Example sentences of "first [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it is very likely that articulating a second language interferes with the processing of the first during simultaneous interpreting . |
| 2 | Look twat … first off that mail was for a PRIVATE LEEDS MAIL LIST |
| 3 | First off two discs of Gregorian Chant from the Paris Gregorian Choir under their director Francois Polgar , one devoted to the Holy Week Liturgy ( ) , the other the Liturgy for Good Friday ( ) . |
| 4 | In view of high efficacy and safety , it is recommended that patients with corrosive strictures should be considered first for endoscopic dilatation . |
| 5 | Australia had a visible-trade deficit of $102m in March , its first for eight months . |
| 6 | Whereas , however , the Krakatoa eruption was the first for two centuries , Mt Pelee had previously erupted within the living memory of some of the older residents of St Pierre ; a mild affair in 1851 which did little apart from sprinkling a bit of ash about . |
| 7 | Last year , after a fortnight 's holiday in California , his first for two years , he complained , ‘ My wife would n't let me take any work with me ’ . |
| 8 | He was able to go to the same home for respite care , at first for two weeks in and six weeks at home , on a rota . |
| 9 | The death of his daughter clearly disrupted the concentration last season , but the hundred he took off Surrey , his first for two years , came hard on the heels of a critical four-wicket haul against Glamorgan , furnishing evidence of a redoubtable performer waving rather than drowning . |
| 10 | Alexander Kent Beyond the Reef ( Pan ) His 20th Bolitho novel and the first for two years . |
| 11 | ANOTHER FIRST FOR ONE OF THE COUNTRY 'S MOST EXCITING OPERA COMPANIES |
| 12 | In this section we briefly discuss the forms of data transfer instruction commonly found on word-oriented computers : first for whole-word transfers , then for the larger subdivisions of the word ( such as the half-word ) , and finally for multiple-word transfers . |
| 13 | Good one two ; a first for young Jason Rowbotham who 's on trial with the club . |
| 14 | Pipe Major Brian Rea 's Ballycoan Band , repeating last year 's result , were second with their World Champion Drum corps with Drum Sergeant Mark Armstrong , successfully defending their Cowal title , took first for Best Drums . |
| 15 | However , I am sure of the next Giants : Catherine Cookson 's The Maltese Angel ( Corgi ) is her second this year ; and ace vet James Herriot 's Every Living Thing ( Pan ) is his first for 10 years . |
| 16 | A by-election in March 1919 gave Labour a clear majority of two on the council ; but this was overshadowed by the election in November , the first for six years , when Labour won eight of the nine wards contested , so gaining four seats . |
| 17 | Will next month 's final with Bangor — Coleraine 's first for six years — provide the icing on the cake ? |
| 18 | This hangar was all closed up apart from one door , so he drove in in the semi-dark and reversed rapidly into what he thought was an empty corner without checking it first for parked vehicles . |
| 19 | Cordial relations between the socialist General Workers ' Union ( UGT ) and the PSOE were resumed at a meeting , the first for five years , between UGT secretary-general Nicolás Redondo and PSOE deputy secretary-general Alfonso Guerra on Sept. 30 following a longstanding rift over government economic policy [ see pp. 36359-60 for Redondo 's 1988 refusal to take up the UGT seat on the PSOE executive ] . |
| 20 | It 's a double first for proud Princess Cruises |
| 21 | Should I ask first for all non-humans to leave the room ? |
| 22 | In the end it was left to Jose-Maria Canizares , the oldest man in either side , to secure the point which assured Europe of a tie , before the final four Americans on the course won their matches to produce just the second stalemate in a series stretching back to 1927 , and the first for 20 years . |
| 23 | But Connacht , traditionally the weakest of the provinces , had a disastrous start , losing heavily to Glasgow and District and also to the humble Scottish North-Midlands , whose victory was their first for seven years . |
| 24 | He managed to go to a morning service in church again , the first for seven weeks . |
| 25 | But last year 's 1–0 win was UU 's first for seven years and this season , Jonathan Rose 's squad has been weakened by the absence of Irish international defender Paul Hollway who is on a course in Dublin . |
| 26 | Pearson will suffer in 1992 from a UK pensions contribution ( the first for some years ) and lower profits from oil services . |
| 27 | Meeting in Luxembourg which required the attendance of both the Prime Minister and myself , and in an important improvement in Anglo-Soviet relations , Andrei Gromyko , the Soviet Foreign Minister , had accepted my invitation to pay an official visit to London-his first for some years-for discussions on East-West relations and bilateral affairs . |
| 28 | KING HUSSEIN of Jordan has promised a parliament with real powers after elections on 8 November , the first for 22 years . |
| 29 | In response , King Hussein removed his prime minister and childhood friend , Zeid ar-Rifai , and accelerated the announcement of parliamentary elections to be held on 8 November , the first for 22 years . |
| 30 | The King described the election , the first for 22 years , as the start of a new phase in Jordan 's life . |