Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They were obviously carrying on long before the first Mrs Suvarov died , and I … |
| 2 | Morse looked at her now — perhaps properly for the first time . |
| 3 | Inaccurate or biased research deserves our criticism , but it is just as important to ask the prior questions of why researchers have chosen to study sex differences so intensively in the first place ( why does no-one study ‘ sex similarity ’ ? |
| 4 | But the volume of ‘ railway milk ’ traffic grew only slowly in the first decades of railway transport . |
| 5 | It is perhaps easier to work with the Germans , whom Britain fought so bitterly in the first half of this century , than with the French or the Italians , whose active roles in the Second World War were prematurely curtailed . |
| 6 | It 's all right for the first years now cos they 're never even gon na know about it . |
| 7 | Ken and Codron had got together professionally in the first place because of what he called their ‘ Grill and Cheese relationship ’ . |
| 8 | But perhaps the most punishing — and undeserved — losses had been suffered by von Zwehl 's VII Reserve Corps , which had done so brilliantly in the first days of the battle . |
| 9 | This has not in itself created a culture and ideology of consumerism ; for these have been in place for at least the last century and perhaps longer in the First World and among comprador classes elsewhere . |
| 10 | This artificial ash cliff is perhaps one of their last strongholds have also found refuge around our fire stations , protected from tramping feet and sheltered from chemical sprays these rare plants thrive in the damp salty margins alongside the ash lagoons all this within the boundaries with just a few of the country 's coal fired power stations but the need for sea walls of other coastal stations merely intake pipes to the coaling system , another world teams this is not a plant , fan worms have flowerlike mouth parts used to filter food from the sea water other worms use just two sticky tentacles to catch food shrimps forage over closely packed sea the delicate bodies of these printed vertebrates work as tiny water pumps , pulling water in one hole and pumping it through the other here two barnacles feed in the gentle flow of water over the cooling pipes from the station Marine life quickly packs the underwater structures and is about to become too thick and sometimes affect the performance of the machinery barnacles belong to the same family as crabs and lobsters , but being in their adult life standing on their head which is fixed to the concrete they use their feet to filter the water and kick food into their mouths but if they ca n't move , how do they get there so quickly in the first place ? |
| 11 | He was deathly pale and obviously still in the first shock of grief but it had taken him differently . |
| 12 | Within a month he knew almost as much about oven temperatures , controls , rising yeast and the correct mixture of flour to water as either of the two assistants , and as they were dealing with the same customers as Charlie was on his barrow , sales on both dropped only slightly during the first quarter . |
| 13 | The authors of the remarkable study quoted so extensively in the first part of this chapter themselves point out that |
| 14 | This makes it possible to study subtle processes of coordination : for example , when words are repeated they are generally pronounced less clearly after the first time , but only if they are being used to refer to the same thing . |
| 15 | GAELIC , Doric and English will come together theatrically for the first time later this month , when tri-lingual theatre makes its debut at Broadford , Skye . |
| 16 | GAELIC , Doric and English will come together theatrically for the first time later this month , when tri-lingual theatre makes its debut at Broadford , Skye . |
| 17 | Roddy Grant went one better midway through the first half , deflecting David Byrne 's low driven cross past Maxwell with the toe of his outstretched boot . |
| 18 | That apart , we should bear in mind that roses vary greatly in their ability to bloom more or less continuously after the first flush . |
| 19 | well why did she come and live down here in the first place ? |
| 20 | What is interesting about this is that they clearly do not know the history of the form ; they are unaware that the rule was made so rigidly in the first place to suit the whims of anti-feminists . |
| 21 | ‘ They went out together twice after the first meeting . |
| 22 | Two species of butterfly fish have been observed to swim slowly backwards at the first hint of trouble , making their false eyes seem even more real . |
| 23 | The accounts which had been submitted to the plaintiffs had dealt not only with the first defendant 's costs , charges and expenses but also with the receivers ' receipts and payments . |
| 24 | I enjoyed ‘ Futility ’ very much as it is poem with a message for all people and like most of Wilfred Owen 's poems it is timeless and has a meaning not only for the first World War but for wars to come . |
| 25 | Not long after the first Love Feast plans were made for the building of a Methodist Chapel , facing the village green and just behind where St Mark 's Church now stands . |
| 26 | ( As for the war metaphor itself , that began to appear not long after the first world war stopped . ) |
| 27 | For The Silmarillion at least , though not published till 1977 , four years after its author 's death , was in existence as a ‘ narrative structure ’ not long after the First World War , while a version of it was submitted to George Allen & Unwin for publication forty years before it eventually came out . |
| 28 | Golding 's Lord of the Flies ( 1954 ) is in the third person , though like Defoe 's most famous novel it is about an island marooning ; but Rites of Passage ( 1980 ) — the first of the Tarpaulin trilogy — is a memoir-novel , composed not just in the first person but in a pastiche of the English of the Napoleonic wars , especially in its sea-terms — a sort of ‘ sub-Jane Austen language ’ , as he has breezily put it . |
| 29 | Pre-construction work is already underway on the first phase , a 328,000 sq ft building set on a 20 acre green field site within Edinburgh Park , due for completion in Autumn 1995 . |
| 30 | Community care also highlights one of the fundamental flaws of charters — there is little point being able to complain about a service if it simply is not there in the first place . |