Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patients were then treated with 120 mg tripotassium dicitratobismuthate ( DeNol , Brocades , Weybridge , Surrey , UK ) four times daily for one month , 400 mg metronidazole three times daily , and 500 mg tetracycline four times daily taken concurrently for the first two weeks of treatment . |
| 2 | There are two other necessary ingredients , which will normally arise automatically from the first ingredient , self-replication itself . |
| 3 | If a house is not built soundly in the first place , and if it is not kept in good repair , it will fail when put to the test . |
| 4 | The Committee normally meets fortnightly for the first eight weeks each term ( weeks 2 , 4 , 6 , 8 ) and may meet on a fifth occasion ( in week 10 ) . |
| 5 | Courier , who had not played well during the first two sets , said he received a pep talk from Agassi that really picked up his spirits . |
| 6 | It was something she had been determined not to do right from the first , and yet here she was , waiting for Alain Lemarchand , butterflies in her stomach threatening to make her feel sick . |
| 7 | Weak clients , i.e. those lacking confidence , may not perform well at the first meeting but normally go through a sharp learning curve . |
| 8 | If the second measurement did not tally exactly with the first , it meant that there was something wrong with the patient 's stomach . |
| 9 | POMEROY social security office in Tyrone will not open today for the first scheduled signing-on since the IRA attack on a fraud squad investigator a fortnight ago . |
| 10 | I wanted to just pop away over the first few for him to get his confidence . |
| 11 | But she had a sudden change of heart and the pair were yesterday perched together for the first time . |
| 12 | However the continuation of active addictive disease is even more boring and oppressive and the initial enthusiasm usually matures gradually within the first year of recovery . |
| 13 | THE extraordinary thing about Laura Ashley is not that it has been dragged back from the financial brink ; it is that it was ever pushed there in the first place . |
| 14 | The White Paper also recognized publicly for the first time a stark fact that was becoming increasingly obvious : that with the steep decline in the birth rate the number of teachers in training would have to be sharply reduced to avoid a gross overproduction of teachers . |
| 15 | I nearly crashed twice in the first lap . |
| 16 | The play tells the story of two young men who were separated by class and culture as children , who for different reasons end up serving together in the First World War . |
| 17 | Every teacher probably derives more from the first teacher with whom he works than any other and I have no doubt in my mind that Basil was by far the most influential person in my first years as a teacher . |
| 18 | Both scored highly in the first round but the French had done so well in the next round with three landing on the line , that only the RAF stood a chance of catching them . |
| 19 | erm towards the end of the century it was just about possible for middle class girls , or a few middle class girls to get a reasonable academic education at one of the G P D S schools — we 've got one in Hove , you know the girls ' public day school trust foundations — but only very few went there and got what would be equivalent now to a kind of secondary education and a very , very , very , very tiny minority of those girls could go on to university if they faced an enormous amount of opposition when they got there and also to get there in the first place , but for most girls there was only a basic elementary education , which increasingly stressed the sort of domestic side of a girl 's vocation . |
| 20 | Old enemies now competing together at the first ever international games for disabled ex-servicemen . |
| 21 | It does n't matter where he/she finishes , but whether the coach is only asking the eight-year-olds to spring 50m or trying to get all the senior team to really race hard over the first 1500m , he or she must be seen to experience it too or the children simply wo n't believe the coach can know what he/she is talking about . |
| 22 | And all I could do at this terrible invasion was to rise and stand mutely , with my hands by my sides , staring up at this tremendous being — whom I now saw clearly for the first time . |
| 23 | ‘ Brian Gayle did n't defend well for the first goal and Gage did a Val Parnell act in the middle of the park to set up the lad for his second . ’ |
| 24 | So it 's not as , it , it 's erm uniformly spread everywhere in the first place , it 's directed first at the focus and then when you meet another person whom you realize has the same ego ideal , then you identify them , with them by a kind of secondary erm secondary identification . |
| 25 | But even as early as St John 's Gospel ( undated but often hypothetically dated late in the first century — it can not be later ) the ‘ incarnation ’ implies a manifestation within time and history of the eternal Word of God . |
| 26 | You can almost tell just from the first time they 're doing their marking . |
| 27 | The leading group became 16 riders at Alsager , after 30 miles , and then split again on the first big climb of the day 15 miles later . |
| 28 | However , climbing sports differ from true climbers in that invariably they do not bloom until the second year wood , and then only on side shoots , and seldom repeat much after the first burst of bloom during June . |
| 29 | What about for traders I mean , erm obviously you ca n't really c er why you ca n't comment on the fact that er how your father o o can you comment on how your father actually moved here in the first place . |
| 30 | One ‘ sweetener ’ , deliberately leaked beforehand , is likely to be the widening of the 20 per cent income tax , which currently applies only to the first £2,000 of taxable income . |