Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In SWDs and SSDs , it would be possible to accept the first definition almost unreservedly . |
| 2 | I was very interested to receive the first edition of Nonesuch and to read that its name was derived from a flower connected with the City of Bristol — as a member of a 17th-century dance team , I had only previously come across Nonesuch as the name of a dance . |
| 3 | Another point to be remembered in this connection is that an examiner is much more willing to give the first 50 per cent . |
| 4 | An Oshkosh steamer won a 232 km ( 201 miles ) race from Green Bay to Madison , Wisconsin in 1878 but the French claim the first real race for automobiles was the 31 km ( 19.3 miles ) race from Saint-James , Paris , along the Seine , to Neuilly in 1887 . |
| 5 | If you are prepared to pay the first £50 of all claims * yourself , you will be entitled to a premium discount which is normally one sixth of the new premium . |
| 6 | And , if you are prepared to pay the first £50 of any claim yourself , the basic rate is only £1.25 per £1,000 . |
| 7 | But , if you are prepared to pay the first £50 of any claim yourself , you will be entitled to a discount — normally 50p per £1,000 of insurance . |
| 8 | If you are prepared to pay the first £50 of all claims yourself , you will be entitled to a discount on your premium . |
| 9 | If you 're willing to pay the first £100 of any claim , your premium will fall by a further 10% . |
| 10 | WHILE the list is not empty take the first pair { x , y } from the remainder of the list and |
| 11 | We were both trembling with desire , afraid to make the first move . |
| 12 | Few do it better than Welshman Colin Jackson who was the pre-Games favourite to become the first Briton to win the Gold Medal in the discipline . |
| 13 | In 1920 Meccano Ltd. produced the first Hornby model trains , replicas of British trains with authentic colours and lettering used by the railway companies of the time . |
| 14 | The reason for this policy is that it is relatively easy to obtain the first few marks ( say 10 per cent ) for an examination question . |
| 15 | Traders said it was too early to price the first contracts . |
| 16 | It is nearly always impossible to raise the first quote . |
| 17 | They were quick to spot the first ripples of concern which have surged into a tide over the past year . |
| 18 | Any new student interested in joining the squad is welcome to attend the first training session on Wednesday September 8 , at the Dub playing fields , 2pm . |
| 19 | SACHIN Tendulkar , Yorkshire 's first overseas signing , is likely to miss the first five matches of the season because he is contracted to play in Bombay . |
| 20 | ‘ Oh , how nice to be able to refuse , when most of us are glad to accept the first offer ! |
| 21 | The Tyrone men have another important League fixture this afternoon — visitors Limavady inspired by the mercurial Des Curry are likely to provide the first searching test of Strabane 's ability to stay the course . |
| 22 | So many things happened over the last two rounds , it 's sometimes hard to remember the first two ; I just know it was Trevino versus Jacklin again in the third round and , of course , they were playing together once more . |
| 23 | Second they determine under what circumstances he is likely to answer the first question correctly . |
| 24 | There were a number of clues available to Robson : if West had still held the guarded queen of clubs he would almost certainly have kept and exited with his last spade ; if he had held both the king and queen of clubs he would have been equally likely to win the first club with the queen ; and , from what had happened so far , it looked as though West had started with more clubs than his partner . |
| 25 | THE Premier League yesterday came up with a peace formula that seemed likely to avert the first strike by English footballers . |
| 26 | Because there is.little , if any , evidence of mosaics of the late-third century in Britain , it has been customary to assign the first mosaics of this diagnostic Orpheus sequence to this period ( see above ) . |
| 27 | ( To a first approximation , one is likely to encounter the first type if f is a little higher than f and the second type if f is a little lower than f . ) |
| 28 | Ratification of the Maastricht deal is likely to prove the first real test of Mr Major 's new Government . |
| 29 | He will forsake china production schedules for fine tuning the first of many travel itineraries planned for ‘ my new career of retirement ’ , as he put it . |
| 30 | Although Ruth now knew that she would be on the moor throughout the coming winter , and perhaps if she was lucky see the first , early signs of spring , she knew she was now taking her farewell of its chief beauty . |