Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun sg] [verb] first [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This he had done , according to the story , by finding the weight of water displaced first by the crown and then by an equal weight of pure gold , the measurement being that of weighing the water displaced from a full bowl . |
| 2 | For example , where disrupters of a public meeting are themselves behaving unreasonably , and possibly illegally , there should be some sort of obligation to proceed first against the disrupters rather than the speakers , if that can be done . |
| 3 | This reading of silences depends on the argument that the companionate ideal of marriage developed first among the privileged classes , and that in the eighteenth century lower class women could expect little affection in marriage . |
| 4 | In Europe the rate of accumulation peaked first in the early 1960s , then a decade later at a slightly lower level . |
| 5 | 10 Burden of proof Dealing first with the question of reasonableness as between the parties it is now accepted that the burden of proof falls on the party seeking to enforce the restraint . |