Example sentences of "[noun] come first " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there 's spring to come first , with the violets and primroses , and then the summer . ’ |
| 2 | At this level of support the electoral system begins to work very handsomely in a party 's favour , and Labour came first in over three-quarters of the wards . |
| 3 | The appellant Wright came first in December 1990 and kept returning . |
| 4 | He might be drunk and bursting with frustration but words came first with him . |
| 5 | Eight six-weekly inspections were carried out and the winning department came first on five occasions . |
| 6 | The kids come first is n't it ? |
| 7 | ‘ While you work with me the interests of IAP and its clients come first . |
| 8 | Ground capacity at the club is to be cut to under 19,000 while rebuilding work goes ahead and chairman Sir John Hall said : ‘ Our own supporters come first . ’ |
| 9 | Lastly I fear that because the Mathematics programmes came first and were so well organised and established , with the neat sequential task of curriculum development so easy to define ( despite its obvious size ) , there may have been a tendency to concentrate scarce resources upon an item which , on sober reflection , I believe now to be a lowish priority in the primary curriculum . |
| 10 | Manufacturing support executive Mark Shingler said : ‘ Alexandra came first because of their very high standards and Imperial ran out joint winners because of their great improvement in standards . ’ |
| 11 | The horse is more steady , but the ox came first , so I think prefer the ox . |
| 12 | The election came first and the changes were never made . |
| 13 | In Wales , however , apathy came first , the status quo second and devolution a bad third , favoured by no more than 12 per cent of the electorate . |
| 14 | I would tend to think the titles came first as it was usual to show a composer something of what you were envisaging . |
| 15 | Again , it seems that the emotion of horror came first , and the dream was constructed to accommodate it . |
| 16 | I 'm not sure that The Correspondent came first , no I 'm not sure that anybody came first . |
| 17 | A detailed history from the service user and , where possible , those who know him or her well will indicate the hierarchy of problems : whether alcohol problems or the mental health difficulty came first , and whether heavy drinking was present before the development of mental health difficulties . |
| 18 | Now safely married , does he need to overstate his determination to come first , constantly afraid that if he gives an inch , he will inevitably lose a mile ? |
| 19 | It looks very much as if the version in the manuscript came first and Purcell did some polishing before the piece was printed — in the treble clef , of course , with an eye to the market . |
| 20 | Ido n't think it 's right , my husband 's remarried and there is an income coming in I always thought the child came first |
| 21 | A more dispassionate observer insists that ‘ The work came first . |
| 22 | The trainer shoes came first , then the ankle-socks . |
| 23 | As one white respondent noted in my study of mothers in low-income households , ‘ The bills come first , they 've got to , then the meters ( for fuel ) and then food . ’ |
| 24 | In this book , spiritual , mental and emotional well-being come first in this section on health and beauty , because caring for the needs of the inner person is not only of primary importance in itself but is also a great step towards achieving physical well-being . |
| 25 | The reference would then alter the binding of ‘ he ’ from the dog to the vet , purely because the structure for the ‘ he ’ pronoun comes first in the logical form . |
| 26 | Developmentally , dialogue comes first , both for the human species , and for the human individual . |
| 27 | Your Child Comes First |
| 28 | ‘ I 've been brought up to think that schoolwork comes first , you know , if you want to get anywhere . ’ |
| 29 | In Joan Halton 's attempt to be more whole , she needed to know more about her desire to come first , at least for part of the time , rather than always maintaining the veneer of premature maturity she had felt forced into adopting as a child . |
| 30 | The war came first , though anti-Chinese sentiment flared up periodically as the numbers of Chinese engaged in British ports continued to rise to 8,182 in 1914 and 14,224 in 1915 , increased by the diversion to the west of ships normally operating east of Suez . |