Example sentences of "[conj] it first " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is not surprising that it first arose in what history has called ‘ the Hungry Forties ’ . |
| 2 | Nova Bio-medical has updated its series of ISE based electrolyte analysers that it first launched in 1977 . |
| 3 | So the increased interest in fitness may not be the healthy trend that it first appeared to be . |
| 4 | Cognos notes that it first entered the Japanese market in 1985 and initially sold its products there through distributors for Hewlett-Packard Co , Digital Equipment Corp and Data General Corp hardware . |
| 5 | Platinum first reached Europe in the wake of Spanish colonial enterprise , but it was not until 1741 that it first reached England . |
| 6 | With both of these the jerky quality of the animation makes it more difficult that it first appears . |
| 7 | Although it had been conceived originally as a means of reducing illegal practices during the process of distillation , the ‘ Coffey still ’ had obvious commercial advantages , but his efforts to introduce it in Ireland met with little success , and it was in Scotland that it first became popular in the 1840s . |
| 8 | Informal observations suggest that it first becomes popular as a peer group language at the age of eleven or twelve . |
| 9 | This is tougher than it first looks as it does not cover news , sport , game-shows or teletext services . |
| 10 | Take-up on that scale could make Mr Major 's first budget a lot more memorable than it first appeared . |
| 11 | Hooker 's success could be even more impressive than it first appears , since some reference works list his date of birth as August 22 , 1917 . |
| 12 | Often , this is more complex than it first appears . |
| 13 | However in practice the change has been less dramatic than it first appears , for two reasons . |
| 14 | Suddenly the hour is less pleasant than it first appeared |
| 15 | Although Labour 's defeat was crushing ( its share of the vote dropped by almost 13 percentage points ) , the National Party victory was less decisive than it first appeared . |
| 16 | The Cathedral Hotel , next door , was also at one time in the hands of the Wilkes family and it first came to my notice when an extra floor was added in 1922/23 . |
| 17 | The Government has paid out £150m to former BC investors since the company 's collapse , and it first voiced its intention to recover as much of that sum as possible from BC 's professional advisers almost three years ago . |
| 18 | Treatment for a sexual problem in one partner is rarely successful , or if it first appears so when some mental block is eased , results in the exposure of the problem in the other . |
| 19 | If it first encounters P , it can not get through at all , since it is the state which is extinguished by P , . |
| 20 | 15 ( 1 ) No action shall be brought by any person to recover any land after the expiration of twelve years from the date on which the right of action accrued to him or , if it first accrued to some person through whom he claims , to that person . |
| 21 | ‘ Liverpool have exploited that but it first came to me many years ago in a charity match at Newcastle . |
| 22 | Decio where the courts ruled that a corporation could not recover unless it first proved that it had in fact been injured by the insider 's illicit trading . |
| 23 | It can not do this unless it first challenges the secularist assumption so endemic in our society . |
| 24 | El Nino ( ’ the child ’ , because it first becomes apparent around Christmas ) is a warm ocean current that recurs every seven to 14 years . |
| 25 | This was because it first and foremost provided for our species ' impressive pattern of braingrowth . |
| 26 | Dismissed as a novelty ever since it first began , rap has not only survived but has provided us with endless pleasures and variations . |
| 27 | One of the latter is a book that has become a favourite in the two years since it first appeared in hardback form . |
| 28 | Among their other talismans is a little Buddha to which the Buddhist Society of Great Britain have apparently taken exception , although the Cross of Lourdes has only attracted five letters of complaint to the magazine since it first was advertised nine months ago . |
| 29 | Since it first met 15 months ago , the council has spent £732 000 setting itself up but seems no nearer completing its task of replacing the ineffectual Council of Engineering Institutions in such areas as improving engineering education , taking over registration of engineers and improving the status of the profession . |
| 30 | ‘ I have been teaching Connections since it first came out , and I enjoy it very much , and so do the vast majority of our students . ’ |