Example sentences of "first [noun] [pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first category we work to prevent effects which might otherwise take place , not necessarily working directly with the child . |
| 2 | Learning to pronounce the address ‘ Quatorze rue du Perre , Place Pigalle ’ to a taxi driver was the first hurdle they had to overcome : |
| 3 | This was the first opportunity we had to try out the new personalisation facility with the agents ’ mailing . |
| 4 | The first opportunity I got to look at this stuff is on Sunday on the library |
| 5 | After a slow first hour I started to get a few better fish , roach and skimmers . |
| 6 | Of course you could try a tantalising headline but do remember that in the first instance you have to attract the attention and interest of the journalist or editor , who is not going to be tempted quite as easily as the reader might be . |
| 7 | The first part you need to complete , part A and this has got your personal details bank details it asks about your family details for family benefits and it asks if you are in receipt of any other oth other pensions . |
| 8 | In 1908 the Standard was not printing photographs and , although it took up the art form in the 1920 's and it is a curiosity to learn that the first photograph it published to do with the Club was in fact of the Opening Match , but 50 years after the event . |
| 9 | In his first term he had to write for him an essay on the art of poetry . |
| 10 | Reagan 's notoriously detached style of management made high-quality staff essential , and in his first term he appears to have been particularly well served by those responsible for ushering his economic policy proposals through congress . |
| 11 | There was little he could do to combat the hostility of the media , but after the frustrations of his first term he decided to face up to the bureaucracy and the legislature . |
| 12 | In the first chapter I attempt to set out some of the different forms of theism and atheism . |
| 13 | The first question we need to ask is whether there is a steady-state solution . |
| 14 | Mr. Beloff submits that the first question we have to answer is : is there any known rule of natural justice that a person who is not the subject of an administrative decision should nevertheless have the right to make representations before the decision is made ? |
| 15 | The application by Mr. Wadsworth on behalf of the appellants to adduce fresh evidence before this court is for the purpose of explaining the appellants ' apparently defiant behaviour towards the judge , and the first question we have to address our minds to is whether that evidence should be admitted . |
| 16 | The first question I want to ask of contemporary antiracism is whether it does not collude in accepting that the problems of ‘ race ’ and racism are somehow peripheral to the substance of political life . |
| 17 | Well the first question I want to ask you is how do you feel you got on in those presentations . |
| 18 | The first question you need to ask yourself is do you need a toastmaster ? |
| 19 | And when he heard the first crash he determined to intervene , in some way that would not dispute the authority of the headmaster 's wife . |
| 20 | The first work he went to see was The Sleeping Beauty , ‘ which you would hate , with sumptuous settings and dresses by Messel which you would adore . ’ |
| 21 | They plan a tour of Britain to familiarise themselves with the British style and the first place they wish to stop is Dundee for the game with United . |
| 22 | The first theologian I want to introduce you to now is a second-century Christian called Irenaeus . |
| 23 | In this First Article I want to make two points . |
| 24 | We decided one of our first things we had to do was decide on a sequence of construction for these tanks . |
| 25 | One of the first things we need to do if we wish to consider sexuality without personal hang-ups getting in the way is to get over our revulsion against sexual terms . |
| 26 | It 's one of the first things you have to face up to . |
| 27 | ‘ One of the first things I had to learn by heart when I went to Maythorpe House was a poem by an Englishman , Laurence Binyon . |
| 28 | When a retailer sets up a new business , one of the first things he has to do is draw up a plan of the shop floor . |
| 29 | On her first night she went to eat at Rosalie 's , the cheap restaurant Epstein had recommended . |
| 30 | At the first hedge she tried to clear . ’ |