Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | News of Pantisocracy had reached Cambridge before him , where at first it was the cause of disbelieving mirth . |
| 2 | Some of these are particularly striking because they occur in circumstances where at first sight one would expect nothing interesting to happen . |
| 3 | See I , mind you whenever I 'm late you see I can get on it for twenty pence except for first thing in morning . |
| 4 | The signing was unorthodox , many of the gestures modified and difficult to read ; there was no fingerspelling at all other than of first letters of names . |
| 5 | Although at first sight , the great abundance of bogs and freshwater lochs on the Outer Hebrides suggests an abundance of suitable sites for palaeoecological studies , on closer examination several are unsuitable for detailed investigation . |
| 6 | I was using a hand-pump , and then an electric pump to stimulate my milk supply , although at first I was too distressed and unmotivated to do it as often as necessary and consequently did n't produce anything when I did pump . |
| 7 | The Renaissance State consisted , at bottom , of an ever-expanding bureaucracy which , although at first a working bureaucracy , had by the end of the sixteenth century become a parasitic bureaucracy ; and this ever expanding bureaucracy was sustained on an equally expanding margin of ‘ waste ’ : ‘ waste ’ which lay between the taxes imposed on the subjects and the revenue collected by the Crown . |
| 8 | Although at first mainly farmers , by the nineteenth century many more were substantial tradesmen , manufacturers , or professional men , suffering , like the Birmingham banker Samuel Tertius Galton , from ‘ commercial weariness ’ . |
| 9 | Although at first sight the quotations reproduced above may seem to have said all that needs to be said , it will be worthwhile trying to specify exactly the mechanisms by which associative mediation theory generates the effects that need to be explained . |
| 10 | The Romans tended to be suspicious of novelty , and the word ‘ novus ’ had for them a sinister ring , although their memory of the past reminded them that change had often come about , although at first resisted . |
| 11 | Although at first , women had to wear white dustcoats and men 's hats , new uniforms were eventually provided which suited the female figure . |
| 12 | They met between George 's window and the open door at the end of the car and although at first they looked moderately at peace with each other , the encounter deteriorated rapidly . |
| 13 | But although at first the converse might appear to be true , I believe it 's actually more difficult ( and therefore expensive ) to assemble a worthwhile bass that functions with pleasing efficiency — particularly in this cost-conscious area . |
| 14 | Although at first TANU was at a disadvantage in not having its own daily paper , it probably benefited from the publicity , albeit negative , given by the Government press . |
| 15 | Although at first it was hard to connect this short , shy woman with her six feet-five and 16-stone son , the likeness between the two soon became clear . |
| 16 | ALAN CLARK , former trade minister , saved Henderson from jail by admitting Government knew of sanctions busting although at first he denied approval was given . |
| 17 | The three authors , all former Red Guards ( Li Yi Zhe was their collective pen name ) had been arrested for expressing their radical views in ‘ On Socialist Democracy and the Legal System ’ , although at first Deng Xiaoping and Zhao Ziyang had suggested that they supported the main ideas of the poster . |
| 18 | Although at first it may prove excitable and run off around the garden , the puppy should soon return to you . |
| 19 | Although at first sight , therefore , it seems that there was a strong age-related gradient in the overall net income of elderly people , the effect was largely accounted for by the dissolution of married-couple households when husbands died , leaving widows significantly worse off not only than married couples , but also than men living on their own . |
| 20 | Italy was to join the war on the Allied side on 23 May 1915 , although at first her declaration of hostilities specified Austria-Hungary only . |
| 21 | Although at first sight the Bull-Leaping Fresco found in the cellars of the Labyrinth 's East Wing seems in its present reconstruction to show , on the left , a bull-leaper waiting to be hoisted into the air , the figure is in fact a bull-grappler and represents a group of two , three or four grapplers whose job it was to pad the horns , keep the bull 's head low and the rest of its body still during the leap . |
| 22 | On this occasion , he did agree to make a speech on stage after the performance , although at first Sherek " thought he was not going to say anything at all , because he just stood there trying to see his wife 's face in the audience " . |
| 23 | Although at first united , Nut and Geb were then separated by their father for ever , but their initial union gave rise to the births of their four children , two sons , Osiris and Seth , and two daughters , Isis and Nephthys . |
| 24 | Although at first sight straightforward , there is a curious element of circularity in this definition . |
| 25 | He concludes : ‘ So although at first it is also natural for civilized people to condemn out of hand what I had just witnessed as disgraceful heathen bestiality , they , too , if they were honest might come to feel it was at least partly redeemed by the genuine religious conviction on which it is based . ’ |
| 26 | She is more cheered , although at first puzzled , by the fact that as she works the excess of Teint Naturel on her skin , her appearance begins to improve . |
| 27 | A st'lyan ate up the ground like no horse he had ever encountered , and although at first he had estimated that a verst , the basic unit of Tarvarian distance , was equivalent to about a kilometre , now he realised that it was probably more than twice that . |
| 28 | They intrigued him immeasurably , almost as if they were rare and unusual animals or birds , although at first he was often too shy to speak in their company . |
| 29 | Although at first sight these three points apply only to overall policy development , in practice they apply at all levels , including individual branch development . |
| 30 | She was used to driving the luxurious Saab by this time , although at first the responsibility had unnerved her considerably . |