Example sentences of "to the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four years after their meeting he published an account of Venetian painters of the Renaissance , where he acknowledged ‘ his indebtedness to the first systematic writers on Italian painting no less than to the perfectors of the new critical method , now adopted by nearly all serious students of Italian art ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ Alas ’ , wrote Fernanda Eberstadt , a German-American , the later ones are inferior to the first two , and alas , the personal character imparted by his writings — freely imparted , one might add , and yet not unreservedly — is flawed . |
| 3 | The second sentence of the issue of May 1988 refers to the first twenty years of the state : ‘ Threatening to ‘ push the Jews into the sea ’ , the Arab world reformulated the Nazi theory of Lebensraum in Mediterranean terms : there was no room in the region for a Jewish homeland . ’ |
| 4 | Mr Doran had moved his wife 's cake to the first position , and Mr Clancy had moved it back to the middle , saying the first cake tasted had the best chance , and his wife 's cake would be first as it had got there first . |
| 5 | It was as though I had been deprived of my rights , as elder sister , to the first go at something . |
| 6 | Moving away from the terrace , broad steps drop down past a rose and herb bed edged with low growing box to the first lawn level , which would make an ideal play area . |
| 7 | ‘ Give these to the first person you come across , introduce yourself and see what happens , ’ she advised him , then set off on her own to the kitchen . |
| 8 | But how can a sentence have a causal role in relation to other sentences if the second sentence 's causal role is defined in terms of its relation to the first sentence ? |
| 9 | Your pulse rate will continue to decrease until it reverts to the first reading . |
| 10 | Joss is now offering inscribed and signed pewter tankards to the first twenty over-50s who complete the route . |
| 11 | A pleasant 15-minute walk brings you to the first two faces , which contain dozens of routes at VS to E1 . |
| 12 | All lighting circuits are radial ones — that is one cable goes from the fuseway in the consumer unit to the first light position , and then on to the second , and so on to the last on the circuit . |
| 13 | The finished transducer includes a second pickup coil at right angles to the first . |
| 14 | Berger said : ‘ He made it to the first corner ahead of me and I tried to hang on . |
| 15 | Wright looked acclimatised to the First Division , more so than his partner Bright , who has yet to score this season . |
| 16 | Listening to the first day 's proceedings , I found myself not transported into the future so much as revisiting the past . |
| 17 | Many had been awake all night , listening with increasing horror to the first confused reports of the massacre in Peking . |
| 18 | Mr Rawlins , 38 , has spent the past seven years working with the Lloyd 's insurance market and was once personal assistant to the first chief executive of that community , Ian Hay Davison . |
| 19 | The Independent can offer ten pairs of free tickets for Mon 9 Oct to the first ten readers who phone 01-436 0605 today ( between 10am and 10.30am only ) with the answer to the following question : which film is A Little Night Music based on ? |
| 20 | A MAJOR step in the development of the game in the ranks of the Services took place at St Helens on Sunday , when , in a curtain-raiser to the first match of the New Zealand tour , an RAF team defeated an Army XIII by 22-14 . |
| 21 | For the clubs , as ever , the issue is money , most of which goes to the First Division . |
| 22 | Salford intend to advertise for a full-time successor to the First Division 's longest serving coach . |
| 23 | And watch Humberside , fresh to the First Division , who scored 134 goals in their eight Autumn Trophy games . |
| 24 | The Independent has five pairs of free tickets to offer for this stimulating event , available to the first five readers to present this page at the Watershed Box Office from 10am this morning . |
| 25 | Walk : if the pitcher throws four balls before a third strike , the batter is automatically ‘ walked ’ to the first base . |
| 26 | ONE SOURCE of solace to the so far disappointing New Zealand tourists , who have a last chance at Leeds tomorrow to silence the doubters prior to the first Test next Saturday , must be the rate at which Great Britain 's best players are falling by the wayside . |
| 27 | Both had pars at the 37th - their third visit of the day to the first hole — and the end came at the short second where Faldo hit a seven-iron to three feet to break the deadlock with a two to a three . |
| 28 | Hughes , aged29 , has a remarkable record going back to the first women 's World Championships in 1980 including a world gold in 1986 , world bronze in 1987 and two European titles . |
| 29 | The casualties were carried past our position on their way to the First Aid post . |
| 30 | Two medics arrived and carried him off to the First Aid Post . |