Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [prep] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you can see , you can see already that the production rate is no where near good enough to meet the programme and if it 's only on the first part of the seventh floor , bearing in mind we 've got to be working on three floors at the same time , we 're only on the first part of the seventh floor and already we 've got overlaps on day Granted , it 's a major problem . |
| 2 | But that 's only in the first year , in the second year erm the percentage will reduce quite rapidly and we 're only spending half the second and third years . |
| 3 | ‘ That 's enough for the first time . ’ |
| 4 | But on the basis of evidence available now , it seems reasonable to conclude that class is not of the first importance in structuring our experiences of family life . |
| 5 | Britain is not in the first rank of energy-efficient nations , but , taking 1975 as 100 , the energy requirements backing each unit of GDP fell from 115 in 1970 to 81 in 1987 . |
| 6 | " I was followed today — and it 's not for the first time , either . " |
| 7 | We went in and we paid seven pounds for me and my mum to get in , we did n't pay for the kids cos if they know they 're gon na sit on your lap , they get in there for nothing , but once we get in there we give them their own chair anyway , providing you go in like it 's not in the first week , the following week when the show is quieter and not so many people going |
| 8 | In fact , the USA is always among the first destination to sell out , so if you 're thinking of going in summer '90 reserve your place A.S.A.P. |
| 9 | The card is still at the first row . |
| 10 | It is unlikely that he would have gone to a children 's home in the first place and stayed for as long as he did before fostering was tried . |
| 11 | The young MFI salesman who is only concerned in making sure the commission on your purchase accrues to him , not his colleague , has forgotten why he is there in the first place . |
| 12 | The first step is to check what is there in the first place . |
| 13 | Then it turned out to be rather unusually abundant and erm we now have the problem of trying to understand why it 's there in the first place . |
| 14 | that 's why , that 's why during the first World War , Germany made a categor categoric statement that Russia should start disarming , she was mobilising |