Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to succeed in their desire to pass on their property to their children , men first introduced the rule of monogamy and thus brought about the first great change . |
| 2 | FOREIGN ministers of the Organisation of African Unity endorsed a plan yesterday to set up the first pan-African peace keeping force , despite a chronic shortage of money . |
| 3 | ’ Any audible signal probably took the form of one stroke per bar : Rousseau and Meude-Monpas agreed that French practice , in whatever context , was to tap out the down-beat only ; the Italians always tapped out the first two beats , if there were three or four beats per bar . |
| 4 | In a research note on MTM , brokers Kleinwort Benson comment that ‘ the short term future of the company is dependent on support from its bankers , which partly explains why the first half figures have been audited . ’ |
| 5 | Instead of wasting time hawking his book around the publishing houses , he simply printed up the first three chapters , complete with his own photos and illustrations , and took them out on the streets . |
| 6 | I sometimes shape just the first third of the sleeve , increasing rapidly in this section but making it possible to knit the rest of the sleeve straight . |