Example sentences of "to the [noun] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another building , similar to the annexe in the first phase was erected in the compound adjacent to its end wall . |
| 2 | Although Apple is using emulation techniques to get other parts of its Mac system over to PowerPC ( UX No 434 ) , its ultimate goal must be to have everything running native on the IBM/Motorola CPU to extract maximum performance benefits , the whole point of moving to the architecture in the first place . |
| 3 | Although Apple is using emulation techniques to get other parts of its Mac system over to PowerPC , its ultimate goal must be to have everything running native on the IBM-Motorola CPU to extract maximum performance benefits , which was the whole point of moving to the architecture in the first place . |
| 4 | One third of the disputes brought to the centre in the first year of operation could not be resolved because the ‘ other side ‘ would not agree to meet , although home visits have proved to be a way of overcoming this hurdle . |
| 5 | Enter by the porter 's lodge ; if no one is there go to the door in the first courtyard on the left and someone is bound to come to your aid . |
| 6 | Mr Salmond has put down a Commons motion condemning the Budget changes in the oil taxation regime , which he says will cost the industry £500 million more in revenue to the exchequer in the first year . |
| 7 | It is a weakness in Dunn 's useful book Baptism in the Holy Spirit that he sweeps aside these dozen or so references to the Spirit in the first three chapters of Luke and insists that the kingdom did not come until the baptism of Jesus . |
| 8 | If , however , we wish to prove the existence of ‘ the back of ’ something using quite different criteria of testimony and disallowing all those activities which gave rise to the concept in the first place , then perhaps our proof of the uncertainty of the existence of backs will be less powerful than has been imagined . |
| 9 | You can add one of these to the litter in the first instance , as it may encourage your puppy to relieve itself here . |
| 10 | The part of Joy Davidman is very well played by Kay Gallie though it is difficult to take to the character in the first act of the play . |
| 11 | Mental origin refers to that combination of mental and social dynamics , particular to the individual , that gives rise to the vision in the first place . |
| 12 | In addition to this , there is a married couples 's allowance which is usually paid to the man in the first instance . |
| 13 | In taking this positive stance , it is important that the counsellor tries to emphasize the personal strengths that are available to combat the problem , and not the weaknesses which led to the problem in the first place . |
| 14 | This , however , depends on what brought the newcomers to the village in the first place . |
| 15 | Herzen came across even younger Jewish children on their way to the army in the first half of the 1830s . |
| 16 | Do think this is , probably why , wh he went to the front in the First World War , what was it , the Prime Minister shouted out , do n't mind you being killed , but I do n't want you being taken prisoner , he co he could n't , you know , had n't got enough courage to hold out . |
| 17 | To get to the Bungles in the first place needs a certain pioneering spirit as it involves a seven-hour drive from Kununurra , and the last three are over rough terrain that can be tackled only by four-wheel-drive vehicles . |
| 18 | Of course , people might point to the generals in the First World War and say , rightly , that they were a bunch of ancient Blimps . |
| 19 | Quite apart from introducing the problem of just how you get the document to the bureau in the first place ( we know of people who have extra hard disks for just this purpose ) the time it takes to run such a document through an imagesetter can be significant in the extreme . |
| 20 | Apart from the broad range of socio-economic processes which have brought oilrelated personnel to the area in the first place ( which can not be dealt with here ) , there are political issues in Shetland which have had a most direct bearing on the emergence of the divisions . |
| 21 | The Minister welcomed the initiative already shown by the Tadchester Industrial Development Centre in attracting five new companies and 600 jobs to the area in the first four weeks of the scheme . |
| 22 | This was much more than in the same period of 1973–75 , slightly more than in 1980 and similar to the decline in the first nine months of the 1981–82 recession . |
| 23 | I would n't have come to the office in the first place if you had n't asked me . ’ |
| 24 | Those who saw him freeze into immobility against Mike Tyson before crashing to the canvas in the first round in July 1990 believe they are seeing now a repeat of the same symptoms . |
| 25 | Grove , a 15-1 longshot , was dropped to the canvas in the first round by a crunching left hook but got up , and danced and jabbed his way to the distance against the hard-hitting Nelson . |
| 26 | Unless she crawled to the edge of the embankment — I suppose it 's possible , but she ca n't have walked to the spot in the first place . ’ |
| 27 | The newly-flooded margins will be attractive to the fish in the first few days , until the sudden influx of size ten waders make them wary . |
| 28 | In evidence presented to the commission in the first few months , details were given of irregularities in the handling and documentation in Antigua of the shipment of arms from Israel and their discovery in Colombia . |
| 29 | The probability of the ‘ top ’ failure occurring is the sum of the values assigned to the events in the first level , and we can compute this if there are sufficient failure data to determine the latter directly ; if not then the analysis must proceed to lower levels of the tree . |
| 30 | She had forgotten why she had come down to the garden in the first place . |