Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | As The Lord of the Rings was coming to the end of its gestation it became possible for the first time for political leaders to say they wanted nothing and make it come true . |
| 2 | Last Thursday their problems became public for the first time when Allen began a legal battle for custody of three of their children . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , a great deal of our flying is done by habit and this can lead to serious problems if anything goes wrong on the first flight in a strange machine . |
| 4 | Council goes public for the first time |
| 5 | Thus , where rent is payable quarterly in advance on the usual quarter days a term of " seven years from 25 March " will be construed as beginning at the first moment of 25 March , so that the first payment of rent will fall due on the first day of the term and the last payment of rent would be made in respect of a complete quarter , which ends at the last moment of the term . |
| 6 | The latest Williams-trained discovery , New Level , looks outstanding in the first heat of the Regal Puppy Trophy , having won his first three races and never being headed to the first bend . |
| 7 | It would have given Northern Ireland breathing space ; at 1–0 there was still a trace of anxiety in their play and Latvia , for whom Popkov and Charando had looked dangerous in the first half were never totally out of it . |
| 8 | Patients were interviewed monthly for the first five months and every three months thereafter . |
| 9 | Preventive health measures which tackle the cause of why people are becoming sick in the first place could save vast sums of public money which are being wasted by the National Health Service treating the symptoms . |
| 10 | In their latest show , ‘ New Democratic Pictures ’ ( the first in Britain for three years ) , Gilbert and George ( who often appear alongside their exclusively male models ) pose naked for the first time . |
| 11 | It starts as for Ziggerat , climbs direct to the first roof , pulls through this and continues up the steep wall to the next roof which is passed by very difficult bridging . |
| 12 | She told Susan about her encounter when she gave her the humbugs , and the elder sister seemed interested for the first time that evening . |
| 13 | Somervillians have never lacked energy , as was made clear by the first of ourJills of All Trades , Ruth Spalding . |
| 14 | In the first division Oxford United were looking good in the first half thanks to a goal from defender Anton Rogan … |
| 15 | Many of the people who were made redundant during the first wave of financial job losses in 1990 have found work in other fields . |
| 16 | Hanrott was made responsible for the first ‘ Council ’ visits , at which they saw some quite ‘ unsuitable environments ’ , information from these visits being fed at first into the subject boards rather than into the Council itself' . |
| 17 | Finally , especially if you are living alone for the first time , invest in some small cooking dishes and fridge/freezer containers . |
| 18 | Relatives often seem to feel that they do not need to bring a contribution , unless , of course , you are young , living alone for the first time and being visited by your mother , in which case she will probably bring a month 's supply of food and wash up for you as well ! |
| 19 | I had imagined that if the Secretary of State was interested in doing his job properly he would have said to us , ’ Mr. Stoner 's opinion will be made available to the first meeting of the Select Committee . ’ |
| 20 | MOSCOW — Huge amounts of computerised information held in Soviet data bases are to be made available for the first time to Western research , it was agreed at a conference for Western and Eastern scientists here , writes Justin Arundale . |
| 21 | He it was who rescued a number of precious unpublished test recordings from private collections , and caused them to be made available for the first time . |
| 22 | With the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls , however , a corpus of Essene material was made available for the first time , and it is now possible to assess the Essenes on their own terms . |
| 23 | Carlsbad , California-based Stac Electronics Inc is meeting the challenge of the built-in data compression in MS-DOS 6.0 , formally launched by Microsoft Corp yesterday with its own new Stacker 3.1 for Windows and MS-DOS : the company says the new version achieves new levels of safety and ease of use by taking advantage of special operating system features available for the first time in MS-DOS 6.0 ; when loaded , it replaces Microsoft 's DoubleSpace , and integrates the Stacker LZS compression into the operating system , and Stac claims that unlike DoubleSpace , which is based on data compression technology licensed from Vertisoft Systems Inc , $150 Stacker 3.1 is also fully compatible with earlier MS-DOSes . |
| 24 | BRITAIN 'S most bitter boxing rivals bawled it out during a chance encounter in London yesterday when Nigel Benn and Chris Eubank came face-to-face for the first time in 25 months since their epic world title fight . |
| 25 | Since the commission was set up in the First World War they in nineteen ninety five they said it would break even for the first time and agreed the last and thirties and forty come to maturity in which incomes are expected to double by twenty , twenty two . |
| 26 | Exactly and if , if you can break even in the first |
| 27 | ‘ If a woman did not become pregnant after the first transfer attempt , any frozen embryos could be thawed and transferred in a subsequent menstrual cycle , ’ he said . |
| 28 | Well that 's going free to the first person to ring us on three double one , one double one with the answers to these three questions , listen carefully . |
| 29 | Go and get a good night 's sleep , love , ’ ‘ Patricia ’ urged , sounding honest for the first time that evening . |
| 30 | I ca n't undersa I ca n't understand how comes she 's got involved with the first ma guy to come along ? |