Example sentences of "[prep] first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four years after first wanting to sell , Allison Gregg and Alan Neale hope they have found a way out of their flat and their nightmare . |
| 2 | ‘ I thought we agreed no more after first 500 unless get all captives , ’ read Alton Keel 's notes , quoting Weinberger at the end of the day . |
| 3 | Attitudes towards first sexual experiences differ . |
| 4 | Fiftieth anniversary of first major Jewish deportation under Vichy régime |
| 5 | Rapid and explosive coughing followed , with the production of first one earwig and then , after further excruciating coughing and slight haemoptysis , a second . |
| 6 | His reaction was to allow a harsh laugh to escape him , until she struck him hard on the jaw ; then his laughter changed in a flash and he grabbed hold of first one fist , then two , holding them easily in one hand while be brought up his free hand and cupped her chin in it . |
| 7 | Now trick films were the sort of first visual magic that the cinema could produce and erm these , these films you would see for example a motor car disintegrate and then reassemble itself , this kind of thing , people 's clothes change , drop off and a new set of garments would come on , all this sort of thing , people 's faces would change , their environment would change , their chairs would collapse under them and rebuild themselves , this sort of thing which could be done relatively easily once you knew how to do it . |
| 8 | ‘ Instead of first round defeats it was all semi-finals or finals , ’ he says . |
| 9 | NCR Corp filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Microbilt Corp , a subsidiary of First Financial Management Corp , alleging that Microbilt willfully infringed NCR 's patent on a handwriting capture device used at retail checkouts for customer signature verification . |
| 10 | This difference is now smaller — in 1988 10.2 per cent of first marital births to women with fathers in class I and II were pre-maritally conceived , compared with 24.1 per cent in class IV and V. Ten per cent of all births in 1988 in classes I and II , and 30 per cent to classes IV and V occurred illegitimately but within informal unions ( as inferred from the joint registration of their birth ) ( see Werner 1985 ) . |
| 11 | Arrival of first Japanese troops in Cambodia |
| 12 | His advocacy of soldiers ' and workers ' councils put him wholly at variance with the Labour movement as it regrouped on a parliamentary socialist programme late in 1917 ; but it won him from Lenin and Litvinov the title of first Bolshevik consul for Britain , based in Scotland . |
| 13 | It followed two huge interest rate rises of first two per cent , then another three . |
| 14 | Election of first black mayor of Memphis |
| 15 | Each sticker shows a map of the Grand Prix circuit where Mansell beat the world to win his crown , plus the finishing line-up of first second and third , Mansell 's average speed and the winning time . |
| 16 | Each sticker shows a map of the Grand Prix circuit where Mansell beat the world to win his crown , plus the finishing line-up of first second and third , Mansell 's average speed and the winning time . |
| 17 | Another 10 weeks of practical experience , combined with courses in first aid and the applied use of equipment , will take some high-flying trainees to the rank of first assistant manager . |
| 18 | Table 12 University publishing priorities in Scottish geology ( numbers of first related papers in brackets ) |
| 19 | A senior official at BCCI raised doubts about the authenticity of certain loans , particularly those made on the security of shares in CCAH , the parent company of First American , and called into question BCCI management information given to the auditors . |
| 20 | The chairman and the president of First American , respectively former US Defence Secretary Clark M. Clifford and Robert A. Altman , resigned in August 1991 . |
| 21 | So far as I can discover , this appears to be some sort of first parliamentary double . |
| 22 | In a Newcastle study , more than 70 per cent of first illegitimate pregnancies were followed by another . |
| 23 | 2.4 It is Department of Education and Science ( DES ) policy , and is enshrined in National Curriculum documents on modern foreign languages , ‘ to encourage diversification by widening the choice of first foreign languages available ’ in schools . |
| 24 | These include the abolition of selection at 12 years ( the age of transfer from primary to secondary in Scotland ) which gave all pupils formal access to certificate courses , and the raising of the school leaving age to 16 , which prevented pupils leaving school before the stage of first public examinations . |
| 25 | Barry Swart of First National is to become chairman of Ansbacher , with present chairman Richard Fenhalls remaining as chief executive . |
| 26 | Newry only had a couple of first half chances , with big Barry Hunter cancelling out the first when he intercepted a Gary Hughes shot . |
| 27 | The 2-1 in Latvia came courtesy of first half goals from Jim Magilton and Gerry Taggart . |
| 28 | On the other hand , after a period of some four to five years ' ( and after only two to three years of first speaking words ) exposure to the language of those around them , children seem to have mastered the underlying rule system which enables them to produce an infinite variety of relatively well-formed , complex sentences . |
| 29 | Except in most Western Hemisphere and in some other countries , the mortality of first born infants uniformly exceeds that of births up to the 4–6 orders , and in the majority of countries , the pattern is one of declining infant mortality from first through second and third order births . |
| 30 | The infant mortality of first born children seems to be very high in most communities , if they were born to mothers less than 20 years old . |