Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] to the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | A second legal mortgage can be created by leasing the land to the second mortgagee for a term longer by at least one day than the term limited to the first mortgagee . |
| 2 | I can see nothing in principle to prevent a contemnor applying to the first instance court to be released from custody on the ground that the failure to serve him with the committal order has kept him in ignorance of the contempts for which he has been imprisoned and that , in the circumstances , justice requires his release . |
| 3 | Easy rock leads to the first bulge , where a swing left under the overhang gains a glorious hand-jamming crack . |
| 4 | This can be done by apply the formulae of Chapter 6 or , directly , by noting that replacing x 2 + σ 2 = 7 with x 2 + σ 2 = 3 can be effected by replacing σ 2 with σ 2 + 4 , so that the equation corresponding to the first row : becomes which is equivalent to replacing the RHS with 4 . |
| 5 | WHILE expensively-assembled Blackburn and Derby faltered in the Second Division promotion race , Charlton , who have no home or money to spend on players , continued their unlikely attempt to return to the First Division with a 2–1 win at FA Cup finalists Sunderland , writes Christopher Davies . |
| 6 | a reference to the first of Sir Walter Scott 's Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft contributed to the first number of Murray 's Family Library ( 1830 ) . |
| 7 | The track continues west along the edge of the escarpment before turning left to the first of many little lakes — Parabaun . |
| 8 | The thaw in US-Soviet relations and the unwillingness of both super-powers to prolong the war led to the first publicly acknowledged round of talks between Najibullah and sections of the mujaheddin alliance in November [ see p. 37855 ] . |
| 9 | A flight of granite steps to his right led to the first floor of one of the buildings and an arrow carried the word , ‘ Office ’ . |
| 10 | Before the dummy is placed on the table , declarer 's left hand opponent leads to the first trick . |
| 11 | Senate set up a working party under Professor Furmston , Council asked consultants Coopers & Lybrand Deloitte to look at the matter , convocation set up an ad hoc working group to respond to the first two reports , and the Vice-Chancellor produced a report for Council which drew together the common threads in all three . |
| 12 | collective title given to the first section of the final collected edition of Sketches by Boz , the edition published in monthly parts 1837–9 and in volume form in May 1839 . |
| 13 | Plans to expand the Windscale site with a major new development led to the first setpiece confrontation between the burgeoning antinuclear movement and the nuclear industry across the polite tables of a public inquiry . |
| 14 | The direct evidence belongs to the first century B.C. ( Diod. 5.22.4 ) . |
| 15 | The impact of the oil crisis and its associated inflation led to the first actual decline in income for OECD countries for over a quarter of a century . |
| 16 | In my view , when the truth of representations is being considered , no objection can be taken to the request relating to the first audit , nor to the second audit since the latter may well reveal material relevant to the conduct of the company 's business before acquisition and after acquisition in a way which reflects on the earlier conduct of the business . |
| 17 | The enthalpy corresponds to the first electron affinity of chlorine ( see section 3.1 ) . |
| 18 | The wife came to the first cavern and saw the dreadful dragon , stretched out all along the sea , shooting out foam and spume from her nostrils , lashing up the waves with her tail . |
| 19 | They were all equally carefully examined by Philip Corder , John Gillam and myself , and there was a unanimous verdict that every sherd belonged to the first century . |
| 20 | Although you may decide to begin with a fade in , the circumstances may leave you with insufficient time for these niceties , and a crash-in cut to the first shot probably sets the mood for the sequence better in any case . |
| 21 | When the Civil Service proceeded to the first comprehensive retirement programme in the 1850s , the justification for imposing the cowardly administrative convenience of an age barrier was how invidious it would have been to attempt any form of assessment . |
| 22 | The second factor relates to the first and concerns the make up of the team . |
| 23 | Both arguments failed with the Court responding to the first by holding that the existing notification procedures were enough , there being no need for mandatory notification in all cases : |
| 24 | Taking the menu out of the nearest gentleman 's hand , she laid it flat on the table , and with her pencil pointed to the first item , then mimed drinking . |
| 25 | The starting pulse also triggers the first delay circuit , which delays the pulse for a time , during which the motor moves to the first phase switching position . |
| 26 | The quest for louder reproduction led to the first ‘ amplifying gramophones ’ . |
| 27 | The first man cycled to the first mark and left the cycle and hurried on , on foot . |
| 28 | ‘ There is no magic left in the festive practices of Oxford , or Grimley , or wherever-the Morrismen and Mummers no magic unless the mind that enacts the festival has a gate opened to the first forest- ’ |
| 29 | The council later abandoned its plans to widen the highway and the reversion passed to the first defendants , who were not a highway authority . |
| 30 | This ambiguous situation led to the first English clash with Spain . |