Example sentences of "think the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thought the first would be the most popular : all power to the STB ( the secret police ) . |
| 2 | In 1967 , Sir William Penney , then chairman of UKAEA , thought the first commercial reactor would be in operation in 1979 . |
| 3 | I thought the first half was funnier than the second half . |
| 4 | Then with a sardonic smile he replied : ‘ I think the first sign , the very first symptom of Waldsterben , was an attack of blindness in foresters . ’ |
| 5 | I think the first LP was a bit one-dimensional , like an arbitrary collection of jangly pop songs . |
| 6 | I think the first time I saw Day At The Beach they had it written on the wrong strings . |
| 7 | ‘ I think the first time they 'd felt they must accept an honest mistake . |
| 8 | I think the first two though , the on the job obviously |
| 9 | ‘ I think the first thing I tend to do ’ , said an area supervisor , ‘ is … to look at the normal working standards normally applied and see whether they would be adequate to protect the river ; and you then take into account the flow , the volume of the discharge or the rate of flow of the discharge and the volume . ’ |
| 10 | The other thing , which I think is a , another great misconception is er our present Prime Ministers ' policy of having a classless society , well I think the first thing is you could do is actually abolish the House of Lords and that will certainly be a start on having a classless society in this country . |
| 11 | I think there are various strategies that you can adopt with children , I think the first and most obvious is work through the educational system , through schools and there 's been many excellent school 's programmes developed ! |
| 12 | On page two I think the first thing was , was the erm results of the air conditioning on Wellesey House is still omitted . |
| 13 | I think the first thing is to improve the appearance , because the area itself appears to me to be to be thriving . |
| 14 | ‘ I think the first thing I saw was the isolation of each . |
| 15 | Can I just just just move on cos I think the first thing we 're gon na pick up on this is this entitlement business again . |
| 16 | I think the first thing you 're going to need from any candidate is that they 're going to have to believe in Europe . |
| 17 | I think the first ones we had were about nineteen thirty six I believe . |
| 18 | ‘ I think the first clue I had that I might still be on the team was when your mum pitched up to inspect the body . ’ |
| 19 | And that 's because the third world is bigger than any other section whether you call it the first world or second world or whatever , and I think the first and second put together . |
| 20 | I 'll go straight into er item two A I think the first thing the County Council would would wish to say this erm examination is that er today we are really seeing the culmination of I suspect er ten year work erm in Greater York by the Greater York authority and a particularly intensive period of work over the last five years , er by the Greater York authorities , the paper that I put round N Y five the matter two A really addresses the history and why we reached the conclusions corporately that we have and as all as we 've already indicated erm progress was able to be made when the Secretary of State included a Greater York er dimension erm into the er into the structure plan in a the first alteration , erm and that enabled a body of work to be undertaken by the Greater York authority , and I think I ought to say at this point that the Greater York authority comprises of the County Council er and five District Councils , and there you have six different councils , all with an interest in the future of Greater York , sitting down together , trying to sort out the way in which the future of Greater York erm ought ought to be developed , and the means they did it did that of course was through the Greater York study , which began in nineteen eighty eight and started off immediately with a study of forty , fifty development , potential development sites , erm in and around er er Greater York which produced a report , as I said in on page three of the of N Y five , around about April nineteen eighty nine , the conclusions of which were quite clearly unacceptable to erm members of the Greater York authority , because they saw quite clearly , and they were supported by the public in this , that to continue peripheral development , which had been the pattern of development in the Greater York area , erm certainly through the sixties and seventies er was unacceptable in terms of its impact on settlements , and particularly er its impact erm on erm erm the York greenbelt which still at that stage erm had yet to be made statutory , and that was again one of the main stimuli to making progress , the need to s formally define er the York greenbelt . |
| 21 | I think the first stage process is to decide who needs training and what they need to know . |
| 22 | I think the first minute and a half will stay with me for quite a while . |
| 23 | I think the first two are pretty much certain and i 've a feeling he would accept it if he was given the nod . |
| 24 | Because I think the first question to ask is , just what is this all about ? |
| 25 | Can I just take the panel back through the er l back to basics on this matter in terms of the Greater in terms of Greater York and the the areas searched , firstly I think the first point of fact , there 's no part of that sector as far as I 'm aware that 's subject to any landscape designations either national or local . |
| 26 | I think the first priority is that people are clear as to what the score is . |
| 27 | That er , er , little action has been taken in the last thirty forty years since this has been being discussed , erm , I think the first international conference erm , produced their own report in nineteen sixty . |
| 28 | Er so I think the first of my four points is the is the airframe agility , clearly the the ability to m manoeuvre . |
| 29 | Now do n't take that too literally , certainly in sub zero temperatures and I think the first of December and to do so would I think er have er maybe with some risk of being in 's phrase stark raving bonkers but by that you may think I mean that I think we made a fair attempt to deal with the three principle issues which have caused so much annoyance to user groups , there 's a backlog in modification orders . |
| 30 | I think the first evidence we have of that , is when Brocklehurst has placed her on the stool and publicly humiliated her . |