Example sentences of "[verb] to [be] [verb] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The worker 's personal feelings may need to be acknowledged first , before it is possible to embark on the kind of work in which a couple of the generation of the worker 's parents or grandparents are encouraged to express their sexuality and personal needs . |
| 2 | If a full excavation of the Globe were to take place , the building would need to be demolished first . |
| 3 | This will take R ( or 3R/2 if the start of the track has to be detected first ) for the centre track , and R/2 for the other track searched . |
| 4 | There is an obvious demographic point that has to be made first . |
| 5 | Before you start on this project you must do some checking as maybe a visit to your nearest dealer , or order to a Mail Order firm , has to be undertaken first . |
| 6 | The question that has to be asked first , is : How is such a framework possible ? |
| 7 | Mr Parry said it should be pointed out that when a person takes over a public house a protection has to be granted first . |
| 8 | It will incorporate the functionality of Windows for Workgroups , and will include its own native 32-bit file system and device drivers integrated with a Windows kernel so that it will not technically require MS-DOS to run , although it may be packaged so that MS-DOS 7.0 , which will also include the 32-bit features , has to be installed first . |
| 9 | It will incorporate the functionality of Windows for Workgroups , and will include its own native 32-bit file system and device drivers integrated with a Windows kernel so that it will not technically require MS-DOS to run , although it may be packaged so that MS-DOS 7.0 , which will also include the 32-bit features , has to be installed first . |
| 10 | By the Great Semantic Shift which has operated in English politics over the past 30 years or so , opinions on this and many other matters which were once held by the majority and described as ‘ moderate ’ , ‘ of the centre ’ or merely ‘ patriotic ’ have gradually come to be described first as ‘ right-wing ’ , then as ‘ extreme right-wing ’ , then as ‘ lunatic fringe ’ and finally as ‘ fascist ’ . |
| 11 | Purchases of shares issued as a result of bonus shares and scrip dividends in respect of the original shares are , in general , also treated as distributions and are deemed to be purchased first ( ICTA 1988 , s211 ) . |
| 12 | In each case the greatest threat needs to be addressed first and where two or more addictions are equally strong , then each needs to be treated with equivalent concern . |
| 13 | You want them up at the top of the sheet , where they 're going to be seen first ( they look that good ) . |
| 14 | ‘ For 25 minutes it was difficult to see who was going to be exhausted first , ’ said David , 36 , Caithness SAA secretary . |
| 15 | The interpretation which perhaps makes most sense of people 's answers is that their decisions seem to be based first on a desire to pay off quickly , and second ( in modification of this ) on how high an instalment they can afford — rather than on interest rates or total cost . |
| 16 | ‘ On that subject , ’ Orcadai spoke finally , ‘ I would hope to be consulted first . ’ |
| 17 | They had demanded to be paid first . |
| 18 | Italy might be considered an unlikely candidate for EMU because of its chronic budget deficit , which would have to be reformed first . |
| 19 | The principle which would have to be established first of all is that each person in the world ( all those aged 21 or over , suggests Dr Grubb ) would have an equal share in man-made carbon dioxide emissions , regardless of whether he lived in a rich developed country or a poor one which produced hardly any carbon dioxide at all . |
| 20 | Electric wiring should , if possible , be kept clear of the insulation ; and if you are considering having the joists treated for woodworm , all insulation will have to be removed first . |
| 21 | Belinda wondered how on earth they were going to get it up the stairs and through the house , but she sensibly decided that it was their concern , not hers , and anyway the bedroom needed to be vacuumed first . |
| 22 | But if fighting appears inevitable , you do n't have to wait to be hit first . |
| 23 | The only relief is from being constantly carried and even then the relief may not last or they will want to be carried first by one parent and then the other . |
| 24 | Rent was a charge that had to be met first , although midnight ‘ flits ’ to avoid paying rent were common among the very poor and not unknown for the artisan in temporarily reduced circumstances . |
| 25 | Our film stock and equipment , which comprised some nine-tenths of our travelling weight , had to be husbanded first past the Pac-Man thicket of Customs and Immigration , thence through unpredictable months in the jungles , and finally out of the country again intact and undetained . |
| 26 | Paskevich wanted to cross the Araxes without further ado and move on Tabriz and Tehran , whereas Ermolov believed that the fortress of Erevan had to be taken first . |
| 27 | The Middle East is still suffering from the consequences of Jewish beastliness ( why could n't they have waited to be attacked first , like gents ? ) , including what someone euphemistically described as the ‘ re-unification ’ of Jerusalem . |
| 28 | Thus 5b refers to ordering or comparing with given measurements , while in 5c measurements have to be made first . |
| 29 | The only proviso is that the politicians have to be asked first . |
| 30 | This very rapid absorption occurs partly because alcohol dies not have to be digested first and partly because a significant amount is absorbed from the stomach . |