Example sentences of "[v-ing] to [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , according to a Gascon petition of 1279 , was traditionally composed of the prelates , barons , knights and other nobles of the land and was to adjudge all cases concerning inheritance and other matters relating to the first two estates ( clergy and nobility ) of the duchy . |
| 2 | In the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan , 376 U.S. 254 relating to the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the American Constitution , the sentiments expressed by Brennan J. in his opinion accord closely with the approach of the European Court of Human Rights . |
| 3 | In my view , when the truth of representations is being considered , no objection can be taken to the request relating to the first audit , nor to the second audit since the latter may well reveal material relevant to the conduct of the company 's business before acquisition and after acquisition in a way which reflects on the earlier conduct of the business . |
| 4 | In addition to its involvement of the country 's most famous political family , the case also acquired constitutional implications — relating to the First Amendment 's guarantee of freedom of speech — when charges were also filed against The Globe newspaper , a national supermarket tabloid , for having violated a 1911 Florida law by publishing the name of the woman . |
| 5 | Returning to the first assumption of left idealism — the interpretation of the ideological nature of working-class crime — here we are presented with much greater difficulties . |
| 6 | Derry , on the other hand , will be at full strength with Paul Trainor returning to the first team panel after serving a one match suspension against Limerick last weekend . |
| 7 | I can see nothing in principle to prevent a contemnor applying to the first instance court to be released from custody on the ground that the failure to serve him with the committal order has kept him in ignorance of the contempts for which he has been imprisoned and that , in the circumstances , justice requires his release . |
| 8 | Listening to the first day 's proceedings , I found myself not transported into the future so much as revisiting the past . |
| 9 | I have to admit that I was expecting something rather special from him , but listening to the first instalment in his survey of the sonatas has only strengthened my opinion that it seems almost impossible for one pianist to attain a consistent level of achievement in all of the sonatas . |
| 10 | Thank you Chairman erm I would like I know that you 've been listening to the first er part of our session this afternoon , erm and I 'd like to ask you to discuss with us one of the questions that we asked the group the Pension Fund erm and that 's to discuss the balance of power that exists between the employer and the various groups and classes of pensioner . |
| 11 | Though I do not desire to stray into fields where others here are expert , I must point out that according to the first chapter of Genesis the world was so constituted from the beginning that good and evil were created together in it , and also that the knowledge of them existed before mankind . |
| 12 | According to the first view , inspiration is an enhancement of natural , rational discernment , not a suspension or abolition . |
| 13 | A large number of firms the Joint Monitoring Unit visited last year are failing to meet one or more of its criteria for good audit procedures , according to the first annual review of audit regulation . |
| 14 | According to the first theory , which is the one the Greeks themselves prefer , they behave as they do in the public side of life because of what history has done to them . |
| 15 | Records are filed according to the first letter of the surname and then in the order of the first letter of the Christian name , for example : |
| 16 | According to the first , only a very small proportion ( 6 per cent ) of those entering unemployment from employment did so because a temporary job had come to an end ; according to the second rather more ( 16 per cent ) did . |
| 17 | According to the first , and the largest group , all labourers are part of the capital ; according to the second group , it is , as Kiker points out , ‘ the skilled individual who is the capital ’ . |
| 18 | If thirty days elapse from the date on which one of the parties received a proposal submitted according to the first item without the parties agreeing to appoint the one arbitrator , his appointment is done by the appointing authority which the parties agreed to name . |
| 19 | If thirty days elapse from the date on which either party received a proposal — submitted according to the first item [ ( a ) ] — without the two parties agreeing on appointing one arbitrator , the authority nominated by the two parties undertakes to appoint the arbitrator . |
| 20 | Although the classification notation will subsequently incorporate the notation of the second facet , the document will be placed physically according to the first facet ; that is , this document will either be placed with other documents on mathematics or with other documents on primary schools . |
| 21 | Losses of European forests due to air pollution are running at US$29 billion per year , according to the first study ever to attempt such an estimate of pollution 's financial impact on tree reserves . |
| 22 | More than a tenth of the world 's soils have lost a substantial amount of their natural fertiliser in the past 45 years , according to the first results of a 15-year Global Assessment of Soil Degradation , funded by the UN Environment Programme . |
| 23 | In lead : President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has taken a big lead in Iran 's presidential election , winning nearly 70% of the votes counted , according to the first partial results issued by the interior ministry today . |
| 24 | Well er I think some of my earliest memories are er dating to the First World War time when I was a boy and we lived in Street which er during the war , we made a shift to which was really the opposite side of the street . |
| 25 | At home they had behaved as if she were a toddler going to a first party in a party frock rather than a huge ungainly student eighteen years of age going to university dressed from head to toe in dark clothes . |
| 26 | I think Steve was going to a first aider or something , and there was quite a few different people . |
| 27 | From this position he could not expect to be prominent going to the first bend , the clubhouse turn , and Shoemaker held him back in about eighth place , some four horses out from the rails , as the runners came past the stands . |
| 28 | If you feel you would like to go to a group but feel uneasy about going to the first one alone contact me and I will arrange for someone to take you and introduce you . |
| 29 | Going to the first GLF meeting brought together these two aspects of myself as I saw for the first time the emotional need to have a context where I could be open and proud of my gayness , as well as the political context where my sexuality would seem relevant to all the other things that were going on around me at work and in the country at large . |
| 30 | Because she 's not been going to the first aid room . |