Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | This will ship during the first quarter of this year . |
| 2 | As she shares Christmas dinner with her brother Charles , Diana will experience for the first time the trauma she has dreaded since the cracks first showed in her marriage . |
| 3 | Those ‘ events ’ of primitive evolution which did not qualify as ‘ good ’ should not be termed ‘ bad ’ , but simply ‘ not good ’ , because ‘ bad ’ implies the existence of ‘ evil ’ , and this did not exist during the first two of the three periods into which this book assumes universal existence to be divided . |
| 4 | Although a total prohibition exists for the third category above , special circumstances may exist for the first two services . |
| 5 | Active or REM sleep onset will persist for the first twelve months of life in normal infants . |
| 6 | ; Mij All twelve writers will come to a glitzy show biz type lunch at the Cafe Royal , hosted by David Frost , and that 's where we will know for the first time , who 's , who is the overall winner , the runner-up and the third place writer . |
| 7 | Make a list of what essential food you will need for the first day in your new home and go shopping the day before you move . |
| 8 | It could well be that an Australian will win for the first time . |
| 9 | Manager Kenny Shiels , watching his side win for the first time since the opening day of the season , feels that it 's not an impossible dream . |
| 10 | Manager Kenny Shiels , watching his side win for the first time since the opening day of the season , feels that it 's not an impossible dream . |
| 11 | Yeah I remember the Bow but I did n't know about the first bit . |
| 12 | And this difference between them and such initially sympathetic Englishmen as Hewlett and Newbolt went very deep ; for ultimately it meant that , when the question arose whether the artist 's first responsibility was to his art ( his trade ) or to his society , Pound and Lewis and Ford would opt for the first alternative , Hewlett and Newbolt for the second — as indeed we soon see them doing when both of them answer the call of First World War patriotism by writing moralebuilding poems and stories . |
| 13 | Clearly then , if the company is to choose one it should opt for the first . |
| 14 | As soon as the passport came through , Coleman should wait for the first convenient lull in the fighting in Beirut and then leave immediately . |
| 15 | In the all ticket days you could often wait for the first coach from Leeds to turn up and they would have 20+ tickets for us poor souls who could nt get one ! ! |
| 16 | In the all ticket days you could often wait for the first coach from Leeds to turn up and they would have 20+ tickets for us poor souls who could nt get one ! ! |
| 17 | Most innocuous sadism would fall into the first category ; sadistic murder would mark the extreme of the second . |
| 18 | Any piece of computer equipment which has to be fitted to some other equipment , such as a replacement " card " ( printed circuit board containing integrated circuits ) which has to be a certain shape , or have a certain type of connector , in order to fit into a computer will also fall into the first part of the exception . |
| 19 | As you straighten your hand the band will jump from the first two fingers on to the third and fourth ones . |
| 20 | This liability would fall in the first instance on the resident owner , then the resident tenant and so on . |
| 21 | They were made to stand and wait in the first of these . |
| 22 | Therefore , a second thief can steal from the first : Meech [ 1974 ] QB 549 ( CA ) . |
| 23 | Indeed why did it flourish in the first place ? |
| 24 | case of a shop assistant and you do n't know their name , do n't , write do n't know on the first line of shop assistant under occupation , only include people who speak to you |
| 25 | OUR flower gardens are full of blossom at the moment , carried on plants that will not survive beyond the first few frosts of autumn . |
| 26 | This study will , therefore , concentrate on the first wave of evacuation during the ‘ phoney war ’ period because it was this stage that caused most controversy . |
| 27 | So I must not jump at the first chance . |
| 28 | What I 'm planning to do is to put them back in the order , colleagues could you settle down please , I 'm planning to put them back on the agenda in the order that they fell off , and er , hopefully , the first opportunity in that connection may be Wednesday afternoon , but I need to have a discussion with colleagues about that , but I 'll certainly let you know at the first available opportunity . |
| 29 | Gosport was found to be ‘ virtually without defence , protected on the landward side only by an ill-maintained entrenchment … which would fall at the first assault ’ , while the Isle of Wight contained so few troops , so thinly scattered , that it was bound to succumb to a determined attack . |
| 30 | Those Q.T. 's who have already received tickets to sell will greatly assist Cicely in the organisation of the event if they would let her know by the first week in February how many tickets they have sold as she will be away from 8th Feb. to 8th March . |