Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [art] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In SWDs and SSDs , it would be possible to accept the first definition almost unreservedly . |
| 2 | I was very interested to receive the first edition of Nonesuch and to read that its name was derived from a flower connected with the City of Bristol — as a member of a 17th-century dance team , I had only previously come across Nonesuch as the name of a dance . |
| 3 | If you are prepared to pay the first £50 of all claims * yourself , you will be entitled to a premium discount which is normally one sixth of the new premium . |
| 4 | And , if you are prepared to pay the first £50 of any claim yourself , the basic rate is only £1.25 per £1,000 . |
| 5 | But , if you are prepared to pay the first £50 of any claim yourself , you will be entitled to a discount — normally 50p per £1,000 of insurance . |
| 6 | If you are prepared to pay the first £50 of all claims yourself , you will be entitled to a discount on your premium . |
| 7 | If you 're willing to pay the first £100 of any claim , your premium will fall by a further 10% . |
| 8 | We were both trembling with desire , afraid to make the first move . |
| 9 | Few do it better than Welshman Colin Jackson who was the pre-Games favourite to become the first Briton to win the Gold Medal in the discipline . |
| 10 | HM The Queen visited the site in 1979 to inaugurate the first evaporator . |
| 11 | Traders said it was too early to price the first contracts . |
| 12 | It is nearly always impossible to raise the first quote . |
| 13 | They were quick to spot the first ripples of concern which have surged into a tide over the past year . |
| 14 | Any new student interested in joining the squad is welcome to attend the first training session on Wednesday September 8 , at the Dub playing fields , 2pm . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh , how nice to be able to refuse , when most of us are glad to accept the first offer ! |
| 16 | Second they determine under what circumstances he is likely to answer the first question correctly . |
| 17 | There were a number of clues available to Robson : if West had still held the guarded queen of clubs he would almost certainly have kept and exited with his last spade ; if he had held both the king and queen of clubs he would have been equally likely to win the first club with the queen ; and , from what had happened so far , it looked as though West had started with more clubs than his partner . |
| 18 | THE Premier League yesterday came up with a peace formula that seemed likely to avert the first strike by English footballers . |
| 19 | Because there is.little , if any , evidence of mosaics of the late-third century in Britain , it has been customary to assign the first mosaics of this diagnostic Orpheus sequence to this period ( see above ) . |
| 20 | ( To a first approximation , one is likely to encounter the first type if f is a little higher than f and the second type if f is a little lower than f . ) |
| 21 | Suppose also that the company estimates that it will cost 200,000 to produce the first unit and that , by watchful management , an 80 per cent learning rate will be achieved . |
| 22 | Merv Hughes hit an enormous six and Mark Taylor made 164 to become the first player to score 1,000 runs in the course of his first season of Tests , but Australia 's batsmen did not escape the day without damage from an attack weakened by injury to both its opening bowlers . |
| 23 | President Elias Hrawi , Prime Minister Umar Karami and the president of the National Assembly , Hussain al-Hussaini , visited Damascus on Oct. 17 to attend the first session of the Lebanese-Syrian Supreme Council . |
| 24 | There are many to argue the first point . |
| 25 | Even though workers are prepared to accept a general reduction in the level of real wages , they are unwilling to take the first step of accepting money wage cuts in case other workers with whom they regard themselves as comparable fail to follow suit . |
| 26 | It is obviously helpful to make the first flights in smooth weather , with a clear horizon . |
| 27 | The development , first reported in The Scotsman three years ago , opens up the possibility of being able to treat the first signs of breast cancer when the chances of success are highest . |
| 28 | Unfortunately , Wesker was struck by another ( albeit minor ) disaster : Teomi was not able to attend the first day of rehearsals because Wesker had forgotten , when writing his schedule , that it was also Yom Kippur . |
| 29 | We can say with certainty that we would be able to mount the first kind of display ; but at the moment we can not be so certain about the travelling display which , although the more attractive proposition , has much more significant resource implications . |
| 30 | I 've been lucky to be able to launch the first concept of dread disease insurance , in South Africa you might have heard about us . |