Example sentences of "[to-vb] the first [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like many sailors before us our soggy footsteps led up the little hill to the Café Sport to sink the first beer in many days . |
| 2 | When we 'd finished that night Dad gave us tuppence to go the first half at the Queen 's Hall . |
| 3 | Parrott , the UK snooker champ , scored a tremendous 6-5 victory over the world champion and world No 1 to claim the first title of the season and pick up a £25,000 cheque . |
| 4 | You should specify either a module version which does exist in the format 99.99A or F to signify the first version of the module . |
| 5 | You should specify either a module version which does exist in the format 99.99A or F to signify the first version of the module . |
| 6 | You should specify either a module version which does exist in the format 99.99A or F to signify the first version of the module . |
| 7 | You should specify either a module version which does exist in the format 99.99A or F to signify the first version of the module . |
| 8 | You should specify either a module version which does exist in the format 99.99A or F to signify the first version of the module . |
| 9 | You should specify either a module version which does exist in the format 99.99A or F to signify the first version of the module . |
| 10 | You should specify either a module version which does exist in the format 99.99A or F to signify the first version of the module . |
| 11 | You should specify either a module version which does exist in the format 99.99A or F to signify the first version of the module . |
| 12 | You should specify either a module version which does exist in the format 99.99A or F to signify the first version of the module . |
| 13 | You should specify either a module version which does exist in the format 99.99A or F to signify the first version of the module . |
| 14 | Not to mention a rapid passing on of mortgage cuts to bedraggled flocks of existing homeowners ; who are less than thrilled to see the first helping of crumbs go in instant cheap deals to first-time buyers . |
| 15 | He had stayed long enough to see the first stage of the counter-inflation policy accepted and the clash and confrontation of two years earlier replaced by a new partnership . |
| 16 | The feature close would have the value + for , , , , and we could also use this for and if we adopt the convention that most of the features will be used to classify the first part of the diphthongs . |
| 17 | Having won two of this series in the fastest times already , he would have had to finish four seconds behind the steeplechaser Mark Rowland to lose the first prize of £5,000 . |
| 18 | We can say with certainty that we would be able to mount the first kind of display ; but at the moment we can not be so certain about the travelling display which , although the more attractive proposition , has much more significant resource implications . |
| 19 | They met as a commission , under the chairmanship of the Swede Gustaf Aulén , to debate the first theme of the agenda , the Universal Church in God 's Design . |
| 20 | No one , of course , would want to compare the first week of school term with the outbreak of a world war , but we are at the beginning of a New Year and a gateway to the future . |
| 21 | It means you have to treat the first invoice as an error , and possible invoke the DOCTOR ( which has been with most Sage products for ages ) to correct things , and then go and do it right . |
| 22 | President Elias Hrawi , Prime Minister Umar Karami and the president of the National Assembly , Hussain al-Hussaini , visited Damascus on Oct. 17 to attend the first session of the Lebanese-Syrian Supreme Council . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , Wesker was struck by another ( albeit minor ) disaster : Teomi was not able to attend the first day of rehearsals because Wesker had forgotten , when writing his schedule , that it was also Yom Kippur . |
| 24 | A prospectus was drawn up and students with suitable qualifications were invited to attend the first course in 1977 . |
| 25 | On Sept. 18 Isidore Mvouba was dismissed as Minister of Trade and Commerce after he failed to attend the first meeting of the Cabinet , attending instead a meeting of his own party , the ( formerly ruling ) Congolese Labour Party ( PCT ) . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | In feed-back inhibition , the final product P acts to inhibit the first enzyme in the series : that is , the enzyme that catalyses the step S→A . |
| 28 | In this case , ‘ some power of R ’ must be taken to include the first power of R , i.e. R itself . |
| 29 | ICTU has agreed to include the first point in their Agenda at their Biennial Conference . |
| 30 | What is he going to say when he discovers that he is expected to transmit the first report from an advisory unit in the history of government to include an account of the Director 's domestic arrangements ? |