Example sentences of "must [verb] the first " in BNC.

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1 Maxim felt a moment of total disorientation before he realised that something must have gone badly wrong , that because she had not greeted him he must stay being Winterbotham , that because they were strangers he must make the first move .
2 This is not considered in much detail by Marslen-Wilson and Tyler ( 1980 ) ; however , they do suggest that the acoustic-phonetic information needed to define the word-initial cohort must include the first vowel of the word .
3 Note that unc and unc can not both be zero , or A would be singular and R would not exist ; similarly for unc We choose a nonzero element from these four -say unc and then unc The last step is not arbitrary : we must exclude the first three rows ( containing units ) , so that the only choice for pivot in the next step is D44 , which can not be zero .
4 To make them equally likely , we must multiply the first of Equations ( 1 ) , at t = 1 , by 6 ; the second , at t = 2 , by 3 ; the third , at t = 3 , by 2 , etc ; i.e. we premultiply ( 1 ) by Diag(6,3,2,1,5,1,2,1) .
5 We must celebrate the first .
6 I must quote the first two subsections :
7 It wo n't be easy , but we must take the first steps now .
8 Students who wish to enter a combined course must complete the first year satisfactorily , with passes in two units in each of the two subjects which they wish to combine .
9 To qualify , the 3 digits revealed on your seal must match the first three digits of the Early Reply Bonus code on your Prize Draw Eligibility Record .
10 To qualify , the 3 digits revealed on your seal must match the first three digits of the Early Reply Bonus code on your Prize Draw Eligibility Record .
11 What 's more , he had also learned that he must ignore the first playing of the tune , and wait 15 minutes until it played again at the end of the programme — the dog would look up quizzically at the sound of the familiar music but stay still , apparently too smart to respond to an obvious false alarm .
12 As a pattern making and using system the mind must accept the first acceptable answer .
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