Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [conj] [verb] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the event , wiser counsels prevailed ; the proposals that had emerged by the summer of 1989 from the subject working parties and the National Curriculum Council were far from being the national syllabuses that had at first seemed likely . |
| 2 | Though impulsive in some ways , she was an ordinary , practical girl who had never really believed in grand passion or love at first sight . |
| 3 | The railway company always intended to lease the Euston as a first-class hotel but tried at first to run the Victoria itself . |
| 4 | This confirmed an earlier decision : as a general principle , we would not try to collect only those trees that seemed at first sight to be superior . |
| 5 | There was a special edge to this match because they had beaten us easily in each of our past five encounters and had at first declined a fixture this year . |
| 6 | The cause — they did n't like the Blue Actinic tubes that came on first before the main lighting . |
| 7 | Her assessment of me changed from one of total hostility to a slightly puzzled statement that my experience with these doctors , in her own words ‘ may prove , after all , not to have been a bad thing for this peculiar chap — half high principle and half unashamed pragmatism — to have been brought into personal dealings with this autocratic profession and to experience at first hand the kind of behaviour that has been driving Ministers of Health to despair for years ’ . |
| 8 | In the forests of the Mesozoic there were large numbers of trees and shrubby plants that looked at first glance like palm trees , with leafless stems crowned with bouquets of stiff , large leaves , deeply divided into long , unbranched leaflets . |
| 9 | The new structure as outlined by First Deputy Prime Minister with responsibility for management of the economy , Vladimir Shumeiko , who was in charge of the reorganization , comprised a three-tier system . |
| 10 | There are among honey bees three reported examples that appear at first glance to qualify as cognitive trial-and-error . |