Example sentences of "[adv] to the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Service may be effected on the solicitor : ( 1 ) if by delivering the document at , or sending it by first-class post to the solicitor 's address for service , service by post is deemed to have been effected at the time the letter would have been delivered in the ordinary course of post ( s 7 of the Interpretations Act 1978 ) : or ( 2 ) where the solicitor 's address for service includes a numbered box at a document exchange in a county court , and the document is left at that exchange or at an exchange which transmits daily to the first exchange , it is then deemed to have been served on the second day after the day on which it was left , but any day on which the court office in which one or both exchanges is situated is shut shall not be taken into account ( Ord 1 , r 3 ; Ord 2 , r 5(1A) ; Ord 7 , rr 1(1) ( b ) , 1(3) , and ( 4 ) ) . |
| 2 | The findings were drawn from the study of both cohorts but relate only to the first year of the course . |
| 3 | One ‘ sweetener ’ , deliberately leaked beforehand , is likely to be the widening of the 20 per cent income tax , which currently applies only to the first £2,000 of taxable income . |
| 4 | Although the obligation to provide instruction about maintenance is to be limited only to the first occupier , it is likely that subsequent purchasers will require the information to be passed on every time the property is sold . |
| 5 | Bob Champion had been advised by Fred Winter , who had twice ridden the winner of the Grand National , to take a pull halfway to the first fence in order to prevent his mount from rushing at it . |
| 6 | We have six to give away to the first names drawn from the postbag on 7 March . |
| 7 | We have 15 to give away to the first readers whose named are pulled out of the bag on July 8 . |
| 8 | We have 60 bottles to give away to the first readers to answer the following question and send their answer , with their name and address , to : . |
| 9 | We have 250 jars of peach halves , each worth £3.95 , to give away to the first readers to write in . |
| 10 | We have 250 copies to give away to the first readers to write to Noilly Prat Booklet Offer , . |
| 11 | We have 500 booklets to give away to the first readers to write to John West/1H , Gramby Marketing Services Ltd , School Lane , Denham Maasey , Altrincham , Cheshire WA14 5SZ . |
| 12 | Normally , it would cost you £2.49 , but we 've 200 to give away to the first readers who write in . |
| 13 | In the winter he plays with some of them most weeks , either at Oswestry or Aberdovey , where he has a mobile home close to the first tee . |
| 14 | Further to the first point of order , is it an order for the press to hear about the proposed rise in prescription charges before this house and would n't it have not been better if the Secretary of State to come and made a statement and we could have questioned her about it . |
| 15 | ‘ He says bring them straight to the first tee . |
| 16 | He only ever puts the gas on half-way to the first mark on the knob and in the winter keeps the central heating down to sixty degrees : " I sit with the blanket round me . " |
| 17 | project , while it is still uncompleted , and the taking up of another , which is itself broken off , unfinished , to return sometimes to the first task , sometimes to yet another , has all the marks of disorder . |
| 18 | In other words , a no to the first question . |
| 19 | They can go upstairs to the first floor , almost directly above this passage ; in this case they walk up a gentle incline and arrive at the west door leading from location 54 . |
| 20 | It is not surprise that ‘ deep green ’ environmental groups , closer to the first view , find it difficult to communicate their concerns to businesses and governments who feel more at home with the second . |
| 21 | But I am looking forward to the first leg . |
| 22 | I SUPPOSE a lot of people are waiting to greet the first cuckoo of spring , but I was looking forward to the first hedgehog of spring . |
| 23 | The family may look forward to the first visit home , assuming that everything can go on exactly where it left off . |
| 24 | No , they say sadly to the first question ; and Yes , most definitely , to the second . |