Example sentences of "['s] [noun] to the first " in BNC.

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1 Noting further that unc and applying Gauss 's theorem to the first term in the bracket we get
2 Mr Doran had moved his wife 's cake to the first position , and Mr Clancy had moved it back to the middle , saying the first cake tasted had the best chance , and his wife 's cake would be first as it had got there first .
3 The National Football League was nervous about London 's reaction to the first game at Wembley a few years ago , and whether it would be profitable .
4 Southend United 's promotion to the First Division with me as mascot — getting fab reviews and a signed football
5 All have indicated willingness to leave following Forest 's relegation to the First Division at the subsequent retirement of manager Brian Clough .
6 The issues under this sub-paragraph turn on the Court of Justice 's answer to the first question in the Kalfelis case [ 1989 ] E.C.R. 5565 , 5569 , which was :
7 In an Author 's Note to the first book , Master and Commander , Patrick O'Brian assures us that ‘ … very often the improbable reality outruns fiction ’ and offers enough information about his sources ( in log-books , diaries and other contemporary records ) to confirm the authenticity of the events through which he displays his characters .
8 So that you can try them yourself , Elizabeth Arden is giving away a week 's supply to the first 750 readers whose names are picked on 28 February .
9 The following quotation comes from Engels ' Preface to the first ( 1884 ) edition of The Origin of the Family , which was a kind of rewrite , in precis , of Morgan 's Ancient Society ( 1877 ) :
10 A £3,000 firework display , brass band and male choir will salute the Eagles ' return to the First Division .
11 She pushed the papers back into the large Crockford and looked round the room , realising there ought to be a servants ' stair to the first floor continuing the one running from the ground floor to the basement .
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