Example sentences of "first [noun sg] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm because my grandmother wanted to see her first grandchild before she died . |
| 2 | I hate doing that , drives me up the wall the first bit cos I 've got all them houses in the first bit have n't I ? |
| 3 | Now there 's a title which says what it is , but booksellers should beware of Longman 's Think Ahead to First certificate where the sequel ( Think First Certificate ) was published first . |
| 4 | However , in most cases , the private person , even if not acting in the course of a business , is still really entering into a commercial transaction and it seems more likely that there will be more cases than in the first category where it will be reasonable that he accept some liability . |
| 5 | The thickness does not decrease linearly , but follows an exponential curve , with the thickness decreasing much more over the first kilometre than the second , and so on . |
| 6 | I thought that once , when I did my first removal because the boss was away , and I went to a house wh and they had more more mirrors in that house than I s ever seen since , and because I was only learning and I had n't been taught I put all the other furniture in and worried about the mirrors and worried about the mirrors and worried about the mirrors till at the end there was so much furniture in there was n't room to put the mirrors on the floor and I had to come back a second time to actually do that because I did n't dare put them anywhere else . |
| 7 | He had gone halfway across the first field when he heard a cry behind him . |
| 8 | For 55 per cent of social workers it was their first case while the remaining 45 per cent had dealt with a case before ; 90 per cent of police claimed prior experience of investigation . |
| 9 | I shall refer to the first case as Mr. A. He wrote to me in March saying : |
| 10 | He had not got a result on the first case because he had not been sharp enough . |
| 11 | Riddick Bowe , who fights world champion Evander Holyfield here on Friday night , is almost certain to renege on the deal to give Lewis the first defence if he wins . |
| 12 | Mr Peter Bergg , aged 47 , is also running in his first election although he has previously stood in Sedgefield district council elections . |
| 13 | His majorities were not always as big as he would have liked , notably in 1923 , his first election as Prime Minister , when he rashly asked for 10,000 and got 6000 ; but he was never in remote danger of losing the seat . |
| 14 | so I wo n't be able to pay the first payment cos , you know ai n't got no money . |
| 15 | So I wo n't be able to pay the first payment cos you know I ai n't got no money . |
| 16 | The committee was still discussing its response to crucial aspects of the first inspection when the next inspection process commenced in May this year . |
| 17 | Jordan says he picked up his first guitar when he was four years old . |
| 18 | ‘ He gave me my first winner when I started training in 1987 , and today was the 100th race of his career and his 10th victory . ’ |
| 19 | There is no doubt that the person entitled to goods may enter and take them from the land of the first taker if the taker himself wrongfully put them there . |
| 20 | Fifteen ( 83 per cent ) of the older children assisted in the first assessment as did 23 ( 77 per cent ) parents , foster parents and residential workers . |
| 21 | Even the Government President of Upper Bavaria felt compelled to admit that the relief about Hitler 's survival was not unanimous , but that ‘ part of the population would have welcomed the success of the assassination attempt in the first instance because they would have hoped for an earlier end to the war from it ’ . |
| 22 | Childebert survived in the first instance because of the loyalty of his father 's followers , and later because of the intervention of his uncle Guntram . |
| 23 | In the first instance where the police officer dealing with the offender can not prove an intent , as point 5 above , he should consider this point . |
| 24 | The procedure is very informal ; a short note or even a telephone call will suffice in the first instance as we are mainly interested in concepts rather than with detailed descriptions . |
| 25 | Among the Buid , momentary expressions of anger may be viewed in the first instance as indicative of a momentary desire to harm another , but if such conduct becomes persistent or habitual it is almost always reinterpreted as being caused by hostile mystical forces and thus as not being under the deliberate control of the individual . |
| 26 | Being LCPs ( Local Collaborative Projects ) , the LXs have been U63 pump-primed by the DES and TA to act in the first instance as venture companies designed so that collaborating partners — they may be translators , interpreters , printers , camera crews , copy- writers , export consultants , marketing advisers , experts in cultural briefings etc , — collectively address a market they could not individually satisfy . |
| 27 | Candidates are registered in the first instance as supervised postgraduate students . |
| 28 | Applicants are registered in the first instance as supervised postgraduate students ; this initial period will count towards the minimum period of study for the degree . |
| 29 | Speak to your line manager in the first instance if you want to find out whether you can change the hours you work . |
| 30 | A warrant may be issued at first instance if the court is satisfied by evidence on oath that a summons is unlikely to secure the attendance of a reluctant witness ( MCA 1980 , s97(2) ) . |