Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he puts it , with a certain dispassionate irony , in a letter of early 1870 : " I observe how my philosophical , moral and scholarly endeavours strive towards a single goal and that I may perhaps become the first philologist ever to achieve wholeness . " |
| 2 | That last , familiar , word was used by Nietzsche himself precisely in this context and at this time : " I observe how my philosophical , moral and scholarly endeavours strive towards a single goal and that I may perhaps become the first philologist ever to achieve wholeness . " |
| 3 | Manager Howard Kendall said : ‘ It 's better Paul has this done now and he should only miss the first two weeks of pre-season training . ’ |
| 4 | Wrangham comments : ‘ We may thus find the first evidence that so-called abnormal sexual behaviour may have a biological function ’ ; but he points out that a number of issues need to be resolved . |
| 5 | Well I 'll just see the first part of Eastenders if I can cos I 've seen the second part . |
| 6 | The act of writing can be difficult at times , but he predicts that he 'll soon become the first Parkinson 's Disease patient to abandon drugs altogether as he slowly leaves a life of disability behind him . |
| 7 | It would n't last , because it never did , and the end of October might even bring the first tentative snows of winter — but until then people would continue to be caught out , and to shiver and sweat as a penance for their gullibility . |
| 8 | No half day Saturdays , half day Saturdays , yes and then er I , I used to stay waiting for mother to come and my sister er to do the shopping in Willenhall cos they would n't shop anywhere else , and then erm my brother used to come with his cycle and er I used to carry a lot of the shopping back and my brother used to push a lot on his , on his cycle and mother and my sister used to stay down and have another walk around , but we 'd got to walk it back I 'd come back on the wagonette so or just after the buses started but er I 'll never forget the first time the bus ran it was pouring with rain and my sister was standing in front of me and she 'd got a new mac on and of course we were getting very wet and there was a scramble to get on the bus and the lady in front of her had got a bag of flour and of course the bag burst and went all down her |
| 9 | Yes , I do enjoy living here , but it 's very different from England and , I must admit , there are times when I miss things back home so much I could literally grab the first plane out of here . ’ |
| 10 | She could only see the first few rows beyond the footlights , but knowing they were there was enough . |
| 11 | He 'd just become the first Briton to win two world titles on foreign soil and added : ‘ I want to be the first British fighter to win three world titles at different weights . ’ |
| 12 | And now all of them have months which are always the same length of four weeks exactly four weeks so you 'd always know the first of the month would be a Sunday or whatever day you choose to start on and the seventh would always be a Sunday and the fourteenth would be a Sunday and so on . |
| 13 | But experts warned that any market fall could still jeopardise the first day 's trading . |
| 14 | But experts warned that any market fall could still jeopardise the first day 's trading . |
| 15 | She could clearly remember the first day that Scott had shown her around , could remember being impressed by the overwhelming glamour of it all . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , both Origen and Augustine could also presuppose the first view of inspiration . |
| 17 | Ever since the spring of 1918 , when pacifist hopes that a ‘ peace between equals ’ could indeed turn the First World War into a ‘ war to end war ’ had been finally dashed , there had been no convincing reason to believe that a second global bloodletting could be avoided . |
| 18 | Carl Channell could never forget the first North briefing he saw , one of his contra slide shows in the White House . |
| 19 | If enough wagons can be obtained with the necessary finance , this railway may well become the first to run such a train . |
| 20 | The idea being is that they would now spend the first year at college , possibly we then would look at them better and |
| 21 | In the event , heaven forbid , that her business should not succeed , she would indeed take the first local job she was offered . |
| 22 | She would never forget the first time , balanced high on the steep roof of the house , huddled from the wind against the chimney-stack , Fenna 's great shadow hovering over her , although Fenna had surely not been so hugely vast then as he was now , his shadow had not obliterated the stars , threatening their very existence . |
| 23 | Many executives who would not consider these second and third options would actively welcome the first . |
| 24 | United Microelectronics Corporation will apparently produce the first commercial version of the thing using a 0.6-micron CMOS process trying for a 50MHz , 39 MIPS part in the second half of the year . |
| 25 | An oval orbit would falsify the first but not the second , whereas any orbit that falsifies the second will also falsify the first . |
| 26 | The exhibition will also present the first stage of a restoration programme which will cover the 150 photographs displayed . |
| 27 | The auction will also see the first work by Antonio Lopez Garcia to be put up for sale in London or New York and his ‘ Ataud ’ of 1957 is estimated at £180–250,000 ( $315–440,000 ) . |
| 28 | If the information is acceptable , LIFESPAN will automatically display the first page of information , as illustrated in figure 6.19 . |
| 29 | Well we have production course you have made your appointment to see Mr and Mrs who are existing clients of , you will now conduct the first appointment starting with greeting and appropriate sociability which is the first part of step one , through to producing the C C Q and then further copy pages two and four of the attached C C Q in your booklet , so two and four are er we 've got four and two , the personal details and may be the wrong way round there , so it 's advisable to say you complete the first part of it , page two and then the employment details okay , so you doing a little bit of exploring there so if you like you can be doing all of step one and a little bit of step two , buying in this particular role playing . |
| 30 | The North-East may seem remote geographically but they are certainly great thinkers and doers. you will now find the first ever mention of the word ‘ Medau ’ included int he latest edition ( published 12th May in Edinburgh ) of Chambers 20th Century Dictionary , on page 781 , inserted between ‘ Medal ’ and ‘ Meddle ’ viz. |