Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb -s] [adv] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is always dangerous when the hon. Gentleman reads only the first half of a sentence . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ! |
| 4 | We have been concerned with how one leads into the other , or how the second strikes sparks off the first . |
| 5 | In none of these cases does either the first or the second element qualify as a semantic constituent : |
| 6 | 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 . |