Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was also a prime mover in the bid to get better pay for West Indian cricketers , putting in much work as the first secretary of the West Indian Players ' Association . |
| 2 | Walpole , who has been traditionally and perhaps wrongly regarded as the first British Prime Minister , always took pains to deny that he occupied such a position . |
| 3 | So just skim through the first ten lines then eleven to the end really concentrate on . |
| 4 | And I only ever went to the first reunion after graduation . ’ |
| 5 | In that case the solutions that I have so far given to the first equation would no longer be acceptable , but one could take x=1 , y=2 , and z=1 . |
| 6 | Lastly , it make the base for construction of a large scenario — a first short at identifying , with least danger of short sight ( though perhaps roughly drawn in the first stages ) , the major issues to be treated as priorities for action . |
| 7 | A second dimension , to serve as the horizontal axis , is selected from the next highest scoring constructs provided that this is not highly correlated with the first choice . |
| 8 | He not only got through the first round but he reached the final again ! |
| 9 | The morpheme liver is not explicitly stored in the first lexicon distributed with the ANLT . |
| 10 | There were no rebleeding episodes in the group which were not actively bleeding after the first treatment . |
| 11 | Devitrification is almost universal in ancient glasses which were usually badly made in the first place and have had plenty of time to crystallize ; the result , however is , often very beautiful , though these old glasses have become very weak . |
| 12 | Then there is the maddening fact that , of the five great investigative Ws ( who ? what ? where ? when ? and why ? ) , we can still only account for the first four in the matter of the Watergate break-in . |
| 13 | And therefore , you begin to question whether it ever really happened in the first place , do n't you . |
| 14 | When a city rules an empire , a historian with any curiosity will ask whether the imperial city was specially geographically favoured from the first . |
| 15 | 1.3 The premises Unit no of the Centre more particularly defined in the First Schedule The premises must be readily identifiable and provision in the particulars is mainly for a unit or postal number to be inserted . |
| 16 | ‘ They are given a topic straight away to revise for the first exam — which is at 9am the following morning . |
| 17 | It is also now analysing for the first time in a quantitative way the changing social and cultural characteristics of small towns . |
| 18 | He also publicly acknowledged for the first time that he was a recovering " drug addict " who had behaved in a " degrading and outrageous " way . |
| 19 | When we are developing an artist on an international basis , success does n't necessarily happen in the first or second album . |
| 20 | THE TROUBLE with all this ‘ comeback ’ and ‘ reunion ’ malarkey is it can often destroy a band 's reputation or , worse still , make you realise they were n't much cop in the first place . |
| 21 | Both knew that the other knew that Steve and Maria Luisa had n't just met for the first time . |
| 22 | Then overnight they redraft them because they did n't really matter in the first place . |
| 23 | In fact , I had n't even got to the first stair before the phone went . |
| 24 | You have n't even got over the first hurdle yet and you 're ready to quit ! |
| 25 | Two , our institute has its own hall and as this is now about seventy years old and was not particularly well built in the first place , you will understand that it costs us a good deal in money and effort to literally keep the roof over our heads . |
| 26 | This is quite properly reflected in the first signal from $ Corps after Macmillan 's visit , referring to his " advice " that Tolbukhin should be approached about the handing over of the Cossacks . |
| 27 | These improvements in mortality are now almost totally confined to the first year of life and the years after age 65 . |
| 28 | This was the activity with which they came to be most closely identified in the first fifty years of their existence . |
| 29 | Accessibility is not so important with the small , closed conferences because the participants are usually either highly motivated in the first place ( because of specialist interest or commitment ) or their employers require them to go or at least agree that they should . |
| 30 | Indeed , the tradition of personal contact between the Council and the public , the accessibility of local government officials , and the identifiable nature of the officials and councillors involved , gave the whole thing a highly personal tone to the point where some of the wider issues were obscured , or else never raised in the first place . |