Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is perhaps easier to work with the Germans , whom Britain fought so bitterly in the first half of this century , than with the French or the Italians , whose active roles in the Second World War were prematurely curtailed . |
| 2 | The attachment to a preferred person develops most strongly in the first year of life . |
| 3 | Larger , ‘ executive ’ cars are poorer value to buy new , because their value drops so sharply in the first few years . |
| 4 | The simultaneous process of relaxing autarchy and rapprochement with the western democracies moved very slowly in the first half of the 1950s . |
| 5 | But perhaps the most punishing — and undeserved — losses had been suffered by von Zwehl 's VII Reserve Corps , which had done so brilliantly in the first days of the battle . |
| 6 | What is interesting about this is that they clearly do not know the history of the form ; they are unaware that the rule was made so rigidly in the first place to suit the whims of anti-feminists . |
| 7 | Golding 's Lord of the Flies ( 1954 ) is in the third person , though like Defoe 's most famous novel it is about an island marooning ; but Rites of Passage ( 1980 ) — the first of the Tarpaulin trilogy — is a memoir-novel , composed not just in the first person but in a pastiche of the English of the Napoleonic wars , especially in its sea-terms — a sort of ‘ sub-Jane Austen language ’ , as he has breezily put it . |
| 8 | ‘ They played really well in the first half and their commitment was total in the second half . |
| 9 | ‘ My main aim will be to stay in the team and help Ipswich finish high up in the First Division . ’ |
| 10 | Coton twice saved almost miraculously in the first half when both Pearson and Hirst were frustrated by the woodwork as Wednesday 's mixture of pace , strength and rapid teamwork overwhelmed the visitors . |
| 11 | Ken and Codron had got together professionally in the first place because of what he called their ‘ Grill and Cheese relationship ’ . |
| 12 | The gulf between Hitler 's immense popularity and the generally low standing of the Party had nevertheless if anything widened still further in the first wartime years . |
| 13 | " I was thinking how little I know of you , and wondering how and why you turned up here in the first place . " |
| 14 | She acts particularly well in the first scene |
| 15 | This contrasts with Oxfordshire , which fared very well in the first period and very badly in the next two , and with Somerset , which had the smallest increase in the first period , followed by among the largest in each of the next two years . |
| 16 | But what intrigues us even more is how the hell it got up there in the first place . |
| 17 | But when we tol When we told us they said Oh they 'd have come down to match the nearest competitor , and we thought oh why did he quote up there in the first place then . |
| 18 | Team one they want to put out more in the first division and , I could not be party to that team one and it was an atrocity to use such terminology . |
| 19 | was laid out late in the first century , but its continuation southwards was not constructed until the mid third century . |
| 20 | But the volume of ‘ railway milk ’ traffic grew only slowly in the first decades of railway transport . |
| 21 | The various government schemes designed to assist labour transfers ( Johnson and Salt , 1980 ) have traditionally made an extremely limited contribution to migration and were cut back further in the first half of the 1980s . |
| 22 | THE best-laid schemes of Seve Ballesteros went sadly awry in the first round of the Turespana Masters here yesterday . |
| 23 | well why did she come and live down here in the first place ? |
| 24 | Within Outer London , the experience of Bromley and of Newham are almost mirror images : Bromley did relatively badly in the first and third periods and well in the second , while Newham gained in the first and third periods , but had the smallest increase in the second . |
| 25 | But then again , you could n't have predicted they 'd get this far in the first place . |
| 26 | The authors of the remarkable study quoted so extensively in the first part of this chapter themselves point out that |
| 27 | They seemed to be settling in well in the first two days . |