Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Sept. 18 Isidore Mvouba was dismissed as Minister of Trade and Commerce after he failed to attend the first meeting of the Cabinet , attending instead a meeting of his own party , the ( formerly ruling ) Congolese Labour Party ( PCT ) . |
| 2 | No one , of course , would want to compare the first week of school term with the outbreak of a world war , but we are at the beginning of a New Year and a gateway to the future . |
| 3 | As soon as Leonard learned to talk he was taught to recite the first words of the Shema , the ‘ creed ’ of Judaism which originated on Sinai with Moses and is recited daily : |
| 4 | What is he going to say when he discovers that he is expected to transmit the first report from an advisory unit in the history of government to include an account of the Director 's domestic arrangements ? |
| 5 | Well , we 're going to try to provide the first steps towards uniformity . |
| 6 | The Insured Person has to bear the first £25 of each and every claim , except in respect of claims for deposits only where the Insured Person has to bear the first £10 of each and every claim . |
| 7 | The Insured Person has to bear the first £25 of each and every claim , except in respect of claims for deposits only where the Insured Person has to bear the first £10 of each and every claim . |
| 8 | The Insured Person has to bear the first £25 of each and every claim . |
| 9 | The Insured Person has to bear the first £25 of each and every claim . |
| 10 | The Insured Person has to bear the first £25 of each and every claim . |
| 11 | If I told you I want to install the first tube of the bridge next March or thereabouts , what 'd you say ? ’ |
| 12 | While remaining guarded about the exact type of operation Shadowfax is considering , the partners are currently looking at sites and expect to open the first one within the year . |
| 13 | Everyone wants to win the First Divisiocn championship . |
| 14 | They were working up to the crucial ( as it was then ) question of how and why she had come to identify the first body as Uncle Mossycop 's . |
| 15 | This feature was designed to cover the first flights of three Spitfires , during the time of its production that statistic changed to four ! |
| 16 | The principles and example of the Revolution helped to inspire the first successful slave revolt in the Caribbean in Haiti , as well as the political independence movements of South America . |
| 17 | Let us note , too , that coming as Marx did to English economics after he had studied Hegel 's philosophy of history , he could come with a mind predisposed to fit the first into a grand dialectical scheme such as the second propounded . |
| 18 | You probably want to use the first few rows of the spreadsheet for a general title plus notes to yourself about the date of creation and date of most recent revision so enter the headings you want in row 9 of the spreadsheet using short labels but ones that you will find meaningful in the reports you will want to create later on . |
| 19 | We 're going to continue with this objective in the coming months in this , the third series , but before we get totally immersed I want to use the first three programmes to stand back to take a more general look at what universities are about today . |
| 20 | She held the envelope to the light , squinting at it with one eye while she tried to read the first paragraph . |
| 21 | " The problem was he omitted to divorce the first wife . |
| 22 | The official unions will have to compete directly with Solidarity for members , so they want to land the first blows . |
| 23 | That is the very year that Manchester , spearheaded by Anne , want to host the first Olympics of the new century . |
| 24 | With the dam wall now standing at 57 metres , this year 's monsoon is expected to flood the first few villages . |
| 25 | The chance of the monkey happening to get the first letter — M — right is therefore 1 in 27 . |
| 26 | Year II of the core subjects is designed to develop the first year taxonomy of skills at a problem-solving and decisional level and to provide an integrative view of the office environment . |
| 27 | E even so she has to pay the first something or other you , as one does in a claim |
| 28 | ERS-1 is expected to return the first quantitive data on these processes at the poles . |
| 29 | Sweden tried to take the first initiative only two days after the ending of the Maudling negotiations , inviting other states to send representatives to Stockholm to discuss how their trade policies might be better coordinated . |
| 30 | GOVERNORS at Colchester County High School have voted to take the first steps on the road to opting out . |