Example sentences of "for [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , of course , the payment of dividend itself re-instates the 40% tax rate and defeats the tax motive for incorporating in the first place . |
| 2 | However , many have argued that the dependency perspective failed to explain how the practices of the TNCs and those who act as their agents in the Third World actually operated to produce underdevelopment , particularly where something like the kinds of development that are taken for granted in the First World have occurred regionally or in particular industries in some Third World countries . |
| 3 | Finally , with ‘ Do n't walk on the wet edge , you 'll get a verruca ’ ringing in my ears , and ‘ Make sure your hair is BONE dry before you go out into the cold ’ ringing in my brain , we would lay siege to the fish-and-chip shop which was my main reason for going in the first place . |
| 4 | Perhaps the rationalisation the person devises for coping with the first loss is shattered by the second loss . |
| 5 | Blackwell Retail , which used to produce its own catalogue , broke with tradition this year and took Books for Giving for the first time . |
| 6 | It remained in Australia until 1986 , when it was sent to her niece , Mrs Rita Coxall of Bishop 's Castle , for showing at the first Bishop 's Castle Railway Exhibition held at the High School on 18 April 1986 . |
| 7 | The instruments that would be needed for communicating echo pictures are no more sophisticated than the instruments that both bats and dolphins already have for echolocating in the first place . |
| 8 | Political considerations may have made them less inclined to return to China , but it was generally not a major reason for leaving in the first place . |
| 9 | Georgina was my main reason for leaving in the first place . ’ |
| 10 | There was never any mention of further plans for parachuting after the first operational disaster , and the correspondents agree that he was away in the desert . |
| 11 | Having set up the functioning New Business teams and created the essential facilities for servicing in the first few months , much further development was still needed to create procedures to service business once on the books . |