Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] first [noun] " in BNC.

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1 If the essential qualities needed for reinventing health care under Mr Clinton are three — willingness to go back to first principles , faith in political action , and above all , a superhuman command of detail — then Mr Magaziner has spent his whole life in training for his current job .
2 MIPS BUSINESS DRIES UP IN FIRST QUARTER
3 Newmark ( 1966 ) claims that this causes the learners to fall back on first language rules , i.e. they use the syntax of the first to speak the second .
4 INTEL P5 MICROPROCESSOR PUT BACK TO FIRST QUARTER 1993
5 ‘ So few people dress up for first nights these days … ’
6 The researchers went back to first principles by making a detailed mechanical analysis of Diatryma 's head .
7 This enables the Bureau to find out at first hand how authorities are tackling the issue and what they need form the centre .
8 Rogers and Lambert took off at first light to see what was happening .
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