Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] to the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Economics ( and the fear of being bored witless for the third time in 10 days ) demanded that I , and my son , only got to the first two matches and watched from the Kop . |
| 2 | Adjuvant therapy was not given to the first 44 successfully treated patients . |
| 3 | But the parties are not confined to the first perspective . |
| 4 | These improvements in mortality are now almost totally confined to the first year of life and the years after age 65 . |
| 5 | The answer to this second question is integrally related to the first . |
| 6 | The first thing she will do is organise more space than the limited suite of offices traditionally allocated to the First Lady . |
| 7 | In that case the solutions that I have so far given to the first equation would no longer be acceptable , but one could take x=1 , y=2 , and z=1 . |
| 8 | For covalent compounds , a prefix is often added to the first and-or second name to indicate the ratio of atoms in the compound . |
| 9 | Yet it is migration to and from rural areas that has been the main concern of rural geographers in the last century , and so attention is now turned to the first major theme of this chapter , rural population change . |
| 10 | Hebrew is thought by some linguists to be very distantly related to the first three languages , and by other linguists not to be related , so the reason for the similarity can not be definitely given . |
| 11 | These roads lead to that part of the old Chatham Royal Naval Dockyard which is now leased to the first defendant , Medway ( Chatham ) Dock Co . |
| 12 | In fact , I had n't even got to the first stair before the phone went . |
| 13 | A short while after the evening at St James 's Palace , I was very kindly invited to the First Annual NCH 's George Thomas Society Lecture , held at the Cafe Royal . |
| 14 | It describes a syndrome , sometimes related to the first intercourse but by no means restricted to it , in which the woman develops the symptoms of cystitis , particularly frequency and dysuria , following sex . |
| 15 | Elsewhere the 70 m ( 230 ft ) terrace is sometimes attributed to the first interglacial period . |
| 16 | The second issue , and it is closely related to the first , is whether the succession of images — and they succeed each other with alarming frequency — enables us not only to remember past events but to learn from our past mistakes . |
| 17 | The second reason is closely allied to the first . |
| 18 | Recently relegated to the first division , the projected loss of Premier League gate receipts meant a further deficit of £400,000 . |
| 19 | the preparation of quite large amounts of text ( letters , job descriptions , contracts ) with a considerable amount of repetition of common material ; 2. the creation and maintenance of files containing a mass of details about people and their subsequent analysis to provide information in a wide variety of forms for many different purposes Both these activities can be considerably simplified and streamlined using computers Word processing systems are eminently suited to the first . |
| 20 | Elected to the representative board ( 1879 ) which was to be responsible for the foundation of the British Dental Association , he was subsequently appointed to the first editorial committee of the Journal of the BDA , and was BDA president in 1884 . |