Example sentences of "[verb] to the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The synoptic outline might have been more serviceable had it been separated from the list of languages and moved to the first volume . |
| 2 | Poor weather in the US contributed to the first fall in profit before tax at Tate & Lyle for 14 years . |
| 3 | Hermeneutics is committed to the first and hence to giving some account of how internal orderings relate to reality . |
| 4 | Neath , who have failed to match last season 's title-winning form , mainly because the younger players have required time to adjust to the First Division , scored three tries during an eight-minute period in the second half . |
| 5 | The second was added to the first , over the cheek and lower jaw , to give a further stage of disintegration . |
| 6 | Her thoughts were interrupted by the sound of planes again , only this time there was a different engine note added to the first , low and heavy , making a rhythmic thrumming inside her head and growing stronger every second . |
| 7 | For covalent compounds , a prefix is often added to the first and-or second name to indicate the ratio of atoms in the compound . |
| 8 | This estimate of classical unemployment , when added to the first estimate of natural unemployment , will determine the magnitude of the Keynesian component of observed unemployment . |
| 9 | This , according to a Gascon petition of 1279 , was traditionally composed of the prelates , barons , knights and other nobles of the land and was to adjudge all cases concerning inheritance and other matters relating to the first two estates ( clergy and nobility ) of the duchy . |
| 10 | In the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan , 376 U.S. 254 relating to the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the American Constitution , the sentiments expressed by Brennan J. in his opinion accord closely with the approach of the European Court of Human Rights . |
| 11 | In my view , when the truth of representations is being considered , no objection can be taken to the request relating to the first audit , nor to the second audit since the latter may well reveal material relevant to the conduct of the company 's business before acquisition and after acquisition in a way which reflects on the earlier conduct of the business . |
| 12 | In addition to its involvement of the country 's most famous political family , the case also acquired constitutional implications — relating to the First Amendment 's guarantee of freedom of speech — when charges were also filed against The Globe newspaper , a national supermarket tabloid , for having violated a 1911 Florida law by publishing the name of the woman . |
| 13 | The problems arise when we shift to the first person , asking how we come to have knowledge of the world , and asking how we are justified in dismissing the possibility that reality is wholly other than we take it to be . |
| 14 | Returning to the first assumption of left idealism — the interpretation of the ideological nature of working-class crime — here we are presented with much greater difficulties . |
| 15 | Derry , on the other hand , will be at full strength with Paul Trainor returning to the first team panel after serving a one match suspension against Limerick last weekend . |
| 16 | These improvements in mortality are now almost totally confined to the first year of life and the years after age 65 . |
| 17 | It is to be hoped that as a result of the guidance in the subsequent paragraphs most will be confined to the first two categories . |
| 18 | Independent interrogation by the police is confined to the first 48 hours after the offence has been reported . |
| 19 | Many people would claim that the role of science is confined to the first of these and that theoretical physics will have achieved its goal when we have obtained a complete set of local physical laws . |
| 20 | But the parties are not confined to the first perspective . |
| 21 | Although it is scattered throughout the idealised version , in the original version it is confined to the first half of the story . |
| 22 | The enthalpy corresponds to the first electron affinity of chlorine ( see section 3.1 ) . |
| 23 | The stone free date corresponds to the first time the gall bladder was considered to be free of fragments and sludge . |
| 24 | I can see nothing in principle to prevent a contemnor applying to the first instance court to be released from custody on the ground that the failure to serve him with the committal order has kept him in ignorance of the contempts for which he has been imprisoned and that , in the circumstances , justice requires his release . |
| 25 | Now , when you say to the first person ‘ point to a row across ’ if they point to a row without a king you say ‘ You pointed to this I will take it away ’ . |
| 26 | A BOTTLE of sherry and flowers were presented to the first resident of a new nursing home which opened this week . |
| 27 | Listening to the first day 's proceedings , I found myself not transported into the future so much as revisiting the past . |
| 28 | I have to admit that I was expecting something rather special from him , but listening to the first instalment in his survey of the sonatas has only strengthened my opinion that it seems almost impossible for one pianist to attain a consistent level of achievement in all of the sonatas . |
| 29 | Thank you Chairman erm I would like I know that you 've been listening to the first er part of our session this afternoon , erm and I 'd like to ask you to discuss with us one of the questions that we asked the group the Pension Fund erm and that 's to discuss the balance of power that exists between the employer and the various groups and classes of pensioner . |
| 30 | Yet it is migration to and from rural areas that has been the main concern of rural geographers in the last century , and so attention is now turned to the first major theme of this chapter , rural population change . |