Example sentences of "to use the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The test can be carried out any time of day — there is no need to use the first morning urine — and its results are not affected by medicines such as pain relievers , antibiotics or the contraceptive pill . |
| 2 | It is important to use the first few sentences to summarise the story you are presenting . |
| 3 | A sensible compromise is to use the first method for longer photo-stories and to add a sticky label to the photograph giving outline details and the source and to use the second method for short captions . |
| 4 | She was wanting to describe the nature of the malai government but did n't want to use the first words which came to mind , which were ‘ military dictatorship ’ . |
| 5 | You probably want to use the first few rows of the spreadsheet for a general title plus notes to yourself about the date of creation and date of most recent revision so enter the headings you want in row 9 of the spreadsheet using short labels but ones that you will find meaningful in the reports you will want to create later on . |
| 6 | We would be inclined to use the first , because it gives a better sense of the feel of the anthology ; but this is a fairly arbitrary decision , where rule-books do not help . |
| 7 | We 're going to continue with this objective in the coming months in this , the third series , but before we get totally immersed I want to use the first three programmes to stand back to take a more general look at what universities are about today . |