Example sentences of "not [vb infin] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | This section does not cover the first £25 each claim each person except loss of deposit claims . |
| 2 | She would definitely not make the first move . |
| 3 | It is unlikely , though , that we can handle all these if we can not make the first distinction systematically ( and the alert reader can no doubt find mistakes of this sort within this book ) . |
| 4 | He started his career at Everton , but did not make the first team and has since played at Bolton , Chester , Lincoln , West Brom and Preston . |
| 5 | At times , house air waybills use neutral formats that do not identify the first airline . |
| 6 | The attacks did not constitute the first manifestations of organised racist aggression but the events were used as supporting evidence for the claims of the anti-immigration lobby . |
| 7 | Some argue that the law in England vis-à-vis terminal patients does not meet the first of these criteria , and thus can not satisfy , ex hypothesi , the other two . |
| 8 | Why not take the first step to a happy ending — and complete the coupon right now ? |
| 9 | You do not enter the first forest for fun , for adventure . |
| 10 | ( Thus a child who did not reach the first birthday is counted as zero year old ; from 12 completed months to 23 completed months as one year old , etc . ) |
| 11 | How much will he spend to bail out the first-wave trusts so that they do not end the first financial year in deficit ? |
| 12 | The treaty was never implemented , however , perhaps because the French could not raise the first instalment of the ransom in the six months specified , and in May 1359 the ‘ Second Treaty of London ’ was concluded . |
| 13 | New Scientist should not allow the first weapons with terminal guidance to be installed before noting that the accuracy is needed to destroy missiles in hardened concrete silos : in other words for a first strike . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , Poulantzas ' example does not satisfy the first of these requirements . |
| 15 | Lakatos offers Marxism and Freudian psychology as programmes that satisfy the first criterion but do not satisfy the second , and modern sociology as a programme that perhaps satisfies the second but does not satisfy the first . |
| 16 | Lord Hope did not accept the first submission on behalf of the pursuers , which was to the effect that when the completed application form was sent to the building society the pursuers had accepted an offer made by the society to consider the application , as , unlike in Hunter v General Accident Fire and Life Assurance Co , 19O9SC ( HL ) 3O , the building society in the present case had not given any undertaking to consider the application and were under no obligation to do so . |
| 17 | However , the areas he must address do not concern the first team alone . |
| 18 | do n't want the first wee of the mor |
| 19 | We do n't want the first one in the morning . |
| 20 | Everyone in the whole marine department just threw up their hands in horror and told me I was crazy , I did n't know the first thing about ships , the whole marine fleet would fall apart . |
| 21 | ‘ You do n't know the first thing about the business , woman . ’ |
| 22 | He had been told that he did n't know the first thing about it , that the young were all the same , destructive and careless , that Mrs Irving set a value on her privacy . |
| 23 | I 've been so hoping you would soon be ready to join Brownies , but how can I pass over to a Brownie Guider a girl who wo n't lend a hand without being given something first and who does n't know the first thing about being obedient ? ’ |
| 24 | And anyway , even if we ask them , I mean , even if they think we can do something about it , though Christ knows what , I do n't want a lot of knowalls who have n't got any kids and do n't know the first thing about them telling us what to do with ours — ’ |
| 25 | ‘ But I do n't know the first thing about being a dog , ’ young Anabelle pointed out . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't know the first thing about anything , really . ’ |
| 27 | I do n't know the first thing about brochs . |
| 28 | Some of the people who talk about commitment do n't know the first thing about it . |
| 29 | You do n't know the first thing , do you ? " |
| 30 | You simply do n't know the first thing about marriage , do you ? |