Example sentences of "[adj] of first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The recorded balance might have been improved so far as the Berg is concerned had the soloist been fractionally more forward , and an extra desk each of first and second violins would have added more weight . |
| 2 | Little by little , however , the force of this long glen beneath the austere greyness of the Five Sisters touched Johnson , and he moved his position from that of first considering the political role of such remoteness , and the opportunities it gave for military strategies and subsequent escapes — Glenshiel had been the scene of a battle fifty-four years earlier in which local Highlanders unsuccessfully reinforced a Spanish invasion force — to being lulled by the sight of so many waters , brooks , burns , and silver rivulets , ‘ which commonly ran with a clear shallow stream over a hard pebbly bottom ’ . |
| 3 | The records are not stored in any particular sequence apart from that of first in , first out . |
| 4 | Such an aspiration prevailed among some geographers at least partly unaware of first , the revival of interest in human activity ; secondly , the focus in physical geography research upon the magnitude of human impact ; and thirdly , the hazard research that was facilitating closer links between physical and human geography although these links did not impress Johnston ( 1983c ) . |
| 5 | Atkinson , matching his attacking partner goal for goal , belted in the fourth from 20 yards , and the only question remaining after the most one-sided of first halves was which of them would be first to his hat trick . |
| 6 | Until Sunday , of course , when the Crusaders 's 30–0 walloping of First Division Wakefield was the Regal Trophy 's shock result . |
| 7 | With one round still to play in the Interpolis tournament in Tilburg , Holland , he is already sure of first place . |
| 8 | Memories galore of first dates , teenage crushes , high-school dances and rocking until midnight — captured forever in chartbusters like these … |
| 9 | A quota — 25% , 20% or 16.7% in constituencies of three , four or five members respectively — is in effect a barrier , more or less formidable in proportion to the number of votes ( not necessarily all of first preference ) that a party can attract . |
| 10 | It seemed the poor fellow , in the exuberance of his first air flight and the excitement of his history-making mission , had hurried onto the ‘ plane , leaving two mail-bags , both probably full of First Day Covers , in the rest-room at Moose Jaw Airport . |
| 11 | 911 is6packed full of first aid information on the correct procedures on a wide variety of injuries . |
| 12 | The procedure thus adopted is one of first checking the spatial relationships in the orthogonal reference space and , if not as desired , moving down to a local containing domain before the uncertainty is reported . |
| 13 | Digitizing boundaries of these areas was one of first GIS investments made . |
| 14 | Smith was unkindly greeted by one of the most difficult of first balls — dragging him forward , zooming in at his front pad , then ducking away at speed . |
| 15 | In the mid-1980s , about one-third of first births are illegitimate as was discussed in chapter 3 . |
| 16 | Perhaps a third of first births in Victorian times were so conceived . |