Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [verb] [prep] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would like to first call , in alphabetical order , Robert |
| 2 | Although terms such as lentement and vite are unambiguously indicative of tempo , many other expressions commonly found in French Baroque music which may appear at first sight to have no definite connotations of tempo were commonly understood as tempo indications at the time . |
| 3 | Her last champion of any standing was now a pinch of potash in the ruins of still-smoking Ankh-Morpork , and there were hardly any pieces that she could promote to first rank . |
| 4 | We 'll put him on his way to-day , and you shall follow at first light . |
| 5 | For making up you will have to first paste the motif on to ‘ A ’ , as before , then cut in ‘ C ’ . |
| 6 | One might think at first blush that a passing reference to a person that all your readers will have heard of would serve to authenticate your story . |
| 7 | In terms of the social system , for example , one might look at first degree courses in terms of social selection and access — one of the functions identified in Figure 1.1 . |
| 8 | I said , we 'll have to first time and yet it 's all he wants and he was gon na take a day 's pay off . |
| 9 | If there 's nothing , apart from that we can move onto first aid . |
| 10 | After some preparatory work in Napier , they will learn at first hand about how organisations work , relating theory to the aims of their particular community partner organisation and how it achieves those aims . |
| 11 | This is not as much of a gamble as it may appear at first sight , there are general principles of how to cope with the system , some of which can be built into automatic safeguards and some of which can be conveyed to the operator as knowledge and instructions . |
| 12 | But as is already clear from what was said in the last chapter , the irreducibility thesis , plausible though it may appear at first sight , remains highly vulnerable to criticism and requires important additional assumptions if it is to be taken at all seriously . |
| 13 | The role of management is not as simple as it may appear at first glance . |
| 14 | It may seem at first sight that the plot of land , the fief , as it was called , was a reward for service , something granted in exchange for service , which would fall in when the vassal died and be regranted to a new vassal . |
| 15 | However , this limitation is not as serious as it may seem at first sight , since the thoughtful response may well be regarded as an adequate objective . |
| 16 | Innocuous though it may seem at first sight , this can be interpreted ( at least in the written form ) in two ways : either ‘ I dislike him ’ ( the most usual reading ) , or , in suitable contexts , ‘ It 's not true that I like him ’ ( for instance , in I do n't dislike him , but I do n't like him either ) . |
| 17 | This conclusion is not so unsatisfactory as it might appear at first sight . |
| 18 | This is not as heretical a suggestion as it might seem at first sight . |
| 19 | It might seem at first sight that this pace was unambiguously beneficial to demand ( being crucial to market growth ) and equally unambiguously detrimental to profitability ( being the only thing preventing a phenomenal profits bonanza ) . |
| 20 | He insisted that he should visit the Tiller office so that he could observe at first hand how things were run . |
| 21 | It would seem at first sight feasible to calculate this size in a way which reflected precisely the actual use for each category . |
| 22 | Cyrix Corp of Richardson , Texas says its 64-bit superscalar competitor to Intel Corp 's Pentium processor is currently in the design stage : it may sound a little optimistic , but the company claims that it will ship in first half of 1994 . |