Example sentences of "[be] first [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The important judicial dignities in Edinburgh attracted a great deal of competitive interest , and men watched the health of the incumbents closely in order to be sure to be first to ask for the vacant place in the event of a death . |
| 2 | A recent report by the Select Committee on Procedure criticised the abuse of this process for publicity purposes and recommended that the text of any bill proposed should be first lodged with the Public Bill Office . |
| 3 | These places are mentioned in the eleventh century , while the dependent settlements in the woods may not be first mentioned until the twelfth or thirteenth centuries . |
| 4 | The AEC Treaty was signed on June 3 ( the concept of an economic community having been first formulated in the 1968 Declaration of Algiers ) . |
| 5 | To begin with , the first draft regulations were not received until July 1987 instead of March 1987 as had been first intimated by the DHSS . |
| 6 | This had been first attempted in the early years of the nineteenth century . |
| 7 | Although the original bond rules state that transfers ‘ must have been first approved by the Club Committee ’ this appears never to have happened , although at some stage the rule was amended to apply only to ‘ non-member ’ transferees . |
| 8 | It was necessary to show that at least some of them might have been first acquired through the will , in order to satisfy a desire , or to relieve a disagreeable sensation . |
| 9 | Although caddying was in decline after 1950 ( the year trolleys are first recorded on the course ) , the Club considered engaging a new caddie master after his retirement , but it seems did not do so . |
| 10 | In the opening sequence of Le Cheval de Troie the workers are first seen in the countryside viewing the town of Villefranche , the site of their daily oppression , at a distance . |
| 11 | Nuclear power is a national option with repercussions that are first felt at the regional and local levels . |
| 12 | Words are first matched against the input on the basis of their syllable structure . |
| 13 | If the warren and burrow systems are first cleared in the autumn , subsequent work in the area on other systems is likely to lead to rabbits evicted from one set of burrows going to ground elsewhere . |
| 14 | When goods are delivered to the retailer they are first checked against the delivery note and entered in the stock records . |
| 15 | It 's hard to imagine a more isolated and upsetting set of circumstances in which you are first confronted with the public break-up of your family home . |
| 16 | Most of the seminal papers which give rise to paradigm shifts , and the creation of new journals to publish new subjects or combinations of subjects , are first published in the core journal set for the earlier research front , and the clusters which define the new research front may not include the journal which first published the paper which led to its inception . |
| 17 | Glass sides are first marked with the specimen number of the sample and any ‘ way up ’ indications which have been preserved , using a diamond scribe near one edge of the obverse glass face . |
| 18 | An officially estimated 75 per cent of British children speak their mother tongue , which they hear at home , abysmally , and will , in the course of time , pass on to their own children , since , after all , languages are first learnt with the ears and not grammar books . |
| 19 | Because the new financial year is starting when the estimates are first submitted to the House , and final approval is ( then ) some months off , statutory authority for issues out of the Consolidated Fund to meet expenditure during this period is provided by a system of lump-sum votes on account . |
| 20 | Input signals are first coupled to the volume control VR1 via the d.c. blocking capacitor C1 . |
| 21 | These traps are large constructions of poles and wire netting which were first devised on the island of Heligoland , off the German coast in the North Sea . |
| 22 | In his first season , McKinnon will present two plays which were first seen at the Traverse Theatre , Edinburgh . |
| 23 | Those images were first seen in the catechisms , Bibles , books of hours , and hymnals used to convert the Indians and direct their worship . |
| 24 | The first bonding systems for dentine that were reproducible enough to eliminate the need for mechanically retentive cavities were first seen in the late 1970s . |
| 25 | This fanatical regard for esteemed works as they were first given to the public leads to intimidating variations in price . |
| 26 | His lectures on Milton were first given in the beautiful fifteenth-century Divinity Schools , underneath the Bodleian Library . |
| 27 | When American troops were first sent to the Gulf Region after the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait , the reason given by the US for this deployment of troops was the protection of Saudi Arabia from an ‘ eventual invasion by Iraq ’ . |
| 28 | But anyway when y you were first sent with the British battalion to , was that ? . |
| 29 | Vehicles for repair were first placed in the initial examination bay , this activity occupying three rows in the top paint shop . |
| 30 | No Monday last , when the designs were first displayed to the public , it is believed that 10,000 persons visited the exhibition ; on Tuesday , when the crowd was somewhat less , 7,000 were present ; and on Wednesday the numbers again reached to 10,000 . |