Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb base] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The European champions , who host the first leg in 11 days ' time , have lost Ruud Gullit and Marco Van Basten and are struggling for form .
2 Those who forget the first point fall into the error of being too hard .
3 There is the racist argument that blackness is a factor in why certain people commit crimes , and there is the anti-racist argument that blackness is a factor in why certain people have crimes committed against them , generally by people who believe the first argument .
4 There is no point in arguing who cast the first stone or threw the first bomb , destroying a church hall or a GAA club .
5 Whether it is the purchaser 's accountants or the vendor 's accountants who prepare the first draft , the other party 's accountants should have access to their working papers if the rules are properly negotiated .
6 However those who survive the first year perform at least as well as traditional students and in some cases slightly better .
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