Example sentences of "[vb infin] [noun sg] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | A presidential candidate could win election on the first round only by gaining an absolute majority of the votes cast by at least one-quarter of registered voters ; otherwise the election would be decided by a second-round run-off between the two candidates with most votes . |
| 2 | Replace all metal drainpipes with plastic ones ( which are far too flimsy for anyone to scale ) , remove any trees near the house that would assist ascent to the first floor and absolutely never leave ladders outside the house , front or back , always lock them away . |
| 3 | She might get over this present illness but would only fall victim to the first virus that came along . |
| 4 | Although the Act gives no protection to a dealer , it will give protection to the first private purchaser providing he was bona fide , etc . |
| 5 | The need would be to show , against reasonable expectation , that the second did not divert attention from the first . |
| 6 | They promote health and help prevent illness in the first place . |
| 7 | They promote health and help prevent illness in the first place . |
| 8 | Palazzo Spinola will show material from the first half of the seventeenth century , while the latter half will appear in the Palazzo Reale . |
| 9 | Most of the larger calendar and diary publishers should make contact in the first two to three months of the year . |
| 10 | This is likely to mean ITN will face competition for the first time . |
| 11 | COMPETITORS from all over the country will take part in the first North Wales regional tennis centre wheelchair tennis tournament at Wrexham this week . |
| 12 | This would tie in with the kind of creature that could take advantage of the first abundance of flowering plants and special insects emerging in the late Cretaceous . |
| 13 | If there was a resolution on the agenda today to increase the subscription , and I hasten to add there is n't , but if there was then that increase by convention would take effect on the first of January nineteen ninety four but the full value of the increase would not reach our income and expenditure account until the year nineteen ninety five to ninety six and this means that we are not well placed to respond to short-term financial problems . |
| 14 | The next day was Thursday , and that , as the whole of Miss Honey 's class knew , was the day on which the Headmistress would take charge of the first lesson after lunch . |
| 15 | To mark the occasion , a commemorative tree-planting ceremony will take place on the first day of the championships . |
| 16 | That is probably the worst one day figure which happened , as I say , combination of war and the snow , when the shops were pretty well closed off , and yes we certainly saw figures that , on a day for day basis to last year , they were seventy five per cent down , but cumulative I mean the position 's much better than that erm nowhere near that sort of figure , and erm we are very confident that the summer market for overseas holidays will recover steadily and we 'd be very surprised if , by the end of September , we 're more than five or six per cent down on summer holiday bookings compared to last year , and we 're confident enough to have brought back our campaigns and our advertising starts this week , and we 've even been confident enough to announce to our staff that their annual salary review will take place on the first of April as scheduled . |
| 17 | Work will take place over the first two weekends in June ( 1st-2nd , 8th-9th ) , starting 9.30 am on site . |
| 18 | The regression session will often take place during the first or second consultation , and no homework as such will follow this . |
| 19 | This may take place at the first meeting with the client , though for larger assignments a site visit and access to confidential material may be necessary before such an assessment can be properly made . |
| 20 | This may take place at the first meeting with the client , although for larger assignments access to confidential material may be necessary before such an assessment can be made . |
| 21 | If the maritime portion does not take place in the first leg of the journey , the transport document can not attest to a loading on board the vessel when , in fact , the goods are only on board a truck or railroad car . |
| 22 | A statement issued after talks with his conservative rival Ruslan Khasbulatov said the meeting of the Congress of People 's Deputies to ratify an expected power-sharing agreement could take place in the first ten days of March . |
| 23 | For example , when words which should have stress on the first syllable were said with stress on the second syllable , they were misinterpreted . |
| 24 | There were eighteen patients who had recurrence , twenty percent of patients who did have recurrence in the first year , and we 've subdivided those , labelling seven patients protocol violators . |
| 25 | If they manage to lure a victim within reach before dropping the illusion , the Daemonettes will automatically gain surprise on the first round of hand-to-hand combat . |
| 26 | Tonight she would make love for the first time — and it would be with the man she loved . |
| 27 | The cows are always milked by members of the family and they can usually spot mastitis in the first 24 hours . |
| 28 | But it 's even more of a comfort for baby if he does n't get wind in the first place . |
| 29 | Bakalov said Huron version 1.18 , expected in Q2 1993 , will support Motif for the first time as well as the RS/6000 , improved buffers support for larger numbers of terminals , Oracle server ( Unix ) and DB server(MVS) . |