Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [art] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Sept. 18 Isidore Mvouba was dismissed as Minister of Trade and Commerce after he failed to attend the first meeting of the Cabinet , attending instead a meeting of his own party , the ( formerly ruling ) Congolese Labour Party ( PCT ) . |
| 2 | No one , of course , would want to compare the first week of school term with the outbreak of a world war , but we are at the beginning of a New Year and a gateway to the future . |
| 3 | As soon as Leonard learned to talk he was taught to recite the first words of the Shema , the ‘ creed ’ of Judaism which originated on Sinai with Moses and is recited daily : |
| 4 | ‘ The bad news is that they want to see a first draft script within three weeks . ’ |
| 5 | What is he going to say when he discovers that he is expected to transmit the first report from an advisory unit in the history of government to include an account of the Director 's domestic arrangements ? |
| 6 | Well , we 're going to try to provide the first steps towards uniformity . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The Insured Person has to bear the first £25 of each and every claim . |
| 10 | The Insured Person has to bear the first £25 of each and every claim . |
| 11 | The Insured Person has to bear the first £25 of each and every claim . |
| 12 | If I told you I want to install the first tube of the bridge next March or thereabouts , what 'd you say ? ’ |
| 13 | Everyone wants to win the First Divisiocn championship . |
| 14 | They were working up to the crucial ( as it was then ) question of how and why she had come to identify the first body as Uncle Mossycop 's . |
| 15 | This feature was designed to cover the first flights of three Spitfires , during the time of its production that statistic changed to four ! |
| 16 | She held the envelope to the light , squinting at it with one eye while she tried to read the first paragraph . |
| 17 | " The problem was he omitted to divorce the first wife . |
| 18 | The official unions will have to compete directly with Solidarity for members , so they want to land the first blows . |
| 19 | That is the very year that Manchester , spearheaded by Anne , want to host the first Olympics of the new century . |
| 20 | The chance of the monkey happening to get the first letter — M — right is therefore 1 in 27 . |
| 21 | Year II of the core subjects is designed to develop the first year taxonomy of skills at a problem-solving and decisional level and to provide an integrative view of the office environment . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | GOVERNORS at Colchester County High School have voted to take the first steps on the road to opting out . |
| 24 | In later years he was once asked whether he , who was shy , was anguished when forced to go out visiting homes in Liverpool and to try to make the first touch with a strange family . |
| 25 | Following the trend spearheaded by Unify Corp with its Accell 4GL toolset a few years ago , Ingres Corp is expected to make the first moves in liberating its own toolsets from the Ingres database next month . |
| 26 | But he wants to become the first man to do it all the way across . |
| 27 | If you want to skip the first quest in The Legend of Zelda on the NES , you can go straight on to the second one by entering Zelda as your name on the initial screen . |
| 28 | The acoustic front-end failed to detect the first vowel . |
| 29 | Iwerks Entertainment Inc , a Burbank , California company that includes Sun Microsystems Inc among its backers , says it plans to open movie park entertainment centres that will combine large-screen formats , simulation and virtual reality technologies to create a futuristic cinematic city : it plans to open the first Cinetropolis in August at the Foxwoods Casino in Ledyard , Connecticut , and has also signed an agreement with the Japanese trading firm Itochu Corp to launch a network of Cinetropolises throughout the Far East and Asia ; Cinetropolis will be a virtual city of cinemas featuring five separate sites : an Iwerks Video 360 circular theatre an Iwerks 870 giant screen theatre , an Iwerks Virtual Reality simulation theatre , and a live performance theatre , all built around a street scene featuring bars , restaurants , retail stores and promotional marketing space . |
| 30 | Without any shade of doubt , France deserved to win the first official Five Nations championship and — would have probably grabbed the Grand Slam as well — but for the Twickenham goal posts . |