Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let us note , too , that coming as Marx did to English economics after he had studied Hegel 's philosophy of history , he could come with a mind predisposed to fit the first into a grand dialectical scheme such as the second propounded . |
| 2 | Oracle Corp plans to release the first benchmarks run on its parallel server technology within the next few weeks . |
| 3 | The acoustic front-end failed to detect the first vowel . |
| 4 | Western drug enforcement agents are trying to persuade the Bhutto government to enter , but such a move threatens to spill the first blood of Benazir 's fledgling democracy . |
| 5 | Armed envoys of Life President Dr Hastings Banda had apprehended Chakufwa Chihana , the British-educated trade union leader mandated to sow the first seeds of a Malawi spring , and the Catholic church , a powerful ally , had fallen silent . |
| 6 | The Insured Person has to bear the first £25 of each and every claim , except in respect of claims for deposits only where the Insured Person has to bear the first £10 of each and every claim . |
| 7 | The Insured Person has to bear the first £25 of each and every claim , except in respect of claims for deposits only where the Insured Person has to bear the first £10 of each and every claim . |
| 8 | The Insured Person has to bear the first £25 of each and every claim . |
| 9 | The Insured Person has to bear the first £25 of each and every claim . |
| 10 | The Insured Person has to bear the first £25 of each and every claim . |
| 11 | The principles and example of the Revolution helped to inspire the first successful slave revolt in the Caribbean in Haiti , as well as the political independence movements of South America . |
| 12 | If DOS fails to match the first word of your input to its list of internal commands , it will start looking on the hard disk for a COM , EXE or BAT file with that name . |
| 13 | This year politics and economics conspired to make the first almost impossible . |
| 14 | Sharp Corp aims to become the first Japanese company to make colour liquid crystal displays overseas when it starts manufacturing its super-twisted nematic displays — the lower-cost , lower performance colour displays — at its Sharp Microelectronics Technology Inc in Camas , Washington . |
| 15 | Of these societies ( outside those areas of disseminated settlement where the parish tended to become the first unit beyond the family and that of those neighbouring farmers who helped each other out at harvest and ploughing ) the most significant was the pueblo . |
| 16 | And , at the start of the 1940s , a baseball administrator named Branch Rickey began his search for the man destined to become the first black player in a white team . |
| 17 | The audience held their breath in one collective sigh as the orchestra began to play the first few bars of ‘ Strolling with Nancy ’ . |
| 18 | The inability of the States of Western Europe to play a decisive role in the solution of these new questions was shown clearly by the impotent resentment with which the French government had to watch the first partition of Poland in 1772 and the Russian annexation of the Crimea in 1783–84 . |
| 19 | The government intended to achieve the first aim primarily through council housing , relegating privately-built housing to a secondary position . |
| 20 | The chance of the monkey happening to get the first letter — M — right is therefore 1 in 27 . |
| 21 | Governors at Gillbrook School in South Bank hope to become the first grant maintained school in the North-East . |
| 22 | The SPAR system seems to represent the first explicit attempt to work out solutions to all four problems . |
| 23 | Shot entirely on location in South Central LA , the film aims to give the first true picture of what life is like in the ‘ LA Hood ’ . |
| 24 | The company expects to unveil the first one in the region in York at the Clifton Moor Retail Park within months . |
| 25 | Meanwhile , the company expects to ship the first MicroSparc clones next month starting at $3,790 for the Compstation LC and $4,690 for the LX , both undercutting Sun . |
| 26 | The term he had spent at school trying to understand the first thing about physics had been wasted . |
| 27 | Empress Software claims to have the first RDBMS and 4GL running on MACH on a 486 : The port was done for TRW Financial Systems which is standardising on MACH . |
| 28 | NCR Corp claims to have the first mainframe-class system using Intel Corp 's Pentium chip with the launch of its System 3555 symmetrical multiprocessor , announced yesterday . |
| 29 | NCR Corp claims to have the first mainframe-class system using Intel Corp 's Pentium chip with the launch of its System 3555 symmetrical multiprocessor , announced today . |
| 30 | We do not need to wait for new efficient technology : as Stewart Boyle described in ‘ More work for less energy ’ ( New Scientist , 5 August 1989 ) , the technology exists to take the first step towards the targets we have set to save energy and fossil fuel , and to cut back on carbon dioxide emissions . |