Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | While ‘ The Month of August ’ and a number of other poems which pursue sexual and economic questions do appear in the first volume , Leapor 's most angry works were left out . |
| 32 | The first substantial remains of sculpture from a Doric building are from a temple of Artemis on Kerkyra ( Corcyra , Corfu ) , which must date from the first decade or two of the sixth century . |
| 33 | Energy saving does not date from the first oil crisis . |
| 34 | I think that teachers need to know people that they can turn to for further advice , but that they could familiarize themselves much more with what , as it were , they can do in the first instance by screening children , by using there are number of published materials , learning inventories , that can be used to discover whether a child has some difficulties that might point in this direction of dyslexia . |
| 35 | Time was when the South West would be filled with Gloucester boys … only two Paul Holford and Dave Sims made it on Saturday and there was nothing they could do in the first half to stop the north from taking control … a try from Jim Mallinder gave them a 13-6 lead at half-time … |
| 36 | If they voice this concern to the general practitioner or health visitor this may result in the first step being taken in the identification of a visual problem , but unfortunately there can be instances in which the defective vision is not detected until the child has a pre-school medical . |
| 37 | Here the occupants of the house would ascend to the first floor by way of the outside steps , as originally there would have been no inner staircase . |
| 38 | I shall refer to the first case as Mr. A. He wrote to me in March saying : |
| 39 | It also enhanced the national rivalries that would eventually touch off the First World War . |
| 40 | Steve Jones will run for the first time in the Morpeth-Newcastle , Britain 's oldest road race , on New Year 's Day .. |
| 41 | Steve Jones will run for the first time in the Morpeth-Newcastle , Britain 's oldest road race , on New Year 's Day .. |
| 42 | The module , which will run for the first time from February 1994 , offers students an opportunity to spend time working with a voluntary/ community organisation . |
| 43 | A small apple tree , a garden pea or even a strawberry plant pass through various stages during spring and summer and children can look for the first appearance of leaves and flowers and fruit . |
| 44 | In the meantime , one might look for the first appearance of a new journal in March Educational Action Research . |
| 45 | And they could see for the first time the lights of settlements off in the dark distance of the Vale . |
| 46 | Well it 's not a yes yes for the garden because I would n't have room for it but it 's certainly a yes yes in my shelter delt because the birds love the berries and it really encourages them to use that shelter delt but it is n't as , as easy to grow , it 's , one tends to think of the nature plant as a tough plant but I 've been trying to establish about thirty of these in the shelter delt and I 've found they object to any form of total weedkiller round the root , so all the , the weedkillers that you would use for the first couple of years maybe to , to keep the , the weeds from growing round the stems , they tend to get chlorotic and die . |
| 47 | It is working with IBM and Motorola Inc ( helping IBM with the new PowerPC RISC implementation ) on both hardware and AIX software , so that users of the new version of the Power RISC will all support compatible multi-processing implementations — something should emerge during the first half of next year . |
| 48 | I will begin with the first line of argument , which asserts that the investigation of a suspect ends when he is charged . |
| 49 | Let us begin with the first step in the above argument . |
| 50 | So I will begin with the first time I ever saw John Russell . |
| 51 | Besides the Foundation stories , Asimov 's best known book was probably his second , I , Robot ( 1950 ) , in which he promulgated three unalterable ‘ Laws of Robotics ’ — first , that a robot may not harm a human being , or , through inaction , allow a human being to come to harm ; secondly , that a robot must obey the orders of a human being , except when this would conflict with the first law ; and thirdly , that a robot must protect itself , except when this would conflict with the first and second laws . |
| 52 | The question then is whether a State party to the first treaty can prevent another treaty party from entering into a later treaty from which it is excluded , but which would conflict with the first treaty . |
| 53 | Why did the crisis occur in the first place ? |
| 54 | Other relationships , of a kind , do follow within the first year . |
| 55 | The 25-person , privately-owned White Cross is busy setting up overseas operations : a Dallas , Texas-based office is due to open by the end of the year and a Far East office will follow in the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 56 | Under the new schedule the period Feb. 29-March 28 was set aside for the registration of voters and a constitutional referendum would be held on March 18 ; municipal elections would follow in the first half of April and legislative elections would be held in two rounds on May 17 and May 31 . |
| 57 | They 're not really so complicated as perhaps they might look in the first place . |
| 58 | As you can see from the first diagram , the body of even the toughest fighter is covered with ‘ soft spots ’ ( or vulnerable areas ) which can easily be seen and reached . |
| 59 | But they do make sociolinguistic assumptions : in context it is clear that they also assume the early development of a socially elite variety , and we can see from the first sentence of the quotation that ‘ carefulness ’ is probably also involved . |
| 60 | Now we can begin on the first phrase — the most important of the whole theme , for the success of everything else depends upon it . |