Example sentences of "to be [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | That shows that both the president 's National Party ( NP ) and the ANC intend to be prepared for the first non-racial elections for a constituent assembly ; it is also a clear sign that both of them are sure that they can convince the other parties that the path they have laid down is the one to follow . |
| 2 | ‘ It is riveting stuff , especially to be treated to the first performance of a production that has attracted such rave reviews . |
| 3 | A decree issued on Sept. 16 stated that the profits of all wholly Omani-owned companies were to be taxed for the first time from the end of 1989 . |
| 4 | But if the terminal repeats explain how wandering members of the Alu family might get into a chromosome , what can explain how they came to be wandering in the first place ? |
| 5 | But it wo n't work unless your employees want to be empowered in the first place |
| 6 | Incredibly , the government take £3.50 through VAT from the production of each medal , or roughly twice what the charities get , even though it is due to their cruel neglect that the medals have to be struck in the first place . |
| 7 | Conference papers can be notoriously esoteric and dull as a collection and I would not claim to be gripped from the first page to the last . |
| 8 | The immediate post-war period again provided the optimism that had existed in 1920 , and the farm worker appeared to be poised for the first time to achieve equality of pay and status with workers in other industries . |
| 9 | There is , however , a more fundamental reason why an attempt to perceive a structure within a given set of phenomena may fail ; it may be that there actually is no structure there to be perceived in the first place . |
| 10 | Tradesmen 's vans , builders lorries , furniture vans ( brought by night , twelve to twenty-five at a time , ) followed into the Road Vehicle Shop gate , their mechanical condition as varied as their outward appearance , to be fitted in the first place with a double wooden box lined with pebbles — a Heath-Robinson contraption , but resistant to machine-gun fire at close range . |
| 11 | Bargains began to be made for the first time , and it became readily apparent to the men that whatever rights they thought they had lost , had been transposed by an orderly system which benefited them as well as the Mineral Lord . |
| 12 | The most powerful potential weapon in Parliament 's hands remains its control over clauses enabling regulations to be made in the first place . |
| 13 | Firstly , how did this extraordinary mistake came to be made in the first instance by the Department of Transport . |
| 14 | Alum pot itself could not fail to be noticed by the first settlers in the district , its yawning gulf constituting an obvious danger to both man and beast ; in the course of time , a wall was built around it and trees planted to indicate its position . |
| 15 | With the Second Ballot the winning candidate must poll more than half the votes to be elected at the first ballot . |
| 16 | In the case of a licensing board for a district or division of a district , the members were to be elected at the first meeting of the district council after its ordinary election in 1977 and thereafter after every ordinary election . |
| 17 | The new regulations , requiring a two-thirds majority in both houses of parliament , were expected to be enacted in the first half of 1993 and would bring German immigration and asylum provisions broadly in line with those of other West European countries . |
| 18 | ‘ Fifteen puppies to be done with the first injection . |
| 19 | It was said to have two sets of strings only , at 8' pitch , and , on the evidence of its appearance , it was to be dated to the first quarter of the 18th century . |
| 20 | DeFreitas had been considered fortunate to be selected for the first Test , when he was left out of the original squad but leapfrogged Essex seamer Mark Ilott after Alan Igglesden pulled out injured on the eve of the game . |
| 21 | The US , which is paying about $4 million for each missile , rightly points out , and sometimes ruefully , that the nations of Western Europe asked for the weapon to be deployed in the first place . |
| 22 | Last year , the Chancellor broke from the simplified two-tier tax rate by introducing a 20p rate to be levied on the first £2,000 of taxable income . |
| 23 | Stephen Orgel discerns in the theatre of this time the fear that man 's superior development could be reversed — ‘ that men can turn into — or be turned into — women ; or perhaps more exactly , can be turned back into woman , losing the strength that enabled the male potential to be realized in the first place . ’ |
| 24 | The normal process , as seen during Innocent 's pontificate , was for messengers , often close confidants of the pope , but in minor offices , to be sent in the first instance — then to be followed by negotiators of the highest rank . |
| 25 | There were grandchildren to be met for the first time . |
| 26 | She had a violent impulse to summon Murphy and go at once to Trelorne and find Michael Swinton , and so strong was this inclination and the need to explain to him that she was personally so very Lyddy before she realized that such an action was only a perfect sequel in childish impetuosity to her former one of agreeing to be painted in the first place . |
| 27 | Eight months earlier he made an abortive attempt for the title , then held by the Frenchman Franck Nicotra , only to be stopped for the first time in his professional career . |
| 28 | Porter might wish to question how such groups with non-related SBUs came to be formed in the first place . |
| 29 | Magellan is to be ranked as the first navigator of ancient or modern times , and his voyage is the greatest single human achievement on the sea . |
| 30 | The second view would point to the fact that in reality it is the Prime Minister who , in setting the agenda for Cabinet discussion , decides what is to be discussed in the first place and consequently has power . |