Example sentences of "[be] made [prep] the first " in BNC.

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1 On the date when delivery should have been made under the first contract , the market price was 70s .
2 But , by transforming , progress has also been made towards the first three goals : the batches are more symmetrical and bell-shaped , and some of the outliers in the original batch were not really unusual values , but merely a product of the upward straggle of the raw numbers .
3 I revised a relatively brief article in line with the referees ' comments only to receive a new set of comments which raised points that could have been made at the first submission .
4 THE draw has been made for the first round of this year 's Harp Masters International Hockey tournament , run by Annadale Hockey club .
5 But how do you find out about whether a planning application has been made in the first place ?
6 The suggestion of a ‘ social contract ’ between States had already been made in the first half of the seventeenth century by Grotius .
7 Bargains began to be made for the first time , and it became readily apparent to the men that whatever rights they thought they had lost , had been transposed by an orderly system which benefited them as well as the Mineral Lord .
8 The programmes will be subject to review with the passage of time but no substantial additions to them will be made for the first six years ( except for changes required because of matters outside of governing body control and except for minor alterations to equipment ) .
9 In the case of a buy-out , disclosure should be made at the first board meeting at which the proposed buy-out is considered , and should be made to the full board and not to a committee of it .
10 Enquiries should be made in the first instance to the Academic Registrar .
11 The most powerful potential weapon in Parliament 's hands remains its control over clauses enabling regulations to be made in the first place .
12 The decision should be made in the first instance as if it were easy to be made .
13 Firstly , how did this extraordinary mistake came to be made in the first instance by the Department of Transport .
14 CHANGES SHOULD NOT NORMALLY BE MADE AFTER THE FIRST TWO WEEKS OF THE TEACHING PERIOD .
15 Each controversial assertion is treated as if it were being made for the first time .
16 In Mary 's reign , between 1542 and 1574 , when the civil war which followed her deposition was finally over , there were twenty-five large-scale bonds involving groups of people , five of which were made in the first six years of the minority , as well as the thirty-six individual bonds made mainly for political purposes by Arran and Mary of Guise , and the two by Beaton which , in view of the comment by John Knox about the extensive number of his bonds , can only be a small proportion of the total .
17 Contact is made in the first instance with the manager nominated by the vendor 's representative .
18 More important , in 1762 recruitment was made for the first time a direct concern of the government , taking it out of the hands of the regimental officers who had hitherto controlled it .
19 It 's just difficult to know why the final decision was changed and where it was made in the first place .
20 A distinction was made in the first chapter between three types of risk , objective , estimated and subjective , and the assumption was made that subjective risk is closely related to the concept of arousal as it has been used in much memory research .
21 But once some set of rules has been established in this way , we might well think it more important that these rules be publicly regarded as settled , so that people can plan accordingly , than that they be the best rules that could have been found ; this provides a reason why courts should leave the rule untouched even when they think the wrong choice was made in the first instance . "
22 The clinical diagnosis of colorectal carcinoma was made after the first assessment by the clinician in 13 cases ; four of five cases with carcinoma and nine of 88 without carcinoma giving a sensitivity of 80% and specificity of 90% .
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