Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was , of course , now a great deal more interest in Eliot than in the play , but he had stipulated in advance that he was not to be subjected to any form of publicity : no press conferences , no interviews , no speeches ; as a result , he was much more relaxed at the first night and was even able to laugh at his own jokes . |
| 2 | When he split the data into two sub periods , he found that β 1 was only significantly positive during the first subperiod , that is , that the maturity effect is not stable over time . |
| 3 | It is difficult to see how the courts can scrupulously review the reasonableness of police discretion where the case comes up so long after the event when the wording in the Act is so very wide in the first place . |
| 4 | If it were not so false in the first place , I would agree with you . |
| 5 | Clearly , if the acquirer is not particularly efficient in the first place this response will simply result in more assets being controlled by an unimpressive management . |
| 6 | I also assume that there is an ellipted main verb , the past tense copula were , but this is not immediately apparent on a first reading . |
| 7 | But that wedding evidently did not take place , and in December 1753 it was Ann Bowden whom he rushed to the altar in Exeter , his bride being already heavily pregnant with the first of their many offspring . |
| 8 | Though not absolutely essential for a first draft version of a program , it is very important for later versions to be logically structured and easily readable so that they can be easily understood and modified by the author and others if required . |
| 9 | It cuts down a , er , er , risk which is perhaps not that high in the first place . |
| 10 | We have a 100ml sample size of Dry Skin Relief to give away absolutely free to the first 2500 readers whose names are drawn from the postbag . |
| 11 | A full cognitive understanding of the constancy of gender across time , space and circumstances is not reached until 8 or 9 years ( Kohlberg 1966 ) , but gender reassignment is usually only possible in the first two or three years ( Money and Ehrhardt 1972 ) . |
| 12 | New leys are usually very productive in the first two or three years . |
| 13 | Er , after that people starting going on leave , is is anybody out away due in the first week in August ? |
| 14 | Babies are n't very nice for the first couple of years of their lives either , though it is modern to say the opposite . |
| 15 | Although Mexico accounted in recent times for more than a third of the world 's production of silver , the extraction and working of the metal began there only late in the first millennium A.D. |
| 16 | The current year , the ninety three ninety four year I have figures only up to the end of December and in comparison to the previous full twelve months the number of applications is almost as high in the first three quarters of the year but the fee income is about half what had been received for the full previous year and that is the problem that we 're facing , that the number of applications , the amount of work is , is staying the same or is indeed increasing slightly , er but the fee income , because of the nature of the the applications and the fee regime that is charged , is actually falling off quite rapidly . |
| 17 | Bronchitis and other respiratory illnesses are significantly more common in the first year of life in children who have one or two smoking parents [ 12 ] . |