Example sentences of "[num ord] [to-vb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So who can be 1st to fill in the missing words ! ! |
| 2 | So who can be 1st to fill in the missing words ! ! |
| 3 | Women in Cheltenham have been among the first to try out the NORPLANT contraceptive . |
| 4 | We went steaming first to work up an appetite . |
| 5 | I think it convenient in this judgment first to set out the salient facts of the case , as found by the judge , and then to consider the authorities from which must be extracted the principles of law and equity to be applied to the facts . |
| 6 | They had to ford these hazards , Travis going first to pick out the best route . |
| 7 | Unionist reactions were twofold , first to play up the war itself as a unifier of classes , and second to exploit divisions in the Labour movement in the hope of carrying them over into peacetime . |
| 8 | Marx was not the first to denounce the wretched condition of the working class in capitalist countries , nor was he the first to point out the apparent anomaly that those who produced the wealth , the workers , were the poorest while those who were apparently useless drones , the capitalists and their associates , were the richest . |
| 9 | Darwin 's work gave new directions : first to fill in the gaps in the record so that the history of life would be more complete ; and second , to investigate the origin of mankind , previously a tabooed subject . |
| 10 | Using PF 5 ( 5.1 ) as an example , we shall proceed first to build up the reducible representation Γ y corresponding to the whole set of 3N degrees of freedom , then to reduce it , and only then remove the external motions to leave Γ vib . |
| 11 | Mrs Hawkins reported that she had been unable to take photos at this location as she had first to finish off a slide film , but will soon be in a position to take the required photos and also others to be displayed at the A.G.M. and then stored in the village archives . |
| 12 | Although it did so just 150 yards from the first inhabited house of the 7,000-population Sicilian town , the steaming wall of lava — here 20 feet high , and in other places towering more than 50 feet — managed first to swallow up a summer cottage and a vineyard dotted with fruit trees . |
| 13 | Kimon 's prestige was still enough to get help voted , though he had first to beat back a prosecution for bribery over Thasos by Pericles . |
| 14 | In Britain the ILP and the Communist Party were naturally the first to take up the call for united action . |
| 15 | Armstrong was first to take up the cudgels at the end of last season , and a little piece of bantering brought in Harrison . |
| 16 | Esmé Collins , I read , was a well-known Brighton portrait photographer , one of the very first to take up the production of cinema films in eighteen ninety-six . |
| 17 | Newly refurbished and the first to show off the new logo , the Bath Road store 's being hailed as a model for Co-Ops to come — proof , says the company , that it 's serious about shedding that fuddy duddy image once . |