Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two species of butterfly fish have been observed to swim slowly backwards at the first hint of trouble , making their false eyes seem even more real . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The attachment to a preferred person develops most strongly in the first year of life . |
| 4 | Larger , ‘ executive ’ cars are poorer value to buy new , because their value drops so sharply in the first few years . |
| 5 | YET he was caught completely unawares as the first recipient of the Barclay 's Eagle Trophy and a £1,000 cheque . |
| 6 | The simultaneous process of relaxing autarchy and rapprochement with the western democracies moved very slowly in the first half of the 1950s . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Within a month he knew almost as much about oven temperatures , controls , rising yeast and the correct mixture of flour to water as either of the two assistants , and as they were dealing with the same customers as Charlie was on his barrow , sales on both dropped only slightly during the first quarter . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A key point to note is that every stage of processing was able to affect the score of a reading ; thus , for example , a reading that scored more highly during the first ( semantic conflation ) phrase could later be overtaken by another which allowed easier reference resolution . |
| 11 | ‘ They played really well in the first half and their commitment was total in the second half . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Ken and Codron had got together professionally in the first place because of what he called their ‘ Grill and Cheese relationship ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Arsenal have had also apart from the first game , where I doubt coventry went looking to attack , rather than counter attack . |
| 16 | She acts particularly well in the first scene |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This makes it possible to study subtle processes of coordination : for example , when words are repeated they are generally pronounced less clearly after the first time , but only if they are being used to refer to the same thing . |
| 19 | Having played so well for the first two rounds and then the first three holes of the third , by which time he was tieing for the lead with Parry at 10 under par , Woosnam came to grief immediately after the Saturday storm . |
| 20 | A FRENCH prisoner in Nazi Germany who stayed behind the Iron Curtain after the Second World War for the love of a Ukrainian woman returned home yesterday for the first time in 52 years . |
| 21 | According to the LFS code book , temporary jobs in the first category can include jobs the termination of which " is fixed for , by example , reaching a certain date or completing an assignment , or by return of an employee who has been temporarily replaced " ( our italics ) i.e. jobs that could fit equally well into the second category whilst jobs in the second category are taken to include those with " a work contract for a specific task or a fixed period of time " ( our italics ) i.e jobs that could fit equally well into the first category . |
| 22 | The boys and their uneasy pastor were moving tidily enough into the first green enclosure which must be the frigidarium of the baths , emerging in little , bulbous groups from between the broken walls of the entrance . |
| 23 | For example , outbreeding is much more likely to occur than brother-sister incest because of the apparently innate rule that individuals raised closely together during the first six years of life are inhibited from full sexual intercourse at maturity . |
| 24 | Yet the activity of musical direction displayed in both contexts ( solo and ensemble ) accords with other evidence , brought forward now for the first time . |
| 25 | But the volume of ‘ railway milk ’ traffic grew only slowly in the first decades of railway transport . |
| 26 | Norcross found that the acquisition of a button-pressing task proceeded more rapidly with the first pair of stimuli than with the second . |
| 27 | Go straight across at the first crossroads . |
| 28 | Close pal Ince will lead the rookie side that Taylor plans to name late today for the first of three US Cup games . |
| 29 | THE best-laid schemes of Seve Ballesteros went sadly awry in the first round of the Turespana Masters here yesterday . |
| 30 | GAELIC , Doric and English will come together theatrically for the first time later this month , when tri-lingual theatre makes its debut at Broadford , Skye . |