Example sentences of "first [noun sg] [be] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The first modification is to respecify the relative price term in the supply function as and allow a similar term to influence demand ; the second is to respecify the major influence on aggregate demand as where is the expectation of the change in the money stock between periods t and t + 1 .
2 A first move is to abolish the national insurance ceiling on contribution .
3 The first move was to liquidate the federal structure and instal a centralised system .
4 My first band was called The Original Cosmic Egg and we just did Hawkwind and Sex Pistols covers .
5 Our first aim was to examine the lexical access components of a number of existing speech recognition systems .
6 It 's first consequence is to deflate the general aggregate demand of the population .
7 Your first title was indented the same amount as your first title .
8 On most excavations , the first operation is to remove the modern deposits covering the archaeological levels .
9 Marrying a first cousin was considered the best possible arrangement .
10 ‘ The first objective is to double the existing market share , to have more than 10 per cent .
11 The agent 's first objective is to obtain the best possible price for his client and secondly , if possible , to generate the opportunity to market the completed units .
12 They say that before the first human was born the seven celestial sisters — the Nymphs of the Pleiades — using their sarongs as wings , used to descend to a sacred pool in Bali to bathe naked in the waters of the world .
13 In a wheezing , faint voice , Wynne-Jones said , ‘ They would be reunited … body and soul … at the place of the deed to be done … the great battle … all quest legend is like this … first thing is to find the inner self … ’
14 The first stage is to draw the static torque/rotor position characteristics for each of the three phases .
15 The first step is to take the oldest product and plot the estimated annual revenue from it over the planning period as shown for product A ( Figure 2.1 ) .
16 The first step is to deflate the national income figures to eliminate the effects of the rise in prices .
17 The first step is to choose the appropriate collection ( or ‘ basket ’ ) of goods and services whose prices are to be included in the calculation .
18 The first step is to begin the pro-active search .
19 The Commission 's first step is to identify the relevant product and geographic markets in which the parties might be regarded as dominant .
20 The first step is to remove the top cover of the case .
21 My first step was to recognize the obvious , that the layers have to do with manager-subordinate relationships .
22 His first task was to give the new group a strategic thrust .
23 When he arrived his first task was to light the one and only office fire .
24 The first task was to halt the rapid North Korean advance , then the Un commander-in-chief , General MacArthur , launched a counter-attack , allied with a brilliant flanking movement made possible by an amphibious assault on Inchon .
25 Vietnam 's weakness was , he believed , endemic to the people and its society , and the first task was to remove the feudal structure so that Vietnam could emerge as a modern state .
26 The first task was to correct the public view that the product was more expensive than it actually was .
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