Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the poets had said that first you fell in love with your eyes , then your mind , then your emotions . |
| 2 | Another form of argument to be considered involves analysis of what else was happening at the time a text was written and first published . |
| 3 | It was made and first broadcast 25 years ago starring Patrick McGoohan in the title role and as Executive Producer . |
| 4 | Looking at this second set , in 82 cases , the researcher is named as first author ( 54% ) , whilst in 70 cases , the supervisor is the first author ( 46% ) . |
| 5 | Looking at this second set , in 82 cases , the researcher is named as first author ( 54% ) , whilst in 70 cases , the supervisor is the first author ( 46% ) . |
| 6 | ‘ What the deuce , ’ Robert had said when first asked . |
| 7 | The rewriting mentioned in 5 becomes most real when writing is seen as first draft , that is , when the writer intends to rework it later . |
| 8 | When radiocarbon dating was developed and first used in the late 1940s and 1950s , the complexities of the technique were not fully appreciated . |
| 9 | Is it not ironic that this great technical achievement in the field of road transport was developed and first made practical by ‘ Wolverton Railway Works ’ ? |
| 10 | Their suggestion that pulsed dye laser treatment should be offered as first line treatment for port wine stain malformations whenever possible , however , is controversial with respect to adult patients and ignores the complex nature of these lesions and their treatment with lasers . |
| 11 | Hydrochlorothiazide is a longstanding antihypertensive drug used as first line treatment in essential hypertension and has also been used safely in normotensive subjects with idiopathic hypercalciuria . |
| 12 | The STA delegate meeting of 1905 passed a resolution urging branches to ban any new women entrants to the trade , and over the next year or so Edinburgh became increasingly isolated as first Aberdeen , then Dundee and Perth succeeded in closing the trade to new women recruits ( there were far fewer women compositors in these towns anyway ) . |
| 13 | Li , who denied the charges and said that he would appeal against the conviction , had been arrested and first charged in January 1988 [ see pp. 35742 ; 36764 ] . |
| 14 | He sees a specialist tomorrow but the club are optimistic that he is not as badly hurt as first feared . |
| 15 | ‘ You had n't arrived when first I came , ’ he went on , ‘ so I went out and had a coffee , and when I came back your assistant told me you were with Naylor . ’ |
| 16 | In 1961 , Arnold Claisse became President , a post he held most successfully for 10 years , during which the niggles about the bondholding autocracy increased and first surfaced formally at the 1970 Annual General Meeting . |
| 17 | This arrangement came about when Father Kevin Daley was appointed as first OP , the chaplaincy formerly being manned by the cathedral . |
| 18 | While second homes consist merely of properties no longer wanted as first homes they cause relatively few problems ; but when they grow beyond this , political , social , economic and environmental problems arise . |
| 19 | The room erupted as first Harbury and then Riley stamped into the editor 's office . |
| 20 | This is where all bad accidents come first and have their clothes removed and first transfusions . |
| 21 | As a result three Census Wards were identified as first order target Wards for a marketing exercise , and seven additional Wards as second order target Wards . |
| 22 | The relevant situation of utterance can therefore be identified as the historical period of the First World War , in which the poem was actually composed and first received by its contemporary readers . |
| 23 | It had been synthesized and first tested in animals about 12 years earlier , and rejected , or ignored , twice . |
| 24 | In October 1978 Cleveland County Council earmarked substantial additional funding for the Polytechnic , the post of Director was advertised but first time round was not filled when interviews took place in April 1979 ( with Lord Boyle , Vice-Chancellor of Leeds University , and Professor Maurice Kogan of Brunel University among the advisers for the appointment ) . |
| 25 | Some world lost when first he dived , that he can not come at since , |
| 26 | In 1889 he was elected as first county councillor for Dursley , a position he held for thirty years and which was followed by nine years as county alderman . |
| 27 | The new Validated Courses Section has now been established and first among its priorities is the appointment and training of External Course Assessors for running the Pilot Courses in 1988–89 . |
| 28 | Even so , one could guess that his wars against the Poles ( peace was made in 1018 ) led to coldness with Boleslav 's nephew , and that Cnut 's attitude to the Germans improved when first Henry and then Boleslav ( 1025 ) died . |