Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] [adv] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such conditions are all too rare today ( works bought for public institutions like the Tate disappear from view for decades together ) , and it must have been a factor in the decision of some artists to give in the first place . |
| 2 | It is always dangerous when the hon. Gentleman reads only the first half of a sentence . |
| 3 | ‘ I mean , to have a German plane shot down the first time we went up . ’ |
| 4 | Although this book covers just the first half-century of the period , it is a valuable contribution to the subject , as are the further volumes in the Pelican Social History series : Britain 1800–1870 by V.A.C . |
| 5 | A feeling of warm-up is definitely in the air ; a flexing of muscles that have not been stretched in public for some time makes up the first few minutes of Faust 's extraordinary set … and then all hell breaks loose ! |
| 6 | Six candles went out the first time , the remaining three the second time . |
| 7 | We have been concerned with how one leads into the other , or how the second strikes sparks off the first . |
| 8 | In none of these cases does either the first or the second element qualify as a semantic constituent : |
| 9 | Conversely , the great revolution seemed less a first instalment of an even greater change than the last instalment of a past era : at best a splendid highly coloured memory , at worst a proof that there were no dramatic shortcuts to progress . |
| 10 | If you delay the answering of letters , of course that creates more letters chasing up the first ones and that is again where you are getting your priorities wrong , admittedly on a very small items . |
| 11 | Their rearguard began in earnest the following afternoon , after overnight rain washed out the first session . |
| 12 | It could be implied in the operation code whether the first or second store address is to receive the result , but in practice any particular computer uses always the first address , or always the second address , as the destination : for example the SS ( two address ) format of the IBM 370 range uses the first address as the destination . |
| 13 | Of the two reasons given here the first is unconvincing in the light of the Group 's proposals on the amount of learning progress that each level would encompass . |
| 14 | It says vendors took around eighteen months to bring out the first XPG3-branded products after its introduction . |
| 15 | His spectacular saves kept out the first division leaders , Manchester United , in a thrilling Rumbelow 's Cup semi-final at a packed Ayresome Park . |
| 16 | practice of using a white number on a small blue plate hung on the first window pillar . |
| 17 | The government had been thinking about ways for the administration to maintain some degree of control over the colonies since the mid-1650s ; in 1675 Charles set up the first organization to establish any record of continuity , a sign that his possessions overseas were settling down into some sort of discernible order . |
| 18 | Seven races made up the first championship and the first was run at Silverstone on Saturday , 13 May 1950 . |
| 19 | Seven races made up the first championship and that number has fluctuated over the years . |