Example sentences of "[be] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I said to er one lady who 's been for first time and she thinks it 's marvellous ! |
| 2 | It is significant that under imitation forms , he states that ‘ the above , i.e. Nos. 170 — 178 , are dated by the Sigillata forms they imitate , which are of first century type . |
| 3 | The weakness of both the holistic and individualistic approaches is that they are both in their different ways incapable of explaining the origins of phenomena ; yet it is the origins which are of first importance in understanding human psychology and society . |
| 4 | If they go in that condition the tax charged will be cheaper than if they 're in first class condition . |
| 5 | ‘ But be sure you 're in first thing tomorrow morning . |
| 6 | I 'll see if they 're in first . |
| 7 | First of all , we 're on first name terms here . |
| 8 | Er it 's not difficult at all really Don , I think when you 're at first thing do , it might be a bit of a |
| 9 | Some signing — he 's been with first division , Avignon in the French league and is used to playing with the best . |
| 10 | Well , I must have been in first year juniors . |
| 11 | ‘ Both locos are in first class condition once again , and , in the run-up to our gala , the two Hunslets will have been restored on passenger trains . |
| 12 | This is achieved if the relations are in first normal form and all non-key attributes are fully functionally dependent on all the key . |
| 13 | For example , what should the government 's policy be towards First Secretary Gorbachev 's attempt at perestroika ( economic and social reconstruction within the Soviet Union ) ? |
| 14 | Thus it is argued that the gain in profits of changing prices may only be of second order , whereas the welfare losses from the resulting rigidities may be of first order . |
| 15 | We would all prefer to be in first , and becoming a fund-holder is a bit like a traveller being given the difference in the fare between the two classes . |
| 16 | Hello seven three one eight , no Roger 's off duty at the moment it 's Chris here erm , he should be , hang on I 'll just have to look at the watch roster and check up on precisely what his movements are , erm just look through tomorrow and I can find the right page in the roster here , er , two thir yeah , he 'll be on tower , so he 'll be in first thing tomorrow from about seven , seven o'clock onwards . |
| 17 | I 'll be in first thing for half an hour and then I 'm off alright . |
| 18 | Crusaders , and now it seems Linfield , will be in first round action later this month . |
| 19 | Our advise would be to first speak to your accountants who would be able to talk you through the various options which are : |
| 20 | The whole clause is not qualified , as it appears to be on first reading , by the opening words ‘ with intent . ’ |
| 21 | The particular premises that Let It Rock occupied had always been in the very vanguard of London fashion trends but working there was n't as much of a shock as I thought it was going to be at first . |
| 22 | Generous though the offer seemed to be at first sight , it was in American interests to acquire missile sites in Britain to bring the Soviet Union within range of American attack . |
| 23 | He proposed a test , based on communication via teletypes with an unseen entity that was to be at first a human and then a computer , and if the human interlocutor , who had been told he was communicating on the subject of the differences between men and women , failed to notice that a machine had been substituted for the original human partner in the dialogue , then the machine was deemed to have passed the test , and Turing suggested we might as well speak of such a successful machine as thinking by polite convention , just as , ‘ instead of arguing continually … it is usual to have a polite convention that everybody thinks ’ . |
| 24 | But there is little room for a comprehensive view , though it gives the generalists a basis for comparisons which may not be at first apparent . |
| 25 | The process of fusing Ministerial intentions and departmental expertise in the formulation of policy is a great deal more subtle than it appears to be at first sight . |
| 26 | For , after all , it was not humility that restrained her from believing herself to be at first sight infinitely interesting , for she believed herself to be the equal even of Clelia Denham : it was simply a deference to the law of probability . |
| 27 | But the arrangement is more artful than it might appear to be at first sight . |
| 28 | The variety of sexual identities then possible took control of the ‘ private ’ out of the hands of the dominant culture ; it is this fact , just as much as the actual physical acts , that made the ‘ permissive ’ society ( as it was called by the right ) a phenomenon to be at first feared , and finally to be held up as what was wrong with Britain . |
| 29 | If we try again it will be at first light with a photographer and no-one else present or maybe with just ourselves present . |
| 30 | Choosing and changing topics are , are going to appear , I 'm , I 'm saying rightly , that it 's going to be at first hard . |