Example sentences of "[adv] the first " in BNC.
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1 | Professor N. Ambraseys was arguably the first to recognise the full implications of the study of the history of earthquakes to the science of tectonics . |
2 | We would do well to look at the life of the one who is arguably the first church planter ; the apostle Peter . |
3 | He became arguably the first industrial designer , working in ceramic , glass , metal , furniture , wallpapers , and textiles . |
4 | With a full house of 185 at last Tuesday 's event in Edinburgh University , part-funded by Lothian and Edinburgh Enterprise , it is arguably the first held by the IoD , that predominantly male organisation , where the overwhelming majority was female . |
5 | To design any piece of audio equipment successfully the first stage is to define exactly what it is that you require and determine the circuit from this information . |
6 | He was rarely the first to suggest what should be done ; when the others spoke he listened with half an ear , made up his mind what course to follow and followed it without hesitation as though no other were possible . |
7 | Founded in 1583 , the University has a distinguished tradition of learning and of innovation , including examples in the Arts ( Edinburgh established the first Chair of English Literature in Britain ) , in the Sciences ( with the UK 's first Chair of Agriculture and latterly the first Chair and Department of Artificial Intelligence ) and , of course , in Medicine and the other professions . |
8 | This is presumably the first in a series of large format paperbacks , with a fairly substantial text giving a concise summary of campaign history backed up by numerous black and white photographs from government sources ; and pages of coloured artwork mostly devoted to uniformed figures , with a few showing aircraft , armour and artillery . |
9 | There was ‘ a foreign substance which can be felt by touch under the skin of the neck ’ , which was presumably the first and fatal bullet fired by Abbas Mohamed . |
10 | They had two sons , baptized in Truro in 1808 and 1809 , both called William ( presumably the first died ) . |
11 | Getting the paper work right the first time saves the customer being bothered with further questions . |
12 | He had been right the first time . |
13 | you were right the first time . |
14 | Right facing this way Simon can you turn round as well please , Robert Right the first game very easy , I 'm going to point to somebody , we 're going to go through the alphabet , they 're going to give me the name of an animal . |
15 | ‘ No … you were right the first time : what happened between us was a dreadful mistake … unplanned . |
16 | It was the fact that he felt he had done it right the first time and not nearly as well the second time . |
17 | Izzie returned with the cups of wine , saying softly to her father without looking at Gabriel , ‘ Was n't I right the first time I saw this boy ? |
18 | ‘ Do it right the first time , ’ is probably the best and shortest way to sum up the quality improvement process . |
19 | No , oh you had it right the first time , oh no you did n't , you need a face , find a face , look . |
20 | No , you were right the first time boy ! |
21 | right the first time . |
22 | yeah I mean to be honest it 's just a case of one of you , it does go that way , I knew I was right the first time , of one of you just remembering |
23 | In the province of Santa Barbara , in 1887 , as we learn in Odtaa ( chronologically the first book , though written and published second ) a mad dictator , Don Lopez , withstands a determined but seemingly hopeless attempt by a heroic friend of the people , Don Manuel , to overthrow his tyranny . |
24 | In 1912 Punnett was appointed to the Balfour professorship of biology at Cambridge — effectively the first chair of genetics to be established anywhere — after Bateson had declined it . |
25 | Advocating a full multiparty democratic system and the CPSU 's abandonment of " democratic centralism " , this was effectively the first faction openly to have emerged in the CPSU since the 1920s . |
26 | Prior to the change in the law the relevant income tax provisions only referred to " income " ( ie there was only effectively the first limb ) and the House of Lords in Perry v Astor held that " income " following Colquhoun v Brooks [ 1889 ] 14 AC 493 , ( 1889 ) 2 TC 490 meant " any income chargeable to a tax under the British Finance Act of the year " . |
27 | As they turned into the straight on the first circuit Mill House , jumping like a buck , had the lead , with Arkle pulling hard in his wake and taking his fences superbly . |
28 | In the main part of the building the paintings are hung on the first and second floors . |
29 | practice of using a white number on a small blue plate hung on the first window pillar . |
30 | He drop-kicked the telegram away , went out for a drink and turned up months later on the first day of filming amiable as an old soldier . |