Example sentences of "for [verb] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly Ambassador Bruce 's reporting from Paris appears to have been impartial ; while the Far Eastern memorandum took for granted first that those in command of the so-called Vietnamese Democratic Republic were men trained in the methods and doctrines of international communism ; secondly , that should they succeed , a pattern of foreign totalitarianism would be clamped upon Vietnam under which all liberties , national and personal , would be lost and thirdly , that the paramount question in Indo-China was whether the country was to be saved from communist control : all other issues were irrelevant . |
| 2 | The user can opt to have the Listing file ‘ Printed ’ or ‘ Deleted ’ , or both , once it has been prepared ; note that if these options are chosen the output file will be queued for printing first and , if required , deleted afterwards . |
| 3 | He did rather acquire a reputation for speaking first and thinking later , did n't he ? |
| 4 | Congratulations to Barry White , area sales manager in the North East , for coming first in the Cayton Bay Surfing Challenge . |
| 5 | For taking first place in Category 1 , the Cancer Relief Macmillan Fund received a prize of £1,000 . |
| 6 | NOS. 2 and 3 were sent for repainting first and they carried the numbers 346 and 347 in small plain gold figures . |