Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , Mr explained the reason for changing this but basically it 's to , to swap us again and that it will read that for one , that for ninety four to ninety eight the standard of grass cutting be seven occasions per year and the county surveyor in consultation with the Chairman be authorized to accept tenders from suitable contractors and the contracts be let to commence on the first of March nineteen ninety four . |
| 2 | Show how the " translate and test " instruction described on page 117 can be used to search for the first comma . |
| 3 | There are various clinics and self-help groups to support and encourage those wanting to kick the habit ; but a lot of determination will be needed to get through the first difficult weeks or months . |
| 4 | The titles of both poems suffered change , and The Ruined Cottage is to be found incorporated in the first Book of The Excursion , where Wordsworth looks back from 1814 to the year 1795 : |
| 5 | What it might be found to share with the first is a simultaneous avoidance and acting out of the ambivalence which constitutes subordination , and a pushing of that ambivalence to the point of transgressive insight and possibly reinscribed escape . |
| 6 | ( ii ) In redrafting their work they should be encouraged to think of the first draft as tentative so that they are prepared to rethink their whole approach in the light of their own critical appraisal or of their discussions with their peers or teacher . |
| 7 | Conversely , if the rent is payable quarterly in arrear the term will be taken to begin at the first moment of 26 March , so that the last payment of rent will fall due on the last day of the term rather than the day after its expiry by effluxion of time . |
| 8 | Therefore , as long as for the sinusoidal component of lowest frequency present in the first term on the right-hand side of equation ( 10.45 ) can be neglected compared with the first term on the left-hand side . |
| 9 | In the autumn of 1870 " a Diamond Lamp with oil " was purchased and it was " to be kept burning for the first two nights after the receipt of papers and Mr John Slater was granted " the use of the Reading Room for one night in the week to have exercises in music . " |