Example sentences of "in [verb] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | we got four types of reaction using first H C L okay so write that in using first H C L then H N O three then H two S O four . |
| 2 | Everything brought or sent in has first to go through ‘ property ’ and spend a few days ( which usually become weeks ) there before you eventually get it . |
| 3 | There has been an advantage in looking first at an exercise because its very ‘ task ’ orientation often makes the structure explicit , whereas in group drama one has often to look for it . |
| 4 | It is for this reason that the CNAA , in approving first degree courses , whose numbers have expanded two-fold since 1974 , has been at pains to devise what it regards as more intellectually vigorous programmes than was the case with the Dip.AD . |
| 5 | Lend Lease , by-passing the Neutrality Laws , became vital in aiding first Britain , and later the Soviet Union , in their resistance to Hitler . |
| 6 | In 1878 The Royal Agricultural Society reported in their journal : ‘ This farm , in fact , has all the requisites of a prize farm , and we had therefore very great pleasure in awarding First Prize ( in all England ) to Mr Long who will , we feel certain , consider it a recognition of the untiring industry shown by himself and his wife in the management of this pretty little farm … the arable land is cultivated like a garden , being wonderfully free from weeds . |
| 7 | And she thought , quite calmly : this is n't good enough for me , I shall get further if I 'm pulled , I ca n't waste time in going first . |
| 8 | Cunninghame Graham was , however , correct in observing that the expedition against the Awok ‘ really called for greater nerve than that against the Tulas , which ended in a fight ’ ; and this , as Hastings himself seemed to recognize in recalling first and foremost his ‘ colossal cheek ’ , was surely the point of it all . |
| 9 | For the time being , the Dutch succeeded in retaining first place in Asian and African trade and were able to retain what was perhaps the largest share in the transit traffic to Spanish America . |
| 10 | A few weeks earlier , on 10 April 1946 , a circular from General Valluy , at that time d'Argenlieu 's deputy in Saigon , had raised the question of a purely military operation ‘ in the scenario of a coup d'état' ; and for both sides there seemed to be obvious advantages in striking first . |