Example sentences of "the [noun] first [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is , given a sentence to parse the parser first determines the grammatical categories of the words in the sentence . |
| 2 | But no blows were struck then , or in the similar crises of 1051 and 1052 , when Edward the Confessor first secured the expulsion and then accepted the return of the powerful Godwin family . |
| 3 | It can therefore be taught to circle if ( a ) the shepherd first makes the dog run round to the other side of the flock , and then ( b ) moves himself and repeats the exercise . |
| 4 | ‘ You see , Roger , ’ Benjamin explained , ‘ the embalmers first slit the corpse open and remove the heart , stomach and entrails . |
| 5 | It was intended that the bureau should receive applications from both juveniles and employers , but no applicant could be put in touch with an employer without the exchange first contacting the CCC . |
| 6 | The closer to AD ( which lies on the stable manifold of the origin ) a trajectory starts , the closer to one of the points R or L it will return ; R is the point where the right-hand branch of the unstable manifold of the origin first strikes the top face of B , and L is the equivalent point for the left-hand branch . |
| 7 | When the constable first entered the Chequers , albeit in plain clothes , Slatter , the local man , had obviously left James in no doubt who they were . |
| 8 | The Institute first considered the possibility of extending openness to disciplinary hearings at the request of Council member Douglas Llambias , after he had been refused admittance as an observer to the Disciplinary Committee hearing into the conduct of Polly Peck administrators Michael Jordan and Richard Stone ( see ACCOUNTANCY , August , p 14 ) . |
| 9 | The canal first crosses the western arm of the M5 on a new concrete aqueduct . |
| 10 | It is now four years since the UN first backed the idea . |
| 11 | From the point when the water first burst the banks and began to rise up the gardens of the properties it was mainly a battle against he clock to try to stack everything as high as they could and take up the carpets . |
| 12 | Options 4 and 5 allow you to drop on either side of the lateral water hazard , not nearer the hole and within two club lengths of the point marked B , where the ball first entered the hazard . |
| 13 | In May 1983 the head first introduced the appraisal at a meeting of senior staff and I attended this meeting so that the research project could be explained and I could answer any questions staff might have . |
| 14 | The Court first rejected the Association 's argument that the agreement did not infringe Art 85(1) at all . |
| 15 | The first time was during the 1930s , when the court first read the commerce clause of the constitution so narrowly that it gutted much New Deal legislation , and then suddenly reversed itself . |
| 16 | Says Mike , ‘ When the chimps first saw the platform , they stared at it for a long time , and then they realised it was just me up there , and carried on . ’ |
| 17 | Perhaps it can be traced even deeper in the past — we can go back to the time when the woman first attracted the man whose child she will later bear , or to the onset of her menstruation , when her body signalled its readiness for pregnancy . |
| 18 | Such feelings are also suggested when the Cousin first meets the Young Girl in The Invitation . |
| 19 | Wood dyes are best applied with a cloth , because if applied with a brush , there will be dark areas where the brush first touches the wood . |
| 20 | The mediaeval Greek word for galley is katergon , and it was in this nautical sense that the word first entered the Russian vocabulary . |
| 21 | In a statement , Gloucestershire Police say 'the reason why the ambulance was cancelled when the police first attended the incident is being investigated by a senior officer' . |
| 22 | Strength , it turned out , is n't a prerequisite ( lucky thing , since tenor bells can weigh the same as a Mini ) ; in skilled hands the bell does most of the work , but a full ringing circle demands that the ringer first gets the bell moving and gradually increases the swing until the bell is balanced or ‘ set ’ with the mouth uppermost , ready to be rung on . |
| 23 | From what seems now like an almost total lack of concern when the news of the virus first reached the organization , there is currently a major emphasis within the organization and a constant campaign of re-education of both callers and volunteers . |
| 24 | The general drive towards improving standards and putting the customer first became the subject of best selling books with inspiring titles like In Search of Excellence and The Winning Streak . |
| 25 | The coastguard first informed the station of the situation at 1644 , and the lifeboat launched at 1705 into hurricane-force northerly winds gusting to more than 100 knots with a very heavy sea breaking on-shore . |
| 26 | The patient first attended the Royal Liverpool University Hospital in 1985 when she was 21 years old , worked as a clerk , and smoked eight cigarettes per day . |
| 27 | The Althorps first met the extrovert university-educated entrepreneur and his artist wife , Janet Munro Kerr at a dinner party in London . |
| 28 | The party first visited the Mariakerke Cemetery at Ghent , where the crew are buried , then attended a service at Moortsel church . |
| 29 | In the ‘ rational ’ decision-making model , the policy-maker first specifies the objectives that he is trying to achieve , second musters all the evidence necessary for an analysis of alternative ways of achieving these objectives and , third , chooses the most cost-effective means of achieving these objectives . |
| 30 | To work the system , the operator first takes the normal cap from the spray container to expose the foil seal . |