Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [prep] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , they were also quite pricey , as they could well afford to be , so I designed my own after a first disaster with one of the Ken Smith ledger rods . |
| 2 | The amount of the tax rebate is at its highest during the last quarter of the tax year and it is obviously at its lowest during the first quarter . |
| 3 | It was Barbara Castle who remarked , when Mrs Thatcher became leader of the Conservatives in 1975 , that power had made her pretty for the first time . |
| 4 | Young people striking out on their own for the first time frequently do not have transport and colleges or universities are not always situated in city centres . |
| 5 | Although they 're among the poorest people in the community , many feel better off than they 've ever been — they 've got money , time and friends of their own for the first time . |
| 6 | Married students are therefore advised to come to Edinburgh on their own in the first instance and to send for their families only when they have secured suitable accommodation . |
| 7 | For , as Raymond Briggs once said , in Maus the cartoon book holds its own for the first time against all-comers as a literary medium . |
| 8 | Tallis was on her own for the first time in her eight years or so in this unimaginable land . |
| 9 | The row began after father and baby were evicted from a council bed and breakfast — on the grounds Steve made himself homeless in the first place . |
| 10 | I could have told you that in the first place . |
| 11 | First decide on just two matches that appear to have outstanding draw chances and mark them X in the first column of the Treble Chance ( to the right of the fixtures ) . |
| 12 | He 'd done something dishonest for the first time in his business life , and it sat uneasily on his conscience . |
| 13 | Lindemann , who was third in the 1989 World Cup Final , also has Abound qualified here , and rode this one clear in the first warm-up , and then withdrew him . |
| 14 | USL hopes to have something ready by the first quarter of next year . |
| 15 | The troubles of the spirit are not always translated into the grosser medium of the flesh , but if I could not make this transfer with Miller then there would be no point in making him ill in the first place . |
| 16 | Dickie bored him all through the first course with stories of the Navy in the First World War , and all through the second course with stories of the Navy in the Second World War , and then he got up and said , ‘ I 've got to go now to a meeting of the Chiefs of Staff , but the Prime Minister will keep you amused . ' ’ |
| 17 | However , this effect may not last , and long-term follow-up is useful to ensure that the patient does not lapse into those unhealthy ways which made him unwell in the first place . |
| 18 | This alternative process made it possible for the first time to obtain 1- tert -alkyl , 1-cycloalkyl , 1-aryl , 1-heteroaryl and 1-aminoquinolone and azaquinolonecarboxylic acid derivatives by combined acylation and arylation ( aracylation ) of enamines and enhydrazines with o -halo-(het)aroyl halides . |
| 19 | The course of events after 1931 clearly revealed the inadequacy of pure aspiration as the basis for a science of international politics , and made it possible for the first time to embark on serious critical and analytical thought about international problems . |
| 20 | Sufficient data stretching back to the mid-sixteenth century have now been assembled to make it possible for the first time to study short-term as well as long-term characteristics of demographic behaviour at the micro level . |
| 21 | The key point was that the bases paired , making it possible for the first time to seem how a chemical entity might be able to store and copy information . |
| 22 | We allow ourselves a little bit more time to get the design right cos the reason we got it wrong in the first place was because it was a quick spend project and nobody er had time to do it properly . |
| 23 | However , Ada had made it clear at the first round of talks that the commission had no power to negotiate changes , which had to be approved by referendum . |
| 24 | The therapist should prepare the patient for termination by making it clear from the first interview that a relatively short period of treatment is planned . |
| 25 | The first year of a king ran from the day of his accession in one calendar year to the eve of the anniversary of that accession in the following , his second from the first anniversary of his accession to the eve of his second , and so on . |
| 26 | Once again , now it does n't matter which way round you start , you can start left over right or right over left , but the second time you do it opposite to the first time , so the first time I put the left one over first and the right one over that and then tuck it through , just like tying a shoe lace really , okay ? |
| 27 | So I wished I 'd done it all in the first place , now I 've got to do it . |
| 28 | Dick Hansen on a cold day in February 1992 , flying his P-40 for the first time . |
| 29 | The slab side of the executive transporter loomed like a cliff out of the white fog , getting larger by the second as the shock wave from the explosions which had set it adrift in the first place propelled it nearer and nearer the executive transporter bay wall . |
| 30 | The boy was going to the boxroom and was clearly excited at possessing a room of his own for the first time . |