Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [to-vb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let us note , too , that coming as Marx did to English economics after he had studied Hegel 's philosophy of history , he could come with a mind predisposed to fit the first into a grand dialectical scheme such as the second propounded . |
| 2 | The data seems to support the first belief : of those who had had some experience of unemployment in the previous five years , 0.480 said they would be prepared to break the law , whereas only 0.300 of those who had no such experience were ( a difference of +0.180 ) . |
| 3 | Oracle Corp plans to release the first benchmarks run on its parallel server technology within the next few weeks . |
| 4 | It was in this way that Galle came to make the first sighting of the planet now known as Neptune . |
| 5 | Despite announcing the projected two-year trip to the southern hemisphere expressly for this purpose , Gould began to publish the first parts of his Birds of Australia before he had even left . |
| 6 | It is obviously to the husband 's advantage in such circumstances to seek to persuade the first mortgagee to offer the wife a further advance of sufficient amount to repay the second charge . |
| 7 | Sewell seeks to become the first coach to successfully guide a team to victory in both men 's and women 's cup finals . |
| 8 | In feed-back inhibition , the final product P acts to inhibit the first enzyme in the series : that is , the enzyme that catalyses the step S→A . |
| 9 | The acoustic front-end failed to detect the first vowel . |
| 10 | Monaco also have six players within one yellow card of suspension as they travel to Rotterdam hoping to become the first French finalists in the Cup Winners ' Cup . |
| 11 | Ants had to play the first quarter one player short and did well to hold the Saracens to 9–9 . |
| 12 | Many no doubt sincere Christians continued to celebrate the first day of January in defiance of their clergy 's disapproval , or liked to greet the rising sun from the steps into the church , and , most of all , to attend the great festive games and shows . |
| 13 | Western drug enforcement agents are trying to persuade the Bhutto government to enter , but such a move threatens to spill the first blood of Benazir 's fledgling democracy . |
| 14 | Armed envoys of Life President Dr Hastings Banda had apprehended Chakufwa Chihana , the British-educated trade union leader mandated to sow the first seeds of a Malawi spring , and the Catholic church , a powerful ally , had fallen silent . |
| 15 | The Insured Person has to bear the first £25 of each and every claim , except in respect of claims for deposits only where the Insured Person has to bear the first £10 of each and every claim . |
| 16 | The Insured Person has to bear the first £25 of each and every claim , except in respect of claims for deposits only where the Insured Person has to bear the first £10 of each and every claim . |
| 17 | The Insured Person has to bear the first £25 of each and every claim . |
| 18 | The Insured Person has to bear the first £25 of each and every claim . |
| 19 | The Insured Person has to bear the first £25 of each and every claim . |
| 20 | The principles and example of the Revolution helped to inspire the first successful slave revolt in the Caribbean in Haiti , as well as the political independence movements of South America . |
| 21 | Sweden tried to take the first initiative only two days after the ending of the Maudling negotiations , inviting other states to send representatives to Stockholm to discuss how their trade policies might be better coordinated . |
| 22 | If DOS fails to match the first word of your input to its list of internal commands , it will start looking on the hard disk for a COM , EXE or BAT file with that name . |
| 23 | This year politics and economics conspired to make the first almost impossible . |
| 24 | Sharp Corp aims to become the first Japanese company to make colour liquid crystal displays overseas when it starts manufacturing its super-twisted nematic displays — the lower-cost , lower performance colour displays — at its Sharp Microelectronics Technology Inc in Camas , Washington . |
| 25 | Claudia goes to get the first aid kit . |
| 26 | Longman the least seasonally biased of the three struggled to break even in the first half and this removed the normal pattern of Longman 's half-year profits helping to offset the first half losses of the other two businesses but before we get too depressed er I point out that Addison Wesley s sales were up by eleven percent and the size of the first half loss reflects the company 's decision to gear up in advance er , for what we w believe will be a very strong er , second er , half performance . |
| 27 | The seminars , which will be held in Dundee and Glasgow , will focus on the second phase of general SVQs , though they may also include workshops for centres wanting to pilot the first batch of awards for the first time . |
| 28 | Holly coming back to the bench after an hour 's walk that had taken him to the ski jump where the young people gathered to watch the first of the winter 's athletes propel themselves into the dizzy air flows . |
| 29 | Of these societies ( outside those areas of disseminated settlement where the parish tended to become the first unit beyond the family and that of those neighbouring farmers who helped each other out at harvest and ploughing ) the most significant was the pueblo . |
| 30 | GRAHAM BARROW hopes to take the first step towards a brighter future for Chester City today . |