Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doctors and pharmacists all heard first of Opren 's suspension from the media or from patients long before Goldberg 's letter arrived . |
| 2 | Although it can be as profuse as a gonococcal discharge , it is sometimes only seen first thing in the morning before urine has been passed . |
| 3 | Works by Laurence Broderick , Nicola Hicks , Kate Braine , Kevin Sinnott and Ian Davenport all made first appearances with varying degrees of success . |
| 4 | It traces the changes which occur to heart and body when a so called first class citizen is cast on the junkheap of second class citizenship . ’ |
| 5 | Various up-front creditors are not only paid first but , if the money is available , they are usually paid in full . |
| 6 | When trading in or throwing away an old " fridge " try to make sure that it is not going to be just broken up without the CFC gas being properly collected first . |
| 7 | Michael from Bedale has just come first in the Caterbility contest for cookery students organised by British Gas . |
| 8 | Joint authorship in an author 's first paper may be justifiable on grounds of inexperience , but the Science Citation Index ( SCI ) policy of indexing under the first author only will fail to identify the output of Ph D research if the researcher is not named first . |
| 9 | ( If the proverb is not understood first time , the PP writes down the key word and then repeats the whole proverb up-to-time . ) |
| 10 | It is generally assumed first , that this ‘ ceremonial recognition of his son as king in his own lifetime was something new ’ ( although Aethelred of Mercia , for example , is said to have appointed Coenred as his heir ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 57 ) , second , that it was the first royal anointing in England ( though reservations have been expressed as to whether Ecgfrith was anointed or , if he was , whether he was the first ) , and , third , that Offa was basing his action on the recent papal consecration in 781 of the Frankish princes , Pippin and Louis , sons of Charlemagne ( though Byzantine precedents are also possible ) . |
| 11 | The handles were generally fixed first , also by plain rivets burred over on the shield 's front , at right angles to the grain of the wood ( Leeds and Shortt 1953 , p. 56 ; Jarvis et al . |
| 12 | These results ( Bard et al 1987 ) appear to be very good , but when one looks at the ranking of the output utterances from which the recognition rates were computed , 30 out of the 79 best-matching utterances were not output first , although they ranked equal first in score . |
| 13 | In the mid-class runs , 43 best-matches out of 73 utterances were not output first ; 16 of these were at or below position 10 . |
| 14 | Congratulatory messages flooded in from senior RAF commanders , including the Chief of the Air Staff , Portal — ‘ I have just read first accounts of Bremen raid . |
| 15 | The name of the element closer to the bottom or to the left-hand side of the Periodic Table is usually given first . |
| 16 | ‘ Adults have always come first in tennis clubs , ’ says Lawson . |
| 17 | " Packaging the campaign " is a public relations function and that packaging is usually done first for the media — the powerful ally or potential enemy of your campaign . |
| 18 | ‘ The most urgent work is always done first . |
| 19 | In the standard recovery , the full opposite rudder is always applied first , and if it does slow down the rotation , the nose of the glider will automatically drop , helping to unstall the wings . |
| 20 | She 'd written about a new restaurant or hotel in one of the issues , a ‘ puff ’ being the expression , I think ; gone on an inter-island cruise ; star piece , always shown first , was her interview with their president 's wife . |
| 21 | He was always served first . |
| 22 | The liver was usually eaten first and some of the tasty bits , like the spare ribs , sausages and chines — that 's pieces of the backbone — would be sent round to friends and neighbours . |
| 23 | Began this season at record home-run pace , slowed later on but still finished first in majors for home runs ( 47 ) and RBIs ( 125 ) . |
| 24 | When Goblin casualties are taken any odd Goblins are always removed first , leaving as many complete pairs as possible . |
| 25 | One of the tasks always mentioned first in any discussion of the question is the carrying of formes containing set-up type ( they were indeed very heavy and it did no one 's back any good to carry them ) . |
| 26 | But when she 'd arrived the boat had been deserted and , as darkness had gradually obscured first the surrounding countryside and then the outlines of neighbouring boats , none of them showing any lights , she had become just a little anxious . |
| 27 | Garling 's design was also placed first on Angell and Pownall 's and Burn 's War Department lists , although the first place they awarded to another Second Empire scheme on the Foreign Office list , was only awarded the second prize by the judges . |
| 28 | The neck was probably broken first . |
| 29 | The high rate of induced viral latency was probably related first to the short initial interferon course that reduced viral replication significantly before the start of the second longterm course and second to prolongation of therapy in partial responders which induced additional HBeAg seroconversion . |
| 30 | The foreign intelligence operations were now to be conducted by a new and as yet unnamed state agency separate from the KGB ( although Primakov was also named first deputy chair of the KGB ) , and would concentrate on national security and on monitoring the international drugs trade and terrorism . |