Example sentences of "[conj] be [vb pp] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.

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1 To nine patients out of ten she was the first hospital sister with whom they had been confronted , and the great majority , when they walked , were pushed , or were carried for the first time through the double doors of our main entrance , were very apprehensive and trying to hide the fact .
2 Now these represent two lectures on group processes that 're given to the first year social psychology students at Aston .
3 but it 's only available for contributions that were withdrawn before the first of June nineteen seventy three and you know if you did n't meet that particular date then the only other way of of covering gaps is which is far more expensive .
4 The first one is the existing arrangements on nursing home care , really reviewing the process , and members will recognize that the arrangements that were agreed in the first agreement with Health Authority related to gaining permission from the Health Authority before our placing nursing homes .
5 The dearth was of persons who could give the only kind of witness that counts with those looking for help , the kind that is couched in the first person singular ’ ( Trueblood 1961:51 ) .
6 It is this kind of situation that is indicated in the first objective in the examples above .
7 I think many feel that if one is going to make the sacrifice that is required in the first place then one accepts that there will be other things one will want one 's child to benefit from — even if it means tightening one 's belt for an extra month . ’
8 The Committee for Hereford Amateur Rafters is the organization that was formed following the first 100 mile race and , as such , is the backbone of UK rafting , acting as an administrative body providing information , advice and assistance to new teams as well as organizing the premier UK events .
9 The only conclusion I can draw is that the two-pack AC lacquer that was used on the first table was something that I will not use again on dark timber if I want to bring out the full colour of the wood .
10 Erm the selection er er of er suppliers for the infra-red search and track w that was performed in the first instance by Eurofighter and the procurement organisations are the four Eurofighter partner companies make the checks on the potential suppliers in accordance with a schedule which we , the four governments , have provided to them .
11 If you 're successful on this er current application , you wo n't , but erm supposing this application were to be turned down by the planning authority , er that you were successful upon the appeal on the first one you would actually proceed according to the plan that was submitted at the first one .
12 He is cautious about all the hype that has surrounded Alpha from the time of announcement and warns that too much is being promised by a chip that was designed in the first instance to provide a Unix migration path for VAX users .
13 Hybridisation of SstI digested DNA with the 450bp SstI-XhoI probe C ( figure 1 , right ) further resolved the strongest hypersensitive site ( HS5 ) into two subsites , HS5A and HS5B , which are 100bp apart and are situated in the first intron around position +3600bp ( relative to the cap site ) .
14 Units are valued on the last working day of each month and are allocated on the first day of the following month , after the receipt of your premium .
15 ‘ On the 20th July we reached the 26th degree of S. Lat. , and were visited for the first time by the Cape petrel .
16 In Trinidad , West Indies were without Richards and were led for the first time by Desmond Haynes .
17 Yesterday , after England suffered their fifth successive Test defeat , their worst run since 1986 when they lost 5-0 in the West Indies and were beaten in the first two Tests at home to India , Fletcher said : ‘ Test matches are more important than one-day internationals , although if you lost all your one-dayers then that would become important .
18 The derivations given here are due to the author and were published in the first edition , but Larson has also carried out similar work independently .
19 With a native version of Novell Inc NetWare due on Sparc next year ( UX No 423 ) , Banyan Systems Inc 's rival Vines network operating system is now being ported to the Sun RISC and is expected in the first half of 1994 .
20 He took the theological honours examination , after a preparation of only four terms , in June 1927 and was placed in the first class .
21 This was the first official Israeli representation in China and was viewed as the first step towards the establishment of diplomatic relations .
22 The match was Halling Institute v Snodland , and was decided by the first innings Snodland scoring 77 and Halling 49 , Halling were playing valiantly when stumps were drawn at 6.30 . "
23 It moved northward through France from the Mediterranean coast and was recorded for the first time in Britain at a site in Hampshire , in March 1961 .
24 As with most stress rules , there are exceptions , for example ‘ honest ’ , ‘ perfect ’ or , both of which end with two consonants but are stressed on the first syllable .
25 Summer savory is grown as a half-hardy annual , sowing outdoors in April-May , to thin to 20cm ( 8in ) apart , when the plants will grow into little bushes , but be killed by the first hard frost in autumn .
26 In the 1839 race , Captain Becher riding Conrad had rushed into the lead but was unseated into the first brook — and so was born Becher 's Brook , still one of the most spectacular and feared jumps in the world .
27 The 5th generation — Expert Systems — must be seen as being applied to the first four generations of Maintenance but at the same time trying to integrate them as well .
28 The course commences with a Premedical year of studies taking the same course as is offered to the first year Biological Sciences students .
29 As was explained in the first chapter , it would be very difficult to construct a complete unified theory of everything in the universe all at one go .
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