Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] [art] first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All SWIFTAIR items receive priority handling and separate sorting so that they meet the first available flight to the country of destination . |
| 2 | At this point it is sufficient to state that the estimates are based on high quality data supplied by The Scotch Whisky Association 's nine largest companies and they provide the first published attempt to quantify the wider economic significance of this important industry . |
| 3 | At the time of writing I have not been able to hear any of the discs , but they include the first integral recording of the ten Mahler Symphonies complete sets of Brahms , Beethoven and Shostakovich , Stravinsky , Gershwin and Copland , plus concertos with Serkin , Stern and Francescatti . |
| 4 | The aim was to help climbers Dave Harries and Mick Hardwick acclimatise before they attempted the first British ascent of the Polish Route on Annapurna I. |
| 5 | The Wright bothers did this when they developed the first operational airplane . |