Example sentences of "taking the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shooter , described in court as a salesman , was caught after a plain-clothes police officer posed as a courier taking the first of the blackmail money to a pick-up point at Edinburgh Airport . |
| 2 | Taking the first fortnight as a whole , four-fifths of voters had heard nothing about their local Conservative , Labour , and Alliance candidates but that figure dropped to little more than half in the second fortnight . |
| 3 | Even so , we are taking the first steps in a long journey towards an understanding of the body clock and the way it adjusts to our environment . |
| 4 | What stops us taking the first step and using it ? |
| 5 | The official stayed and , in later years , coined the best metaphor for the Wilson style : Harold as the great player of Space Invaders taking the first blip to cross the screen whether it was important or not . |
| 6 | Taking the first reported date for each bird records have been distributed as follows : July ( two ) , September ( two ) , October ( three ) , November ( one ) , December ( eight ) , January ( one ) , February ( two ) , March ( three ) , April ( one ) , and May ( three ) . |
| 7 | THE British Government is taking the first tentative steps to standardise the computers and computer equipment that are bought by civil servants . |
| 8 | Mute 's stance follows the news that music industry magazine Music Week is taking the first step to redefining the term ‘ independent ’ by running ‘ a genre chart open to all-comers ’ , next to ‘ an old-style distribution chart ’ , from September 19 . |
| 9 | The results found by taking the first ten allowable strings in order of combined ranks and probabilities are shown in tables 3.7 and 3.8 below . |
| 10 | With these two packages , Microsoft essentially becomes a value-added reseller of its own applications , and is also taking the first step into the world of the ‘ applet ’ , where software authors use simpler applications as building blocks for larger projects . |
| 11 | And so it proved , with Class One taking the first four overall places until their monopoly was broken by ‘ Fiona of Burnham ’ ( David Geaves , RBYC ) and her club-mate ‘ Act of Defiance ’ ( G Harrison and J Rankin ) with ‘ Abzoelutely ’ ( Charlie Mills CYC ) all from Class Two . |
| 12 | Though I acknowledge the need for caution in the development of counselling services and for more scientific evidence for the effectiveness of different types of counselling , this should not conflict with taking the first steps . |
| 13 | Taking the first function , while it is true that the education ( and hence , also , [ … ] socialization — since the two can not be readily separated ) of children and young adults has increasingly been taken over by agencies outside the home such as schools , play-groups and youth organizations , the basic primary socialization of the child is still very much a responsibility of a nuclear family . |
| 14 | In its internal history for the Joint Chiefs of Staff , their secretariat give them the credit ( or blame ) for taking the first step in shifting the battle for Asia from China to Southeast Asia . |
| 15 | One is , if we make a certain common assumption , and taking the first example , that if the switch had not been flipped , then the windscreen wipers would not have started to work . |
| 16 | Taking a random page from the writings of Karl Popper , one can see the structure of the discourse in skeleton form by taking the first phrase or sentence of each paragraph . |
| 17 | er position two is always for tur for taking the first turning off the |
| 18 | " Inability to predict what will happen after taking the first drink " is how we define alcoholism . |
| 19 | Taking the first question first , an answer can at least be given in abstract terms . |
| 20 | Although Braque had been responsible for taking the first steps towards a more abstract type of painting , his own use of the new procedure was much more cautious than Picasso 's . |
| 21 | Taking the first two restrictions , section 14 and Schedule 2 of the Legal Aid Act 1988 prescribe the courts and the proceedings for which representation is available . |
| 22 | They may be intended to help people to be more aware of their own interests and abilities with a view to taking the first steps towards any of these possibilities . |
| 23 | At turn-off the phase current decays exponentially from its initial value of +2 A towards a final value of -2 A. If the phase electrical time constant is T and turn-off begins at time t = 0 , the instantaneous current is : which , taking the first two terms of the exponential series expansion , can be approximated by : Initial energy stored in the inductance = , so 50% of the stored inductive energy is returned to the supply at turnoff . |
| 24 | She could n't quite believe she was taking the first few tentative steps back towards her marriage . |
| 25 | And tonight , three hours south in San Jos de Penuelas , the seasonal labourers who are talking by candlelight around a table seem to be taking the first steps towards the same kind of self-determination . |
| 26 | The burden increased when it became clear that it was schools who would be held principally responsible in implementing the national curriculum , in taking the first steps in teacher appraisal and in managing their finances . |
| 27 | It was early morning and Sara was taking the first typing session of the day . |
| 28 | His country may be taking the first steps to a market economy , but on the streets there are remarkably few cars . |
| 29 | It 's mainly a question of confidence and taking the first few steps . |
| 30 | This involves careful planning in building up contacts and nurturing them and not taking the first ‘ no ’ for an answer . |