Example sentences of "[noun pl] to be [verb] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | A diagnosis of psychosomatic illness or hypochondria is very largely a diagnosis of exclusion — it requires all other possibilities to be excluded first . |
| 2 | I submit that there are logistical , financial , and indeed ethical questions to be addressed first . |
| 3 | Indeed , one representative of a finance house pointed out that there was a benefit in allowing the short-term debts to be cleared first ; it gave the debtor a light at the end of the tunnel , an achievable goal to aim at . |
| 4 | ‘ There are one or two forms to be signed first … ’ |
| 5 | In this case the seller will probably require some statement of the efforts that the acquirer will take to collect the debts , provision for unallocated payments received from debtors to be attributed first to pre-completion obligations , and a right to take over the enforcement of debts which are not collected within a period of , say , six months . |
| 6 | Other doctor 's patients are having their operations postponed in order to allow the patients of G P fundholders to be treated first . |