Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] the first [num] " 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 I must quote the first two subsections :
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 . ’
7 I 'll read the first two verses .
8 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
9 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 .
10 * 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 . ’
11 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 . ’
12 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 .
13 For example , the following code sequence would invert the first 20 characters on line 0 starting a column 0 .
14 In any case , we would recommend the first two categories be combined to prevent the separation of landscape and nature conservation criteria .
15 Even if we rejected integrity and based our political activity only on fairness , justice , and procedural due process , we would find the first two virtues sometimes pulling in opposite directions .
16 Italtel SpA is to install around 400,000 lines for Telecom Argentina SA over the next three years in a deal worth $600m : it says it will install the first 58,000 lines this year and the rest of them by 1996
17 We will give the first 100 people who apply a FREE copy of our broadsheet on " Pesticides : Waging War on our Countryside " .
18 Dicks will miss the first two of those games .
19 Repeat the process for squares 91 to 135 then 136 to 180 and you will have the first 38 rows of squares printed over the full 180 needles , complete with your colour key .
20 We will have the first sevens tournament in Prague in August and we hope to be able to organise sevens competitions before top soccer matches .
21 He will challenge and receive no answer , and he will join the first two .
22 In addition , the Dip.HE may form the first two years of this course pattern .
23 ‘ I 'm now 36th in the European merit order , but I feel I can make the first 25 ’ , said big hitter Clarke before teeing off in Switzerland .
24 So we can do the first two .
25 We can do the first two and then
26 Note that here the submatrix unc is unc and we can take the first two columns as linearly independent ; the third is obtained by subtracting half the first from the second .
27 because he can read the first two books , now how they 'll do it with him , he 'll have to just look at the pictures and he 'll go back to square one , and I 've had him actually writing his words , doing letter formation , A , B , C , D
28 ‘ He thinks I can manage the first two years ' bills at Dickie 's new school , but after that I 'll be cleaned out , so God alone knows what 'll happen .
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