Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [noun sg] [verb] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are small ripples , wind-blown , on the lake , where the water catches the first flashes of brilliance from the early sun . |
| 2 | This is illustrated by the RR format of instruction on the IBM 370 range , shown in Figure 3.8 ( a ) , where the result replaces the first operand . |
| 3 | ‘ As for the Handscomb case , the ratio decidendi was that a sentence of 27 years was so far beyond anything which the judiciary could have recommended as the appropriate tariff , that the decision to postpone the first review until 1991 was one which no reasonable Secretary of State could have reached . |
| 4 | He added that the decision marked the first nationalisation under a Thatcher government . |
| 5 | Rothstein deemed that the Act violated the First Amendment 's guarantee of freedom of expression , and stated that " in order for the flag to endure as a symbol of freedom in this nation , we must protect with equal vigour the right to destroy it and the right to wave it " . |
| 6 | Some organisations pay the whole cost ( especially where long distances are involved ) ; others expect the employee to pay and some state that the employee pays the first £ x and the company pays the rest . |
| 7 | This model assumes that an individual accepts the first job whose wage dominates the benefit level adjusted for the disutility of work ( see ( 6 ) and ( 7 ) ) . |
| 8 | This means that an applicant seeking a first interim order in care proceedings , whether or not it follows upon an emergency protection order , should file and serve on all respondents before the hearing statements of the evidence to be relied upon . |
| 9 | Accordingly , their Lordships did not agree with counsel that if the jury convicted the first appellant upon the basis that he was guilty as actor , they necessarily should have acquitted the second appellant . |
| 10 | If the focus process suggests one candidate in an earlier ‘ batch ’ than another , we can say that it is imposing a strong preference between those candidates ; so strong that the second one will only be considered at all if the reasoner decides the first is completely implausible . |
| 11 | If the semanticist takes the first tack , he soon finds himself in the business of adducing an apparently endless proliferation of senses of the simplest looking words . |
| 12 | If the horse jumps the first fence stickily , a smack on landing will sharpen him up . |
| 13 | Under the ASB approach , if the seller bears the first £5 of losses on £100 of securitised assets , a net asset of £5 is shown . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , as he began to recover from his operation , Mr Honecker clearly had to face the problem of the embassy refugees and the mass emigration , and the decision to let the first batch go was obviously his . |
| 15 | England 's record try-scorer held off his tackler , fed younger brother Tony on the loop and the 24-year-old celebrated the first brother partnership in an England line-up for 54 years by scoring in the left-hand corner . |
| 16 | Later , a change comes about , and a consensus supports the First Choice , which allows the forceful seizure of the goods , and the action , in accordance with the definition proffered earlier , is labelled ‘ evil ’ . |
| 17 | The applicant sought judicial review and an order directing the first bench to determine the information and relied upon section 9(2) of the Magistrates Courts Act 1980 . |
| 18 | But the company said the first three months of this year had started satisfactorily . |
| 19 | Detective Inspector Milsom said quietly , ‘ Because the doctor laid the first slice of the fillet — the piece that you do n't give to guests — to one side of the carving dish … |
| 20 | A customer returns a skirt because the zip broke the first time she wore it . |
| 21 | While the report describes the first two options as the most far-reaching and effective in the long term , it acknowledges that they would cause severe economic strains ( because of the dependence of the local economies on irrigated crops ) and that the required infrastructural improvements would be very expensive . |
| 22 | In the past , it was thought that language began when the child uttered the first word , but we now know that it begins with the first interactions and communication shortly after birth . |
| 23 | That 's asking an awful lot of people who seek no more than a relaxing pint or two , or more especially when the Bishop pulls the first pint of the day . |
| 24 | The men about me began to shout as the line reached the first houses and a cheer came back . |
| 25 | As the Austrian dominated the first eight races of the 16-race championship in defence of his world title , Hunt dominated the second half after Lauda 's horrific accident at the Nurburgring in August . |
| 26 | The youngest BCRS member , 3-year-old Daisy Nottingham 's look of horror as the train entered the first tunnel . |
| 27 | But as soon as a company takes the first tentative steps from data to information , its decision processes , management structure , and even the way its work gets done begin to be transformed . |
| 28 | Aspects of the work of Marslen-Wilson and Tyler ( 1980 ) which we discussed in Chapter 6 ( see section 6.5.1 ) strongly suggest that clause interpretation begins as soon as a listener hears the first part of the clause . |