Example sentences of "to be [verb] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prototype and test-bed for the new approach was to been seen first in some of the New Towns , particularly Harlow , where the design of the neighbourhood units provided a classic model to follow . |
| 2 | The interpretation which perhaps makes most sense of people 's answers is that their decisions seem to be based first on a desire to pay off quickly , and second ( in modification of this ) on how high an instalment they can afford — rather than on interest rates or total cost . |
| 3 | Other doctor 's patients are having their operations postponed in order to allow the patients of G P fundholders to be treated first . |
| 4 | This will take R ( or 3R/2 if the start of the track has to be detected first ) for the centre track , and R/2 for the other track searched . |
| 5 | Marx believed that the history of human societies was to be explained first of all by the nature of man as an animal who had to obtain a living from his geographical environment , which meant not only staying alive , but also being able to look after one 's offspring until they could look after themselves . |
| 6 | Before you start on this project you must do some checking as maybe a visit to your nearest dealer , or order to a Mail Order firm , has to be undertaken first . |
| 7 | To be listed first among these may according to one estimate confer in the Republic an advantage averaging nearly a thousand first-preference votes . |
| 8 | There is an obvious demographic point that has to be made first . |
| 9 | Thus 5b refers to ordering or comparing with given measurements , while in 5c measurements have to be made first . |
| 10 | If a court were minded in particular circumstances to permit the questioning of the proceedings of the House in the way proposed , it would be proper for the leave of the House to be sought first by way of petition so that , if leave were granted , no question would arise of the House regarding its privileges as having been breached . |
| 11 | And the small things … that 's where it 's to be seen first . |
| 12 | You want them up at the top of the sheet , where they 're going to be seen first ( they look that good ) . |
| 13 | Erm I 'm asking for it to be done first so hopefully |
| 14 | The only proviso is that the politicians have to be asked first . |
| 15 | The question that has to be asked first , is : How is such a framework possible ? |
| 16 | Belinda wondered how on earth they were going to get it up the stairs and through the house , but she sensibly decided that it was their concern , not hers , and anyway the bedroom needed to be vacuumed first . |
| 17 | Mr Parry said it should be pointed out that when a person takes over a public house a protection has to be granted first . |
| 18 | ‘ On that subject , ’ Orcadai spoke finally , ‘ I would hope to be consulted first . ’ |
| 19 | But if fighting appears inevitable , you do n't have to wait to be hit first . |
| 20 | Rent was a charge that had to be met first , although midnight ‘ flits ’ to avoid paying rent were common among the very poor and not unknown for the artisan in temporarily reduced circumstances . |
| 21 | Indeed , one representative of a finance house pointed out that there was a benefit in allowing the short-term debts to be cleared first ; it gave the debtor a light at the end of the tunnel , an achievable goal to aim at . |
| 22 | The worker 's personal feelings may need to be acknowledged first , before it is possible to embark on the kind of work in which a couple of the generation of the worker 's parents or grandparents are encouraged to express their sexuality and personal needs . |
| 23 | This very rapid absorption occurs partly because alcohol dies not have to be digested first and partly because a significant amount is absorbed from the stomach . |
| 24 | I suggest that , important as such analysis is , there are more fundamental issues which have to be tackled first . |
| 25 | Our film stock and equipment , which comprised some nine-tenths of our travelling weight , had to be husbanded first past the Pac-Man thicket of Customs and Immigration , thence through unpredictable months in the jungles , and finally out of the country again intact and undetained . |
| 26 | Purchases of shares issued as a result of bonus shares and scrip dividends in respect of the original shares are , in general , also treated as distributions and are deemed to be purchased first ( ICTA 1988 , s211 ) . |
| 27 | Electric wiring should , if possible , be kept clear of the insulation ; and if you are considering having the joists treated for woodworm , all insulation will have to be removed first . |
| 28 | If a full excavation of the Globe were to take place , the building would need to be demolished first . |
| 29 | They had demanded to be paid first . |
| 30 | By the Great Semantic Shift which has operated in English politics over the past 30 years or so , opinions on this and many other matters which were once held by the majority and described as ‘ moderate ’ , ‘ of the centre ’ or merely ‘ patriotic ’ have gradually come to be described first as ‘ right-wing ’ , then as ‘ extreme right-wing ’ , then as ‘ lunatic fringe ’ and finally as ‘ fascist ’ . |