earlier research front , and the clusters which define the new research front may not include the journal which first published the paper which led to its inception . |
| 10 | Glass sides are first marked with the specimen number of the sample and any ‘ way up ’ indications which have been preserved , using a diamond scribe near one edge of the obverse glass face . |
| 11 | An officially estimated 75 per cent of British children speak their mother tongue , which they hear at home , abysmally , and will , in the course of time , pass on to their own children , since , after all , languages are first learnt with the ears and not grammar books . |
| 12 | Because the new financial year is starting when the estimates are first submitted to the House , and final approval is ( then ) some months off , statutory authority for issues out of the Consolidated Fund to meet expenditure during this period is provided by a system of lump-sum votes on account . |
| 13 | Input signals are first coupled to the volume control VR1 via the d.c. blocking capacitor C1 . |
| 14 | These traps are large constructions of poles and wire netting which were first devised on the island of Heligoland , off the German coast in the North Sea . |
| 15 | In his first season , McKinnon will present two plays which were first seen at the Traverse Theatre , Edinburgh . |
| 16 | Those images were first seen in the catechisms , Bibles , books of hours , and hymnals used to convert the Indians and direct their worship . |
| 17 | This fanatical regard for esteemed works as they were first given to the public leads to intimidating variations in price . |
| 18 | When American troops were first sent to the Gulf Region after the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait , the reason given by the US for this deployment of troops was the protection of Saudi Arabia from an ‘ eventual invasion by Iraq ’ . |
| 19 | No Monday last , when the designs were first displayed to the public , it is believed that 10,000 persons visited the exhibition ; on Tuesday , when the crowd was somewhat less , 7,000 were present ; and on Wednesday the numbers again reached to 10,000 . |
| 20 | They were first displayed in the Circus Maximus and the Campus Martius by the Tiber . |
| 21 | They were first sighted in the Munich home of the Turkish art dealer Aydin Dikmen in 1983 . |
| 22 | The amendments , which were first noted in the Law Society Gazette of 6 May 1992 , came into force with effect from 1 June 1992 , that is at the same time the changes occasioned by the SAR and the ARR were effective ( Law Society bulletin No 7 provides full details ) . |
| 23 | Incomes policies were first adopted in the UK in the late 1940s but became a regular feature during the 1960s . |
| 24 | However , there are some themes which recur in the evidence of those we consulted and which were first sounded in the Bullock and Swann Reports . |
| 25 | These were first deployed to the Gulf 3 weeks before Operation Desert Storm , the war which started a year ago this Friday . |
| 26 | Almost 25 years after the troops were first deployed in the province their equipment , combat gear , training and role in the conflict has changed dramatically . |
| 27 | They were first assessed by the researchers , then — if eligible and in the action areas — they were passed to the development officers . |
| 28 | Trading standards officers were first alerted to the danger by someone who 'd just bought a mixer . |
| 29 | Parish registers are the best example of records that were first kept during the Tudor era and which are now invaluable sources for the genealogist . |
| 30 | The risks and benefits of HRT were first explained with the aims of the study . |