Example sentences of "we [modal v] [verb] the first [num] " in BNC.
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1 | Note that unc and unc can not both be zero , or A would be singular and R would not exist ; similarly for unc We choose a nonzero element from these four -say unc and then unc The last step is not arbitrary : we must exclude the first three rows ( containing units ) , so that the only choice for pivot in the next step is D44 , which can not be zero . |
2 | In this second category we might place the first seventeen sonnets , with their persuasion to marriage , a sequence that may in fact draw some of its arguments and images from a model epistle , Erasmus 's Encomium Matrimonii , Englished by Sir Thomas Wilson as An Epistle to perswade a yong Gentleman to mariage , devised by Erasmus , in the behalfe of his freend . |
3 | In any case , we would recommend the first two categories be combined to prevent the separation of landscape and nature conservation criteria . |
4 | Even if we rejected integrity and based our political activity only on fairness , justice , and procedural due process , we would find the first two virtues sometimes pulling in opposite directions . |
5 | We will give the first 100 people who apply a FREE copy of our broadsheet on " Pesticides : Waging War on our Countryside " . |
6 | We will have the first sevens tournament in Prague in August and we hope to be able to organise sevens competitions before top soccer matches . |
7 | So we can do the first two . |
8 | We can do the first two and then |
9 | Note that here the submatrix unc is unc and we can take the first two columns as linearly independent ; the third is obtained by subtracting half the first from the second . |