Example sentences of "it [vb -s] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It refers first to the widening of the scope of collective bargaining to include subjects other than pay and conditions , citing as examples : the provision of time and office services for lay trade-union representatives ; man-power planning ; job and income security ; and disclosure of information . |
| 2 | It looks first at market demand . |
| 3 | Hard disks can be huge , so DOS does n't search the whole thing for a matching name ; instead it looks first in the current directory and then in the subdirectories which are specified in the PATH command . |
| 4 | It offers little , and concedes little , to merely natural feelings : even religious feelings it will not heighten till it has first sobered them ; but at its greatest it shines with a white light hardly surpassed outside the pages of the New Testament itself . |
| 5 | Literature may only be used as " evidence " when it has first been assessed " critically " as literature . |
| 6 | What it provides is that a company proposing to allot equity securities shall not allot them to any person unless it has first offered , on the same or more favourable terms , to each person who holds relevant shares or relevant employee shares , a proportion of those equity securities which is as nearly as practicable equal to his existing proportion in nominal value of his aggregate holdings of relevant shares and relevant employee shares . |
| 7 | ‘ It starts first time , every time , ’ she says of her Citroen AX . |
| 8 | It depends first on what you 've been doing in those 29 years , whether you 're willing to get new skills if necessary , and finally , how persistent you are in your job search . |
| 9 | It passes first through high , increasingly thin pastures and then between tremendous rock-falls to the small settlement of Héas , the highest it is said anywhere in the Pyrenees , at 5,000 feet , swamped by an avalanche in 1915 and made up today only of a chapel and two or three houses . |
| 10 | As a result , when visual stimuli are flashed briefly in the left visual field it projects first to the right hemisphere whereas stimuli flashed in the right visual field project initially to the left hemisphere . |
| 11 | As a result , when visual stimuli is flashed briefly in the left visual field it projects first to the right hemisphere whereas stimuli flashed in the right visual field project initially to the left hemisphere . |
| 12 | Because it owns First New Hampshire Bank , Bank of Ireland took a bath in New England , America 's most depressed banking market . |
| 13 | So it helps first of all when you 're setting up the spreadsheet I suppose you can create one formula then copy it instead of having to edit each one individually , erm but later on you might accidentally or maybe deliberately in some cases overtype a cell and er if you have to put it back again and what you probably do is copy it from the adjacent cell and then you have to study the formula to try and understand it , and then edit it if it was n't the copyable formula and , er it may take a little time to edit it but it could take you a lot longer to understand it . |
| 14 | It follows first that there can be no measured change in productivity , irrespective of whether government productivity grows in practice , and secondly that the relative price of government services tends to rise over time . |
| 15 | Let me put this proposition to the test and see what it means first for the future economic character of the EEC and for Britain 's place within it . |
| 16 | It remains first to say that neither Marxism , nor Empirical Socialism in the Webbs ' versions of it , anticipated Keynes 's General Theory of Employment , Interest and Money . |
| 17 | Airtours is expected to reflect an improved climate for the holiday business this year when it publishes first half figures on June 28 . |
| 18 | It migrates first to unexploited areas and chomps the abundant low quality stems before moving on . |