Example sentences of "we [modal v] [prep] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , now that it is necessary to identify the functions the judges are performing when they sit as visitors in cases which are concerned with the question whether people are fit and proper persons to become or remain barristers , we must for the first time examine their function in that context alone . |
| 2 | If we set the poem 's rubric , which informs us that we shall be reading a fabliau , on one side for the moment , we could in the first stanza be looking at a tail-rhyme romance — a type familiar in English literature from the fourteenth century . |
| 3 | ‘ We shall for the first time protect landscapes , not one of which has been scheduled , by designating key landscapes as Areas of Archaeological Importance . |
| 4 | Hence not all directions for a given link are permissible although we shall in the first instance assume that they are , that is , that a chain can pass through itself . |
| 5 | We will for the first time be able to see the new system work . |