Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [art] first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Note that unc and unc can not both be zero , or A would be singular and R would not exist ; similarly for unc We choose a nonzero element from these four -say unc and then unc The last step is not arbitrary : we must exclude the first three rows ( containing units ) , so that the only choice for pivot in the next step is D44 , which can not be zero . |
| 2 | BEFORE THE YEAR is out Paris should see the first sprouting of architect Jean Nouvel 's Tour Sans Fins . |
| 3 | I must quote the first two subsections : |
| 4 | Registered health visitors must have a first level qualification in order to undertake postbasic health visitor training . |
| 5 | To qualify , the 3 digits revealed on your seal must match the first three digits of the Early Reply Bonus code on your Prize Draw Eligibility Record . |
| 6 | To qualify , the 3 digits revealed on your seal must match the first three digits of the Early Reply Bonus code on your Prize Draw Eligibility Record . |
| 7 | It follows an editorial policy that believes foreign news should lead the first three pages , that matters of national interest should be philosophically debated in the newspaper 's columns , and that half a page of sport either side of the weekend is enough . |
| 8 | As a pattern making and using system the mind must accept the first acceptable answer . |
| 9 | If we had five hundred years on earth we could say , ‘ OK , I 'll spend the first hundred years doing nothing in particular , the next hundred learning about life , the next hundred building a relationship , the next hundred working and my last hundred in leisure . ’ |
| 10 | I 'll read the first two verses . |
| 11 | SCO boasts it 'll have the first COSE-compliant desktop on the market . |
| 12 | I mean you think , when you sign y with your insurers thing say well I 'll have this and I 'll pay the first fifty |
| 13 | In this second category we might place the first seventeen sonnets , with their persuasion to marriage , a sequence that may in fact draw some of its arguments and images from a model epistle , Erasmus 's Encomium Matrimonii , Englished by Sir Thomas Wilson as An Epistle to perswade a yong Gentleman to mariage , devised by Erasmus , in the behalfe of his freend . |
| 14 | This may provide the first observable category of classroom behaviour for a workable schedule . |
| 15 | Of the verderers he could see nothing , but so strong was his sense of present danger that Allen remained half-hidden watching until the sun came up over the forest and the wet rock slabs of the Waste shone like glass and he could feel the first faint warmth of the sun 's beams striking on his face . |
| 16 | Deprived of the usual dash of digital and chemical additives , it could become the first easy-listening album for the post-E , no power generation . |
| 17 | Two men who helped George Blake , a Soviet spy , to escape from prison in 1966 could become the first British authors in recent history to have royalties seized by the courts . |
| 18 | Sir : Just before John Paul II was elected there was speculation that Cardinal Hume could become the first non-Italian Pope for several centuries . |
| 19 | A footprint in a muddy field could provide the first real lead for police hunting the man who 's become known as the horse ripper . |
| 20 | I could visualize the first restless stirring among tribes on the steppes of Central Asia , then the terrifying eruption of hordes of unknown people : lurching , creaking wagons , unkempt women and children , squat , slit-eyed men in padded garments , innumerable horses , felt tents , troops of mounted archers forever on the move . |
| 21 | * Palfrey 's full name is Horatio Benedict de Palfrey , but , as he explains earlier , ‘ you may forget the first two ( names ) immediately , and somehow nobody has ever remembered the ‘ de ’ at all . ’ |
| 22 | The grandmother of a Cornish smallholder 's family would stay the first three days of each week ‘ to help my mother to do the washing and buttermaking … and to help to do the mending ; ’ and when the children were not at school they would walk the mile and a half back to granny 's own ‘ little thatched cottage . ’ |
| 23 | In consultation with Associate Producer Mervyn Pinfield , who would direct the first four episodes , Whitaker won an agreement that everything should be done to portray the Sensorites as timid , sympathetic creatures , leaving true villainy to the beast present , if mostly dormant , in the hearts of men . |
| 24 | Soon he would smell the first sour tang of winter on the sea breezes . |
| 25 | According to early ethological studies , it seemed that the young of certain birds like ducks and chickens would follow the first moving object they met and form a lasting attachment to it ; also that this attachment could take place only within a sharply limited period early on in development , and that it would affect all subsequent relationships . |
| 26 | Recent palaeomagnetic results , suggesting that there are persistent preferred longitudinal paths for the virtual geomagnetic pole ( VGP ) during reversals , would provide the first direct evidence of the solid mantle 's influence on the core , although their statistical significance has been disputed . |
| 27 | In New York , television computer projections suggested Mr David Dinkins , a Democrat , would become the first black mayor of the city , beating the Republican , Mr Rudolph Giuliani . |
| 28 | The announcement by Gray , 49 , caused widespread consternation amongst political commentators as his successful 12-year congressional career had led many to predict that he would become the first black Speaker of the House . |
| 29 | For example , the following code sequence would invert the first 20 characters on line 0 starting a column 0 . |
| 30 | In any case , we would recommend the first two categories be combined to prevent the separation of landscape and nature conservation criteria . |