Example sentences of "[vb mod] take [noun sg] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | This would tie in with the kind of creature that could take advantage of the first abundance of flowering plants and special insects emerging in the late Cretaceous . |
| 2 | A statement issued after talks with his conservative rival Ruslan Khasbulatov said the meeting of the Congress of People 's Deputies to ratify an expected power-sharing agreement could take place in the first ten days of March . |
| 3 | This may take place at the first meeting with the client , though for larger assignments a site visit and access to confidential material may be necessary before such an assessment can be properly made . |
| 4 | This may take place at the first meeting with the client , although for larger assignments access to confidential material may be necessary before such an assessment can be made . |
| 5 | If there was a resolution on the agenda today to increase the subscription , and I hasten to add there is n't , but if there was then that increase by convention would take effect on the first of January nineteen ninety four but the full value of the increase would not reach our income and expenditure account until the year nineteen ninety five to ninety six and this means that we are not well placed to respond to short-term financial problems . |
| 6 | The next day was Thursday , and that , as the whole of Miss Honey 's class knew , was the day on which the Headmistress would take charge of the first lesson after lunch . |
| 7 | COMPETITORS from all over the country will take part in the first North Wales regional tennis centre wheelchair tennis tournament at Wrexham this week . |
| 8 | To mark the occasion , a commemorative tree-planting ceremony will take place on the first day of the championships . |
| 9 | That is probably the worst one day figure which happened , as I say , combination of war and the snow , when the shops were pretty well closed off , and yes we certainly saw figures that , on a day for day basis to last year , they were seventy five per cent down , but cumulative I mean the position 's much better than that erm nowhere near that sort of figure , and erm we are very confident that the summer market for overseas holidays will recover steadily and we 'd be very surprised if , by the end of September , we 're more than five or six per cent down on summer holiday bookings compared to last year , and we 're confident enough to have brought back our campaigns and our advertising starts this week , and we 've even been confident enough to announce to our staff that their annual salary review will take place on the first of April as scheduled . |
| 10 | Work will take place over the first two weekends in June ( 1st-2nd , 8th-9th ) , starting 9.30 am on site . |