Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is obviously sensible to look first of all at public spending programmes . |
| 2 | Lee is even more Machiavellian : ‘ It is a safe bet that there are those in the Pakistan dressing-room who believe Javed Miandad was wrong to bat first , ’ he declares boldly on Friday morning . |
| 3 | It amazes me how ready small investors are to buy rubbishy ‘ penny shares ’ when it is so easy to spot first class quality companies with shares at a bargain basement levels . |
| 4 | To understand the behaviour of polymers in solution more fully , a knowledge of the enthalpic and entropic contributions to ΔG M is essential , and it is instructive to consider first mixtures of small molecules , to establish some fundamental rules concerning ideal and non-ideal behaviour . |
| 5 | It is instructive to consider first the related but more readily understood process of the mixing of a scalar contaminant . |
| 6 | Before examining any of those authorities , I think it appropriate to consider first what the statute on its face appears to require . |
| 7 | It is virtually impossible to succeed first time . |
| 8 | Am I supposed to eat first or open these first ? |
| 9 | The strongest link between the UPV and illegal acts of violence came with a series of bombings in 1969 which , ironically , the Protestant Telegraph was quick to blame first on the IRA and then on the Eire government . |
| 10 | Japan is likely to cut first . |
| 11 | The expression " by post " includes ordinary post , though it may be preferable to use first class . |
| 12 | She was to be sure to concentrate first on the relaxation part of the exercise , and was to stop immediately if she felt herself becoming at all upset . |
| 13 | To examine this , however , it is useful to look first at the determinants of an individual firm 's demand for labour . |
| 14 | I think it 's probably best er probably good to phone first but I 'm erm worried about phone bills , |
| 15 | ‘ It might be well to strike first , before it runs out , ’ said David . |
| 16 | He came back full of the experience and made us all quite envious , but he was able to see first hand what went on at the business end of the oil industry and picked up some useful knowledge for future reference when dealing with the oil men . |
| 17 | However , it is important to look first at how to relax your mind . |
| 18 | Because some of the volunteers subsequently joined my slimming and exercise classes which I hold weekly at the Holiday Inn in Leicester , I was able to hear first hand the kind of encouraging comments which only served to confirm what I was seeing with my eyes as each week passed . |
| 19 | The family was able to buy first the supermarket in Lordship Lane — or as he calls it , ‘ Hardship Lane ’ — then a string of other stores including a wholesalers business . |
| 20 | I mean we 're all , I 'm sure , basically family with what Darwin 's theory of evolution is , and I do n't really want to labour you by reminding you of it , but I think it 's important to appreciate first of all what his problem was erm and I think that it 's fair to say that for Darwin the problem was that as a naturalist he was aware of the fact that animals and plants are adapted to a quite extraordinary degree to their particular ways of life , and indeed many of his books on orchids and earthworms and so on have a great deal to say about the details of these adaptations . |
| 21 | In some of these there is now an insistence that rural Bolivians should be able to learn first in one of the country 's three major native tongues rather than in Spanish the official language . |
| 22 | I do feel that it is extremely important to think first what your nearest and dearest would really like before you begin to knit . |
| 23 | Morley Street was beaten 16 lengths and trainer Toby Balding said : ‘ The jockeys on the fancied horses were so busy watching each other that Adrian was able to get first run and nick it . ’ |
| 24 | Each reluctant to speak first . ) |
| 25 | Davidson , who was used to him , did not take this seriously , and rightly so , for Baldwin 's next railway activity was to leave Chequers early on the Tuesday morning in order to catch the 8.55 from Wendover and be available to see first Stamfordham and then the King . |
| 26 | Strandli is desperate to play first team football again . |
| 27 | Those Coastal Command laddies are inclined to bomb first and ask questions later . ’ |
| 28 | But London offered too many hostages to fortune at a time when all foreigners were suspect , and the police were inclined to arrest first and ask questions afterwards . |
| 29 | The particular avant-garde perspective of their critique ( as of Greenberg 's ) makes it difficult to avoid first impressions of a conflation in their work of ‘ genuine art ’ with ‘ elite art ’ . |
| 30 | We are , most of us , inclined to put first editions on pedestals . |