Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We will let the new legislation settle down for a year or so first , ’ he said . |
| 2 | It was n't , I ca n't think whether it was foggy or not first thing , it was a little bit . |
| 3 | Houlston et al estimate the lifetime risk of developing colorectal cancer as 1 in 10 where the proband is aged under 45 at diagnosis , and 1 in 6 where two or more first degree relatives are affected . |
| 4 | The Qumran Psalms Scroll has proved that in the second or even first century B.C. the collection of the Psalms was still open to modifications . |
| 5 | I think it should be remembered that that public support actually was against a requirement of one thousand nine hundred dwellings , which is not quite the proposal being put forward by the County at the moment , but it is clear that there seems to me n not to be any public or great strength of public objection to the sort of proposals that are now before you in this enquiry , and it also seems to me that the reasons behind erm that that public support are essentially because it meets the first requirement of paragraph P P G thirty three , that the alternative expansion of existing towns or villages will represent a less satisfactory method of providing land for new housing that is needed , I think that is the essence of the public support , and so first of I think you can say that that 's that means that first criteria , and certainly it seems to meet the second automatically because it an expression of public preference . |
| 6 | Moreover , it was used in the Hung Mao manner-in that curiously inverted way of theirs , where the family name was last and not first . |
| 7 | no we 're having Home and Away first |
| 8 | ‘ Ecstasy hinted at how powerful the mind could be , and once first gear was mastered there was a second gear , and a third . |
| 9 | George Healey was a remarkable man who devoted his whole adult life to the cause of deaf people , both in Liverpool and nationally first through the N.D.D.S. and thence the B.D.D.A. He was born in Gateacre , Liverpool and lost his hearing at the age of three months as a result of brain fever following a fall from the arms of his nurse , although his deafness was not discovered until he was two years old . |
| 10 | Philip Miller much respected Hugh Percy ( 1715–1786 ) the second Earl , and later first Duke , of Northumberland , to whom he dedicated the sixth , seventh and eighth editions of the Dictionary , referring to many improvements to his estates and particularly to his plantations in ‘ a Country almost destitute of Timber ’ . |
| 11 | On Conference Sunday , Mr England was welcomed to his home church by his former neighbour , Mr R J Magowan , then Chairman of the Urban District Council and later first Mayor of Portadown . |
| 12 | A.K. Chesterton , an important member of the leadership of the BUF and later first chairman of the Directorate of the National Front , was another for whom the war had profound significance . |
| 13 | Eclipsed by more dynamic colleagues , such as Anthony Ashley Cooper ( first Baron Ashley and later first Earl of Shaftesbury ) , Sir Thomas Clifford ( later first Baron Clifford of Chudleigh ) , and Sir William Coventry [ qq.v . ] , |
| 14 | All the interior walls were of matchboard and both first floor rooms had sizeable under-stairs cupboards . |
| 15 | Quality service is what sets us aside and under-pins the company 's place among the FTSE top 100 British companies , the second best company in Europe in a Financial Times survey , the eleventh most admired company in the UK according to the Economist , and now first place in the Business Enterprise Award of the Confederation of British Industries , as Company of The Year . |
| 16 | Field Marshal Montgomery 's trophy sweep includes first in British , first in European , first in Scottish , first in World and now first in Cowal , leaving only the British Championship to clinch . |
| 17 | A scrappy and try-less first half left the scores level at 3-3 , but Llanelli took the lead eight minutes into the second half after Arwel Parry , the Pontypool full-back , made a complete hash of a restart from the 22 . |
| 18 | Just around the corner to the right and then first right and — ‘ |
| 19 | Hurrying on , I thought of Sister Cas. 's remarks , and then first of Violet in Hope . |
| 20 | When there was a sense of unrest and what not , and then first one ship then the other , starts shuddering but before that happened we saw Germans coming off in the rafts and that . |
| 21 | We 're the ones that have said to Jehovah I am dedicating my life to you , I am going to do this , do that and the other and it 's up to us as to whether we do it , so it requires effort , first , five , six , also says let us stay awake , keep our senses first Peter , five , eight keep your senses , be watchful and then first Corinthians , ten , twelve which I think the song was based on let him think that he is standing , beware , beware , beware that he does not fall , if you think things are going along nicely and you 're in a comfortable little corner , a little niche in the truth , and it 's just how you like it , and it 's just the way you want it to be and there 's the time we need to be aware because there 's an opening for Satan to get into to make us fall . |
| 22 | Despite some notorious examples of TNCs abandoning their Third World ( and sometimes First World ) workers without legal compensation , there is no evidence to suggest that TNC plants inside or outside of zones are statistically any more likely to close down than domestic companies . |
| 23 | ‘ We should address ourselves to those faculties in a child 's mind , which are first awakened by nature , and consequently first admit of cultivation , that is to say , the memory and the imagination . ’ |
| 24 | Sugar leaped forward to dominate the market and to transform life socially and racially first in Barbados and then in the other English West Indian islands . |
| 25 | up our road and very first house , number one , he had a big bit of garden |
| 26 | Famous , but not first |
| 27 | No , there were n't , Second World War yeah , but not First World War . |
| 28 | Done this in awful haste — forgive if egg-sucking but just first speedy thoughts to turn round a.s.a.p . |
| 29 | But then first day I was with them . |
| 30 | This is purported to walk the grave yard at certain times of the year , but firm evidence of this I 've not been able to find ; you always hear that someone else has seen it but never first hand . |