Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [to-vb] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Constant vigilance is essential , but undergraduates have little opportunity to gain first hand experience of infectious diseases during their hospital training . |
| 2 | Mr Yeltsin is a successful career communist who fought his way up through the construction-industry bureaucracy to become first secretary of Sverdlovsk , his home town and one of the largest cities in the Soviet Union . |
| 3 | He wanted to get on with the job of examining the clothes and , he hoped , identifying the body , but he had another job to do first — to call on the River Police and give them such facts as he had . |
| 4 | Erm market demand will take the easier site to develop first . |
| 5 | ‘ But I have a few things to do first . |
| 6 | But there were a few hurdles to jump first . |
| 7 | It is touching but rather embarrassing that after the film the rest of the people waited for the foreign quests to leave first , and clapped us when we went out . |
| 8 | Education Minister Jeremy Hanley paid a visit recently to Bangor Girls ' High School to see first hand this technology in action . |
| 9 | The language of the novel makes use of this cliché to demonstrate first that there is a profound ambiguity in the social construction of femininity according to which women are passive but at the same time subversive of the binary distinction which so construes them , and second that all people , male and female , are condemned to being at least partially the product of the language of others . |
| 10 | Before he could speak , the lights changed and out of innate respect Jack remained stationary , waiting for his once and future King to go first . |
| 11 | ‘ You and I have some serious talking to do first , Miss Lea . ’ |
| 12 | He even managed to get an extension of the unpopular excise to cover first wine , then alchohol generally . |
| 13 | Right , I think it 's the left turn to go first . |
| 14 | As the last in , Peter Wilson becomes the natural choice to go first . |
| 15 | Twenty children from St. Denis ' Primary School will receive First Holy Communion on Sunday , 13th June , the Feast of Corpus Christi ( The Body and Blood of Christ ) , a memorable day to receive First Holy Communion . |
| 16 | Once more on the fringes of the court , he was involved in fruitless attempts to reconcile first John Maitland , first Duke of Lauderdale [ q.v. ] , and then Thomas Osborne , first Earl of Danby [ q.v. ] , with Shaftesbury in 1676 and 1677 . |
| 17 | The circumstances of a particular case may oblige the partners as a matter of good faith to proceed first by way of warning as to future conduct or to offer a personal hearing to the offending partner , but few general rules can be laid down in this respect . |
| 18 | They are returning the stare in the hope of forcing the powerful Serbs to blink first and let them leave . |
| 19 | The techniques involved are quite simple , although it is a good idea to practise first with spare icing if you are unused to handling icing and piping bags . |
| 20 | Others are less sanguine than Blalock , arguing that if quantification in social research is to proceed , there are some very fundamental problems to resolve first , not least describing accurately and effectively the properties of social phenomena . |
| 21 | I had one job to do first thing in the morning — to ring Sir Geoffrey Gillington and ask him to arrange for the manager of the Upper Thames Street branch of the bank to receive Miss Macdonald when she called , and to keep her letter for me . |
| 22 | We believe on reflection that our supporters will recognize that our action has been actuated by the one desire to maintain first class soccer in Northants . ’ |
| 23 | Eighteen-year-old James Buchanan from Derry pulled back a two minute deficit from the 32-length swim to finish first after the 32km cycle , recording the fastest bike split of 48 minutes 23 seconds . |
| 24 | SUNDERLAND produced a magnificent away performance to knock First Division West Ham out of the FA Cup last night and secure a money-spinning quarter-final tie . |
| 25 | Usually the ones at the bottom start to rot first , but they take a while to discover . |
| 26 | BNP is the obvious big bank to sell first . |
| 27 | Another liberal nationalist , Josep Maria Beal Benedico , received 15 votes to become First Syndic-General or president of the General Council . |
| 28 | This principle now has statutory approval in s1(2) and it is unlikely that courts will agree to adjourn care proceedings unless there are particularly compelling arguments for allowing the criminal trial to proceed first . |
| 29 | " What is it ? " or " What date is it ? " are not necessarily the best questions to ask first ( see Box 6 ) . |
| 30 | Automatic top-up with a ballcock will allow all water in a new pool to pass first through the Eradicator . |