Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like the Common Law , the rules of Equity are judicial law , i.e. to find them we must look in the first instances to the decisions of the judges who have administered Equity . |
| 2 | Following a request from an Age Concern organisation , we will also be producing short guidelines on why older people should vote in the first place . |
| 3 | Before moving on to the more advanced aspects of wave riding let us consider what should happen in the first attempts . |
| 4 | The onus of making that interpersonal connection between their differing maps of the mind must rest in the first place with the staff , not with the student . |
| 5 | If they voice this concern to the general practitioner or health visitor this may result in the first step being taken in the identification of a visual problem , but unfortunately there can be instances in which the defective vision is not detected until the child has a pre-school medical . |
| 6 | They 're not really so complicated as perhaps they might look in the first place . |
| 7 | Hence there is a problem of how cooperation could evolve in the first place , although it would be stable once it had evolved . |
| 8 | The difficulty , of course , lies in imagining how such a complex behavioural syndrome , which is stable only when complete , could arise in the first place . |
| 9 | Despite the difficulty of imagining how a behaviour involving the three components outlined in the last paragraph could arise in the first place , I think it is quite possible that the explanation of stable age queues in animals may be of this kind . |
| 10 | Wait , I 've got an instant who 's taking part in the conversations and you could type in the first names of those people and then again you 'll get back some why the use of the first name . |
| 11 | Time was when the South West would be filled with Gloucester boys … only two Paul Holford and Dave Sims made it on Saturday and there was nothing they could do in the first half to stop the north from taking control … a try from Jim Mallinder gave them a 13-6 lead at half-time … |
| 12 | ‘ This time last year we had question marks against some players — whether they could play in the First Division . |
| 13 | You may hear in the first syllable of ‘ photography ’ , in the second syllable of ‘ photograph ’ and in the third syllable of ‘ photographer ’ , but the brain recognises links between these a vowels and , and respectively , and supplies underlying vowels which change into the appropriate sound as the stress pattern changes . |
| 14 | But I would think , I mean , ideally we need four I would think in the first instance er two of those and two of those and then the inners . |
| 15 | Then the strategy ‘ cooperate with your neighbour if he cooperates ; otherwise defect ’ would be an ESS , although I have some difficulty in seeing how it would evolve in the first place . |
| 16 | This liability would fall in the first instance on the resident owner , then the resident tenant and so on . |
| 17 | Under the new schedule the period Feb. 29-March 28 was set aside for the registration of voters and a constitutional referendum would be held on March 18 ; municipal elections would follow in the first half of April and legislative elections would be held in two rounds on May 17 and May 31 . |
| 18 | There had been intense speculation over whether or not Rawlings would compete in the first free presidential contest since his return to power in a military coup in December 1981 ( having previously chaired the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council which had ruled Ghana from June to September 1979 — see pp. 30437-51 ; 31477-86 ) . |
| 19 | Yeah , I would have in the first place , but it was just impossible ! |
| 20 | The aversion argument was extracted from its literary context and elevated into a full-blown defence of crudity in the Oz case : " One of the arguments was that many of the illustrations in Oz were so grossly lewd and unpleasant that they would shock in the first instance and then would tend to repel . |
| 21 | The 25-person , privately-owned White Cross is busy setting up overseas operations : a Dallas , Texas-based office is due to open by the end of the year and a Far East office will follow in the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 22 | The procedure is very informal ; a short note or even a telephone call will suffice in the first instance as we are mainly interested in concepts rather than with detailed descriptions . |
| 23 | BAYWATCH couple Billy Warlock and Erika Eleniak will marry in the first episode of the next series , their last appearance in the hit TV show . |
| 24 | The swifts will depart in the first week of August . |
| 25 | When property passes on death , it will go in the first instance to the executor appointed by will , or the administrator appointed by the court , who are charged with the duty of dealing with it and transferring it to the persons entitled ( see p. 114 ) . |
| 26 | The Soviets have announced that one of the two Indian cosmonauts in training at Star City since the autumn will fly in the first half of 1984 . |
| 27 | I think that teachers need to know people that they can turn to for further advice , but that they could familiarize themselves much more with what , as it were , they can do in the first instance by screening children , by using there are number of published materials , learning inventories , that can be used to discover whether a child has some difficulties that might point in this direction of dyslexia . |