Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [art] first " in BNC.
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1 | But please hurry — remember , you have just 14 days to qualify for a chance to add the £15,000 Bonus to the First Prize … and win a grand total of £125,000 ! |
2 | It will be the prelude to the first election entirely focused on the record of the Government — and its all-mighty leader . |
3 | The Report 's recommendations were approved in principle by the European Community ( EC ) in 1971 and , as a prelude to the first stage , central banks were invited to restrict fluctuations in their currencies around the existing par values . |
4 | One common reply to the first two sceptical arguments is to say that we have no reason to worry ourselves about them . |
5 | It must therefore be stated in reply to the first part of the second question that the term ‘ matters relating to tort , delict or quasi-delict ’ within the meaning of article 5(3) of the Convention must be regarded as an independent concept covering all actions which seek to establish the liability of a defendant and which are not related to a ‘ contract ’ within the meaning of article 5(1) . |
6 | More than 5,000 Swindon fans have signed a petition calling on the sports governing body to return the club to the first flight , replacing another side which has already pulled out of the league . |
7 | He took the club to the first round of the FA Cup seven times . |
8 | First , there had been the challenge posed by the calls for an international working-class opposition to the First World War . |
9 | Bourgeois literature was unequivocally condemned on three counts : first , for its failure to voice opposition to the First World War , a failure in other words to disclose the true reality of the war as an imperialist struggle ; secondly , for its refusal to offer an accurate depiction of the Soviet revolution , a failure explained as the cowardly refusal of the bourgeois writer to disclose the deepening crisis of capitalism after 1929 , a crisis highlighted by the success of the five year plan in the Soviet Union ; finally , for its refusal to face up to the growing threat of fascism . |
10 | The Lancet 's sustained opposition to the first women doctors , the ‘ advance guard of the Amazonian army ’ as it dubbed them , was argued on the grounds that young ladies would be rendered indelicate , and by implication immoral , by attending lectures and dissections on human anatomy and pathology . |
11 | In 1895 Bridgeman married Caroline , elder daughter of Cecil Parker , land agent to the first Duke of Westminster , and second son of Thomas Wolstenholme , sixth Earl of Macclesfield . |
12 | Motivated by the lure of the finish , the riot police team ploughed through 40 miles of mangrove swamp to the first sight of the Pacific Ocean at Porto Juminez . |
13 | When Dulé and his companions regained the beach , they were so stunned and wearied by the water and the flames , the howling and frantic clangour of their rout , that they dragged themselves and their boat to the first cover they could find , and lay face down against the earth ; they could sense it trembling as if it were an animal alive beneath them . |
14 | Intel Corp has put off first deliveries of the P5 microprocessor to the first quarter of next year from the fourth quarter this year , but says that the move has not affected progress on the follow-on P6 , which it had said would start sampling as soon as the fourth quarter of next year , suggesting it will come very hot on the heels of the P5 . |
15 | The general entry requirements for entry to a first degree course ( see page 51 ) . |
16 | The general entry requirements for entry to a first degree course ( see page 51 ) . |
17 | The UKCC insists that any second level nurse seeking entry to a first level part of the register must successfully complete an examination of the same standard as that required for students undertaking a three year first level nursing preparation . |
18 | Practice varies from faculty to faculty : for example , mostfaculties will accept SCOTVEC modules when these are offered in combination with other school-leaving qualifications ; some will make offers on the basis of Ordinary or Higher National Certificates or Diplomas for entry to the first year of study , while the Faculty of Science and Engineering will in appropriate circumstances consider such qualifications as a basis for entry to the second year . |
19 | The stronger tetanus to S2 ( first filled arrow ) produced PTP and robust LTP , but there was no transfer of the effect to the first input ( test shocks to S1 were out of phase with the high-frequency bursts to S2 ) , demonstrating the input-specificity of LTP . |
20 | Furthermore , legislation expressly intended to give effect to the first stage of Economic and Monetary Union has already been enacted , following the decision of the European Council in Madrid in June 1989 that that stage should begin on 1 July 1990 . |
21 | At the end of the sequence , you may choose to close it with a fade out , but a straight cut to the first shot of the next sequence might be more brisk and businesslike . |
22 | Lovat had gone , probably tied to a stretcher , placed on a jeep and taken at full speed to the First Aid post . |
23 | There were about 100 of them on Sunday 's evening flight from Bucharest to Tel Aviv , unmistakably Soviet with their fur hats , cheap wintry clothes and suitcases and quiet , mechanical submission to the first taste of Israeli bureaucracy . |
24 | Helen and Tony were in the kitchen with the rest of the family when she reached home , all excitedly planning to bring forward the wedding to the first Saturday in October . |
25 | The death- like opening phrase is played steadily , with blanched tone and no vibrato , the viola exactly judged in counterpoint to the first violin . |
26 | Behind him , the horses moved to a trot , and he could feel the wariness giving way to disbelief , and the disbelief to the first stirrings of a dazed expectancy . |
27 | THE new government had to draft in a hasty replacement to lead its delegation to the first annual meeting of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development following the election defeat of overseas development minister Lynda Chalker . |
28 | There were no significant differences in oestradiol by age from 4 days before menstruation to the first day . |
29 | Noting further that unc and applying Gauss 's theorem to the first term in the bracket we get |
30 | RESTORE on its own resets the data pointer to the first data item in the program . |