Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [adv] [verb] [art] first " in BNC.
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1 | so I 'm actually taking the first three weeks and you 're taking the last |
2 | ‘ I was actually remembering the first part ! |
3 | She laughed as she watched the dove soar above the chestnut trees , which were already showing the first flecks of green . |
4 | If carried , which is rare , the member has leave to present his Bill which is then read a first time in the usual way . |
5 | The addition of this weakling to the family of Test nations will seen them merely tolerated as non-profitable visitors , lower on the scale even than Sri Lanka , who are still awaiting a first invitation to play West Indies after 10 years of Test status . |
6 | What might have been first visualised as a basic low cost word processor might have transformed into a full blown all bells and whistles application that has spreadsheets and databases built in , yet , if you 're still using the first release , you could be losing out . |
7 | That summer , George Ball , the master ( who was later to become the first hospital secretary of Bedford General Hospital ) joined the R.A.F. A special committee met in order to appoint a temporary master , and George 's father , Walter Mills Ball , a retired poor-law officer , offered to fill his place while his son was serving . |
8 | ‘ But we will have the first National Hunt racing on all-weather anywhere in the world at our first meeting ( Lingfield 's opening card is all Flat ) and we are also staging the first trials at racing pace on the new surface ( they take place on Sunday ) . ’ |
9 | We are now seeing the first signs of recovery and all forecasters expect to see our economy growing again in the coming year . |
10 | So we 're just rearranging the first expression , okay , and getting this one right so now we 've got er a decision rule to obtain a , farmers will form their expectation of prices say next year , in T right , on the basis of last year 's price , last year 's actual price and last year 's , the expectation of last year 's actual price okay . |
11 | There was no stopping the first , but the second ; well it was more to do with bad defence , than good attack . |
12 | In Europe , performance in France and Spain remains unsatisfactory , although it is now showing the first signs of improvement . |
13 | Sometimes it 's as if he 's constantly rejecting the first idea that comes into his mind , and plays the second instead . |
14 | Apple Computer Inc says it is still on target for mid-1994 launch of its first RISC-based Macintosh after IBM Corp announced that it was now shipping the first PowerPC chips to Apple . |
15 | He was also to obtain the first formal recognition from the pope of the right of the crown to nominate holders of major benefices , before the kings of either France or Spain ; and he indulged grandiose dreams of annexing continental territories . |
16 | The international system not only has a major division between communist and capitalist states but also deeper cultural divisions between what are usually termed the First and Third worlds . |