Example sentences of "the first [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the first to go ashore at St Pierre after the disaster was the Vicar-General of Martinique , Monsieur Parel , who was at Fort-de-France on the morning of the eighth , having left St Pierre only the afternoon before . |
| 2 | Flannery was the first to go completely . |
| 3 | Ivy was the first to go across . |
| 4 | Forget the grinning drummer or the antics of the bass player ( the first to go down to stroppy retaliation ) , this band are a scorched earth antidote to faint hearts and floppy fringes . |
| 5 | It was never fully explained why he had to leave , but we can imagine that the ardour with which he had previously performed his duties ( always the first to take on extra work ) had gone too far . |
| 6 | Desperate for cash following the Swedish debacle , he was one of the first to take on commercial sponsorship by negotiating a less than lucrative deal with Lovetts Panty Hose Ltd , and solely responsible for the bankrupting record fiasco when , at crippling expense , the team took on the guise of the Whaddon Promotion All Stars , and released a record , Go Go Athletic-O . |
| 7 | Jackie 's brother Jimmy , was the first to take up racing but he quit after an accident . |
| 8 | In Britain the ILP and the Communist Party were naturally the first to take up the call for united action . |
| 9 | Among the first to take up Rupert 's invitation ; a party of 90 children from Lethbridge Junior School . |
| 10 | This usually entailed Branson being the first to let off fire-extinguishers , initiate a food fight , or dress up in fishnet stockings and make-up for the inevitable fancy-dress party . |
| 11 | As the two mid-price discs are available separately , Elgarians may care to sample the first which includes the most ambitious of the Harmony Music ( in four parts , the first lasting nearly 12 minutes ) , the five Intermezzos and two descriptive slow pieces , then perhaps moving on the second . |
| 12 | The three cases of misclassification of delirium were due to the time delay between the team and research assessments ; by the time of the second assessment , the delirium apparent at the first had substantially resolved to reveal an underlying depression or dementia , or both . |
| 13 | The first arose out of the practice announced in Mr. Brittan 's statement of 30 November 1983 of seeking the views of the judiciary on the tariff for a prisoner when he had been detained in custody for about three years . |
| 14 | He had obviously been waiting to see how the first got on . |
| 15 | The claim is that one of the first to mark out John Smith 's future political career was the Labour leader , Hugh Gaitskell , who was in his time characterised and vilified as being right-wing . |
| 16 | The number of members experienced in the park purposes has been considerably reduced ( the first step back ) while the number experienced in farming and landowning has been markedly increased ( the second ) . |
| 17 | For one 's frailties to be known by someone else , someone who does not add their voice to the clamour of internal judgement , is the first step back towards being able to view one 's predicament simultaneously with accuracy and equanimity . |
| 18 | The creation of the system was interpreted by Bilson [ 1979 ] as : " … the first step back from the rugged individualism and national self-interest that lay behind the formal acceptance of flexible exchange rates at the Jamaica meetings of the International Monetary Fund in January 1976 . " |
| 19 | The former British champion from Sunderland took the first step back on the road to championship level by stopping Clarkson with 65 seconds gone of the fifth round . |
| 20 | With the first support up , cut the horizontal back support so it will fit snugly between the side pieces . |
| 21 | Bernhard Langer got the first blow in by hitting a great second shot over the Swilcan Burn at the first hole to only a few inches , about a foot I guess , and birdied to go one nearer the lead . |
| 22 | Now , like I was saying , duck , ’ she continued to me , ‘ they did n't spot as she was carrying the two until the first come on . |
| 23 | Marx was not the first to denounce the wretched condition of the working class in capitalist countries , nor was he the first to point out the apparent anomaly that those who produced the wealth , the workers , were the poorest while those who were apparently useless drones , the capitalists and their associates , were the richest . |
| 24 | Patrick Forbes is the first to point out that this is not so and that the title is just a brand name , but the confusion still persists . |
| 25 | It reached its present form over a long period of time during which there have been numerous law changes — not all of which have achieved their desired result , as Ian Kirkpatrick , Rutherford 's South African counterpart , was the first to point out . |
| 26 | As David Shulman , equity strategist at Salomon Brothers , was the first to point out , the danger for investors these days lies less with the few hot shares whose rise he misses than with the many dubious ones already in his portfolio . |
| 27 | The problem with pen computing , as Nick Eades , IBM 's brand manager for portables , is the first to point out , is that the handwriting recognition software needs to be a whole lot better before it can really appeal to the masses . |
| 28 | Willie Dick , Axminster Weaving Manager is the first to point out that the invitation is due to his wife 's extensive work with the Red Cross . |
| 29 | Potten et al are the first to point out that their findings are based entirely on the study of patients with colorectal cancer and , although the specimens used were taken at least 5 cm from the primary carcinoma and did not show any unusual histological features , there may be differences with respect to the colonic mucosa of patients without carcinoma . |
| 30 | But in reality , modern chemistry is a much more precise science , as Tony McCaffery , Dean of the School of Molecular Sciences , would be the first to point out . |