Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alec Monk , formerly international advertising controller at Nestlé , refused to approve any commercial in which the brand name failed to appear in the first seven or eight seconds , and in which it was not repeated several times . |
| 2 | CUMMINS Engine , the U.S. diesel engine maker with a plant in Darlington , claims it should be returning to profit in the first quarter of this year . |
| 3 | I want to play in the first competition match and then make sure of my place in the NSW team . |
| 4 | of the value of the scholarship and not bother to apply in the first place , but the major scholarship was worth at its maximum a hundred and fifty pounds |
| 5 | 2 Answer the questions that the journalist will need to ask in the first paragraph of the release and develop the various points in order of importance . |
| 6 | As for tomorrow 's race , Jeremy ca n't realistically expect to finish in the first ten first time out . |
| 7 | Well indeed , and er , having got in , I suppose they proceeded to entertain your father with the music he did n't particularly want to hear in the first place ? |
| 8 | Whoever received and processed a buy order would gain both the commission and a client , without having had to prospect in the first place . |
| 9 | They begin to appear in the first quarter of the eighteenth century , a remnant of the funerary effigy , though it is not recorded that nobles , apart from those of royal blood , ever had them ( Cromwell and General Monck excepted ) . |
| 10 | On Oct. 24 a list was published of 24 banks which had agreed to participate in the first level of syndication of a US$5,000 million loan to the Kuwaiti government . |
| 11 | The experience of the Belfast researchers was that a narrow transcription was needed to identify in the first place the range of vowel variation associated with different phonetic environments . |
| 12 | Whatever the government allows in due course by way of contingency arrangements which it intends to permit in the first instance in personal injury cases , it is unlikely to sweep away the need for Legal Aid . |
| 13 | This makes it important to use the airbrakes to ensure that you cross the upwind boundary very low as though you were attempting to land in the first part of the field . |
| 14 | These days he had trouble recalling the troublesome fragments of his education he had bothered to memorize in the first place ; the names of a few acquaintances were jumbled together with old verb forms and things he thought were childhood haunts turned out to be places he had only just discovered . |
| 15 | erm and with this money that I 'm going to earn in the first six weeks and then possibly erm getting a job while I 'm doing the correspondence course erm you know even if it 's just bar work and especially |
| 16 | Figure 3 shows that the highest frequency of intolerances seem to occur in the first eight weeks after completing the course of elemental diet . |
| 17 | InterBase 3.2 with support for Japanese , including Kanji and Kana , is scheduled to ship in the first half of next year . |
| 18 | Dolphin 's Motorola Inc 88110-based Triton SCI Server , which was scheduled to ship in the first quarter of this year , will be kept under wraps for at least another year , the company says . |
| 19 | But crisis — particularly one which puts the USSR 's world position at risk — is something that the West should wish to avoid in the first place . |
| 20 | ‘ How did they get the £250,000 spare wealth needed to qualify in the first place ’ , is one theme I hear from these envy-driven commentators . |
| 21 | Trainee consultants need to appreciate that the procedure of informing an interested school of the different structures that have been found to work well in different settings , and of inviting the school to decide which they might wish to develop in the first instance , is in itself an important part of preparing a supportive climate . |
| 22 | This contrasts with developmental dyslexia which is an impairment , possibly congenital , in learning to read in the first place . |
| 23 | After a year at Oxford University , Edward went to fight in the First World War . |
| 24 | We chose to investigate in the first place the speech of those who are not very likely to be directly affected by mainstream norms , and whose speech is of the type that had been least explored by descriptive linguists — the urban working class . |
| 25 | Either the individual can not get to sleep in the first place or he wakes frequently during the night . |
| 26 | The Portadown player had to work in the first couple of frames but after that he stepped up a gear and dismissed the English player almost scornfully . |
| 27 | Though they 've slipped up lately , there is still hope that the Premier League will end up in the hands of the sort of club that the likes of Arsenal , Everton and Manchester United were trying to exclude in the first place . |
| 28 | Recession may be burying the major continental economies , with the likelihood that things will get much worse before they start to get better , but the European personal computer market continued to prosper in the first quarter , the Wall Street Journal reports . |
| 29 | As regards contracts of employment , it is provided that he is to be liable on any contract of employment adopted by him but nothing he does or omits to do in the first 14 days of his appointment is to be taken as adoption of the contract . |
| 30 | Although the decision represents a much needed victory for the regulatory authorities , it is unfortunate that the appellate courts had to intervene in the first place . |