Example sentences of "it have first " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Literature may only be used as " evidence " when it has first been assessed " critically " as literature . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The idea of siphoning the matured learning of the Universities to the industrial and agricultural areas is as fresh and germane as if it had first been thought of last night . |
| 5 | On the same day that he received Palmerston 's letter , he replied that he had not intended to say that Gothic was re-established as the leading English architecture of the day , but rather its history and origin made a strong case for its revival in those countries where it had first flourished . |
| 6 | He was reminded of something he had read somewhere : that it was seldom wise to return to any former haunt hoping to recapture the same pleasure it had first given , because it was sure to be different and disappointing . |
| 7 | This was an old carriage , but still well capable of performing the task set for it when it had first joined the rolling-stock in the year that Holly had been born . |
| 8 | We also told him that , as a matter of policy , regardless of the legal situation , we certainly would n't be prepared to offer the painting for sale unless it had first been offered to the museum to see whether it would be possible for them to re-acquire it . |
| 9 | It had first opened in December 1948 , sporting leopard-skin covered stools and a bamboo-festooned bar . |
| 10 | The Court had a discretion on a reference by the Attorney-General ; it had first to decide whether the sentence was too lenient , and then whether it was unduly lenient . |
| 11 | It had first been established in 1979 , and was renewed for three years in 1989. * Evidence has emerged of continued " pirate whaling " in the south Atlantic . |