Example sentences of "[been] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stretford Bridge could have been little used after the first few months of the BCR 's life , when passengers presumably had to walk between there and Craven Arms — unless horse-drawn transport was provided along the road . |
| 2 | Labour , for example , wants next year to throw £20 million at a ‘ reading recovery scheme ’ for which there would be absolutely no need had reading been properly taught in the first place ( something which requires little in the way of ‘ resources ’ ) . |
| 3 | The defendants argued that deformity would have occurred as a result of the injury , whether or not it had been properly diagnosed on the first trip to hospital . |
| 4 | In theory this process had already been widely applied in the first half of the century ( see The Age of Revolution , chapter 8 ) but in practice it was enormously reinforced after 1850 by the triumph of liberalism . |
| 5 | In those days magic in its raw state had been widely available , and had been eagerly utilised by the First Men in their war against the Gods . |
| 6 | These had been directly elected for the first time in 1986 [ see p. 34305 ] . |
| 7 | Aspiration of a foreign body during use of an inhaler has been infrequently reported since the first report in 1981 . |
| 8 | In a very real way , I have found , it is the only place where things have been really understood for the first time . |
| 9 | The first is a practical issue : domain dictionaries are only of use if the domain has been accurately identified in the first place . |
| 10 | Firstly , specific dictionaries can only be relied upon if the domain of the test data has been accurately identified in the first place . |
| 11 | ‘ The wisdom of pricing gas at parity with imported oil has thus been officially recognised for the first time in Pakistan , despite being electorally unpopular . |
| 12 | In some countries , marginal land that was previously heath or moorland , as well as much pasture land , has been recently ploughed for the first time in centuries , with the resulting destruction of many archaeological sites . |