Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Great Powers thus pressed their territorial control outwards to encompass for the first time virtually the whole surface of the globe , to centralize the world on a few centres of power . |
| 2 | He had felt no pain , nor had any indication that , even though he appeared fit enough to play in the First Division , he was about to become a victim of coronary problems . |
| 3 | Mr Van de Velde stresses than any player not fit enough to play in the first round of the Premiership on April 26 will not be considered for the final . |
| 4 | In the year of revolutionary upheaval It had seen some of its predictions fulfilled , and a movement created which , as it developed , had less and less to do with the first publication out of the underground . |
| 5 | If you think about it , as you were n't strong enough to respond on the first round , you can hardly want to redouble now to play . |
| 6 | The environment working group of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) is finally to meet for the first time — 20 years after it was first constituted . |
| 7 | ‘ They are given a topic straight away to revise for the first exam — which is at 9am the following morning . |
| 8 | When would-be television stars realised that just to get through the first round involved completing a detailed questionnaire their enthusiasm waned somewhat . |
| 9 | Voters lined up before dawn in Chad yesterday to participate in the first national election in 20 years in this war-torn former French colony . |
| 10 | While stainless is tough and harder to scratch in the first place , once it does become marked the scratch is permanent , unlike a mark on silver-plated cutlery which can be removed by re-plating . |
| 11 | All three comital functions are documented in Charles the Bald 's reign , though royal instructions have a good deal more to say about the first and second than about the third . |
| 12 | The 1900s were also to see for the first time deaf women beginning to acquire their own identity through achievement by their own talent although not one as yet played any prominent part in deaf organisations which remained the preserve of the deaf male . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm going to do what I came here to do in the first place . |
| 14 | What was really getting to him was the fact that alien-fever was proving hard to eradicate in the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist . |
| 15 | Wolves provide Bull , who has yet to play in the First Division , with passes over the midfield and crosses from overlapping full-backs . |
| 16 | Wales have yet to qualify for the first round of the NatWest Trophy , but looking at the results from this year 's competition , perhaps they were well out of it . |
| 17 | He ought therefore to disappear at the first opportunity , especially since the purpose of his stay , that of meeting Katja Müller , appeared to have lost its point … |
| 18 | As the hon. Gentleman knows , we set up the National Rivers Authority specifically to respond in the first instance to the sort of pollution incidents to which he refers — this one is a very serious incident . |