Example sentences of "[art] first [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The popular health system was one of the first organized by the popular movement and the revolutionary groups that formed the FMLN in 1980 . |
| 2 | To live in these courts must have been like living in perpetual gloom , thank goodness they were some of the first to go during the rehousing purge between the wars . |
| 3 | My name was the first to go on the Dux board in the school hall of the brand-new , glass-walled building only just completed the year before . |
| 4 | I wonder , bearing in mind that incident , however serious , or minor it was , would you be one of the first to go through the Channel Tunnel ? |
| 5 | The two armies met at Sagrajas and the first to engage with the Christians were Motamid 's own native Spanish Moslems . |
| 6 | The soldier was the first to die along the Syrian-Israeli border since 1975 . |
| 7 | The first arose from the government 's decision to impose a standstill grant for that year — in effect a reduction in the District 's planned programme in the 1952–53 session at a time when much patient work to gain support from trade union branches and members had succeeded particularly in Norwich and Northamptonshire . |
| 8 | The brick was wrapped in two notes , the first apologised for the mess and the second , bearing Trevor Proby 's signature , offered to lend me the £250 the club are still trying to stitch me for after that car boot sale fiasco . |
| 9 | However , Foley 's mill was probably the first erected in the midlands , and may have been of a new design . |
| 10 | The first relates to the ‘ gay Vestment ’ [ see ‘ The Disappointment ’ , ML , 2 , 79 ] which Sophronia suggested might be given to Leapor . |
| 11 | The first relates to the extraordinarily wide scope of the warrants . |
| 12 | The first relates to the capacity of the teacher training colleges adequately to supervise their scattered students . |
| 13 | The first relates to the idea , taken from linguistic theory , that there are two main types of anaphoric expression : those that are interpreted with respect to the surface form of a text and those that are interpreted with respect to its meaning . |
| 14 | The first relates to the power of the court : in appeal proceedings the court has the power to substitute its decision on the matters in issue for that of the body appealed from . |
| 15 | The first relates to the level of demand for the products produced . |
| 16 | The first relates to the desirability of undertaking central development work where only one college is involved . |
| 17 | The first relates to the implied term as to merchantable quality . |
| 18 | The first relates to the provision by the buyer of jigs , tools and gauges . |
| 19 | The first relates to the pricing of oil and gas supplies , the second to apportioning costs and entitlements in unitised oil and gas fields and the third to the construction of facilities . |
| 20 | The first depends on the views I have already expressed . |
| 21 | The first related to the damaged Iraqi terminals . |
| 22 | The average rank of the first hit in the sequence of words for use in forming islands was 4.8 , and the rank did not increase with sentence length … |
| 23 | Stance for the lunge punch : this stance is usually the first taught to the new student . |
| 24 | Arabella Buckley was the first to recover from the shock of that strange outpouring . |
| 25 | Leamington Spa , the 17th largest society in 1990 , was the first to exit from the market via a merger after declaring a loss . |
| 26 | Among the first to respond to the new President 's call for 75,000 men was John MacArthur , born in Elderslie in Renfrewshire , and Commander of the Highland Guard of Chicago . |
| 27 | He was among the first to respond to the call to the colours in the 1st World War and the outcome was clear . |
| 28 | Both scientist and engineer , biologist and doctor , chemist and agriculturist may be handling the same kind of data , but where the first intervenes in the world in order to understand it , the second has to understand the world in order to intervene in it . |
| 29 | The first refers to the manner in which the tribunals interpret and apply employment legislation , though the Report recognizes that the complex language and structure of the controlling legislation contributes to the potential for legalism . |
| 30 | The first refers to the ‘ ontological security ’ which we discuss in Chapter 1 : the attempts by people to gain some understanding and a sense of ‘ self ’ and social identity in the natural and social worlds . |