Example sentences of "[pers pn] [am/are] [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , erm erm a good illustration of this is Locke 's erm erm argument on the right of inheritance and erm in this case I am quoting from the first treatise of government the right a son has to be maintained , has to be maintained and provided with the necessary the necessities and conveniences of life out of his father 's stock gives him a right to succeed to his father 's property for his own good but this can give him no right to succeed also to the rule which his father had over other men . |
| 2 | I am talking about the first attempt to amend regulation 72 to exclude supplementary benefit and national assistance from the scope of that regulation . |
| 3 | But immediately Jessie said to Agnes , ‘ I 'm going at the first opportunity , Bible or no Bible . ’ |
| 4 | Establishing rapport is the process of getting on the right wavelength with someone — usually , but not inevitably , with someone you are meeting for the first time . |
| 5 | Something which is important to say is that the first time you have a contact with somebody and you do a piece , you 're , you 're meeting for the first time , it 's slightly awkward and you 're getting to know each other slightly , the second time you do it easier , it 's easier , and if you establish relationships with the local press , local radio and so forth , it gets easier and easier all the time , because by the time you get to know people , it 's not sort of ‘ Can I speak to somebody who does a programme about the morning whatever it is ? |
| 6 | That you 're greeted in the first place with erm either silence or some vague and not singularly hopeful mutter , but more importantly with a curious facial expression mingled between erm dread and contempt , sort of thing you 'd expect as if you 'd said you were a sorcerer . |
| 7 | You 're talking to me , you 're talking to the first one round . |
| 8 | Each year the amount has gone up by inflation , and yet we see something approaching thirty thousand underspent on previous years , and here we are looking in the first year of this council to a , a , at least a five percent overspend and er , I wonder if we 've erm , excluded the time when there were n't many meetings at the beginning if we would n't have seen a considerably larger overspend . |
| 9 | and Q acted upon by unc and unc are essentially the same , we are meeting for the first time a concept of prime importance in algebra , namely that of isomorphism . |
| 10 | As soon as we ask what faith is and what sort of mistreatment of faith causes doubt , we are led to the first major misconception about doubt — the idea that doubt is the opposite of faith and the same thing as unbelief . |
| 11 | Here we are told for the first time such details as that the Moreens are American , that they require a resident tutor for their sickly child , and that Pemberton is looking for the tutor 's job ; or rather , we are not told , but are led to infer these facts , for James avoids a direct statement of them . |
| 12 | Yes I mean basically we need to first of all decide , I think this is what we 're deciding in the first instance , which option for the provision of information you find the most helpful . |
| 13 | So we 're having in the first instance |
| 14 | The Ryehill Course near Bloxham in Oxfordshire is where we 're going for the first in a new series of the Friday Feature . |
| 15 | They 're investing in the first half in that second half . |
| 16 | And they 're looking for the first little thing ! |
| 17 | And although it will grea , greatly help some women , unfortunately some women are unable to tolerate it , the side effects it gi , it gives them are worse than the actually symptoms they 're having in the first place . |
| 18 | they 're advertising for the first time or the last ad |
| 19 | there 's hundreds of French , Germans they 're waiting until the first of July and they 'll be in this country in a flash . |