Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the first [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most contemporary feminist politics is somewhere between the first and second stages , that is , it oscillates between deploring and celebrating difference , between the negative and positive motivations I outlined above , without realistically expecting — yet — to transcend current gender divisions . |
| 2 | The first ‘ official ’ race was held in 1972 and it has been held annually on the first or second Wednesday in May ever since . |
| 3 | At four he lost only on the first and last outings ( beaten narrowly on both occasions ) of a sixteen-race campaign . |
| 4 | The extra eight minutes in Maxim 's reading are accounted for almost entirely by the first and fourth movements ; the former lacks inner tension , while the latter sags alarmingly in the middle . |
| 5 | In 1970 , his hard times continued : not for the first or last time in his career , he found himself in trouble with the authorities , being disqualified twice , once when he was winning and once when he was in second place . |
| 6 | Our needs conflicted — not for the first or last time in our lives . |
| 7 | Yes , he was , said the Australian , not for the first or last time thinking on his feet . |
| 8 | This is when a phrase finishes on the second ( or weak ) and not on the first or third beat of a final bar . |
| 9 | Molla Gurani 's as kazasker ( an enlargement is given on p. 50 of the plates in Unver ) , for example , can not have been added before 845 , when he first came to the Ottoman lands , and was almost certainly added after 855 , when he held the kazaskerlik probably for the first and only time ( cf. below , pp. 169–71 ) , so that one can not be certain of the date when , or the circumstances in which , any of them was added . |
| 10 | Summing up on the first and second reasons , it is evident that the main objection to Article 86 legislation is that business does not relish the prospect of fines for abuse of monopoly power , because it would have to take competition policy more seriously in future . |
| 11 | Going back inside the house , the two staircases up to the first and second floors were dark as neither had windows , the only light available came from open bedroom doors . |
| 12 | Works by Hogarth hung in the gallery at Slains : the library contained ‘ a valuable numerous collection ’ , and Boswell renders one of his usual excellent off-the-cuff services to our understanding of eighteenth-century domestic arrangements : ‘ The noble owner has built of brick , along the square on the inside , a gallery , both on the first and second story , the house being no higher ; so that he has always a dry walk , and the rooms , to which formerly there was no approach but through each other , have now all separate entries from the gallery . ’ |
| 13 | Within Outer London , the experience of Bromley and of Newham are almost mirror images : Bromley did relatively badly in the first and third periods and well in the second , while Newham gained in the first and third periods , but had the smallest increase in the second . |
| 14 | Property centre chairman George Clark said : ‘ The majority of the properties being sold are priced at £80,000 or less , in other words , appealing most to the first or second-time buyer . |
| 15 | Why did costs of service provision for Inner London Boroughs go up relatively fast in the first and third periods and barely increase in the intermediate year ? |
| 16 | Bear slightly right across the first and second fields , go over a stile and bear slightly right across the third field , over another stile and across the right hand corner of the last field , going over a stile midway along the right hand boundary . |