Example sentences of "[noun] to [be] [verb] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some parties had called for a national multiparty conference to be held first . |
| 2 | So that erm if we 're talking to parents , for example , about being assertive , we know that very often the feelings behind their inability to be assertive need to be addressed first of all and then the skills that they may want to acquire will fit in with erm a different quality erm of where it 's emanating from in them as a person . |
| 3 | A diagnosis of psychosomatic illness or hypochondria is very largely a diagnosis of exclusion — it requires all other possibilities to be excluded first . |
| 4 | I submit that there are logistical , financial , and indeed ethical questions to be addressed first . |
| 5 | Indeed , one representative of a finance house pointed out that there was a benefit in allowing the short-term debts to be cleared first ; it gave the debtor a light at the end of the tunnel , an achievable goal to aim at . |
| 6 | ‘ There are one or two forms to be signed first … ’ |
| 7 | But it soon seemed natural for one man to be held first among equals ; or the first prominent convert in a city , like Stephanas at Corinth ( 1 Cor. 16 : 15–16 ) , might form a community round his household . |
| 8 | In this case the seller will probably require some statement of the efforts that the acquirer will take to collect the debts , provision for unallocated payments received from debtors to be attributed first to pre-completion obligations , and a right to take over the enforcement of debts which are not collected within a period of , say , six months . |
| 9 | Other doctor 's patients are having their operations postponed in order to allow the patients of G P fundholders to be treated first . |
| 10 | If a court were minded in particular circumstances to permit the questioning of the proceedings of the House in the way proposed , it would be proper for the leave of the House to be sought first by way of petition so that , if leave were granted , no question would arise of the House regarding its privileges as having been breached . |