Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should you wish to paint hardwood for the first time , it will be necessary to coat it with an aluminium primer . |
| 2 | WHY IS IT EASIER TO LOSE WEIGHT IN THE FIRST WEEK OR TWO ? |
| 3 | This makes it easier to lose weight in the first few weeks , at a rate which can be up to 4lb per week . |
| 4 | Our informants had a well-articulated theory of the relation between ‘ work-in-school ’ and success in a life career that allowed them to see work-in-school as the first rung of their adult moral careers . |
| 5 | According to the draft rules , a candidate would need to win at least 200 out of 300 votes to secure election in the first round or in a second round five days later . |
| 6 | If , when you have read the letter overleaf , you decide to accept responsibility for the first £50 of claims please fill in the boxes below . |
| 7 | I wish to accept responsibility for the first £50 of all claims under Section 1 — Buildings of the above policy ( other than claims arising from Subsidence , where special conditions apply , or Fire or Property Owners Liability ) . |
| 8 | Their ability to attract custom in the first place relies heavily on ( a ) comprehensive , colourful and well-produced catalogues , and ( b ) the use of part-time agents , usually housewives , working on a commission basis . |
| 9 | In June 1984 , small businesses were also required to provide security for the first time under the scheme , which obviously deterred many potential entrepreneurs and damaged the usefulness of the scheme . |
| 10 | It would be a marvellous feat if the 22-year-old swimming pool attendant from Wakefield was to supercede Hare at the first attempt . |
| 11 | Drink up : Euro Disney has begun to serve alcohol for the first time at four of its restaurants as it seeks to stem heavy losses from weak attendance . |
| 12 | Hysteroscopy and endometrial biopsy have an important role in the management of abnormal uterine bleeding , but all young sexually active women should have a cervical swab taken to detect chlamydia in the first instance , irrespective of the sexual history . |
| 13 | Section 1 describes how to install LIFESPAN for the first time on your VAX , |
| 14 | The campaign was dominated by the radical-conservative contest between Yeltsin and Ryzkhov and the questions of how many votes the Russian Communist Party could mobilize on Ryzhkov 's behalf and whether Yeltsin would secure enough votes to win election on the first round . |
| 15 | Just as project schools may have specified objectives in their proposals in order to win a grant , so the initiators of the project may themselves have chosen to word the project aims in a particular way in order to win funding in the first place . |
| 16 | However , it is obviously preferable to avoid conflict in the first place by integrating traffic with the urban framework . |
| 17 | But his first job is to assemble a side before attempting to win promotion at the first attempt . |
| 18 | Lukic , normally rock solid , punched the ball into his own net to allow Rangers to draw level in the first leg of their European Cup tie . |
| 19 | A small amount of Italian may be included to give bulk in the first year . |
| 20 | Furthermore , legislation expressly intended to give effect to the first stage of Economic and Monetary Union has already been enacted , following the decision of the European Council in Madrid in June 1989 that that stage should begin on 1 July 1990 . |
| 21 | They 're trying to interrupt a speaker to give information during the first round of the World Student Debating Championships . |
| 22 | And then irritation began to give way to the first tricklings of fear . |
| 23 | It was no coincidence that the majority of the French delegates were members of the little-known Le Societe Pereire , which sought to recognise Pereire as the first teacher of the deaf in that country — Pereire being a man who practised teaching by the oral method . |
| 24 | Bourgeois literature was unequivocally condemned on three counts : first , for its failure to voice opposition to the First World War , a failure in other words to disclose the true reality of the war as an imperialist struggle ; secondly , for its refusal to offer an accurate depiction of the Soviet revolution , a failure explained as the cowardly refusal of the bourgeois writer to disclose the deepening crisis of capitalism after 1929 , a crisis highlighted by the success of the five year plan in the Soviet Union ; finally , for its refusal to face up to the growing threat of fascism . |
| 25 | Cannon raised one of her own stones to lie shot at the first where they stole a single . |
| 26 | You will need to pay attention to the first impression you make . |
| 27 | If you sell all or part of your business when you retire , you may not have to pay tax on the first £150,000 of capital gain with a further exemption allowed of one-half of gains between £150,000 and £600,000 . |
| 28 | In the United States , for example , people began to pay tax on the first slice of their income at 14 per cent , then 16 per cent for the next band , and so on . |
| 29 | This means that , for both sentences , it is only the arrival of the word cats which allows the listener to complete interpretation of the first clause . |
| 30 | For the majority of young mothers I talked to , it had been a mutual decision to have sex in the first place . |