Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [adv] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The card is still at the first row . |
| 2 | The newspaper industry was therefore among the first to make use of the development of scientific surveys for measuring opinion . |
| 3 | Its restaurant and coffee bar are now on the first floor but once were on the ground floor where the bank is now . |
| 4 | I 've got an idea they 're a Cornish family and that 's why the old lady was here in the first place . ’ |
| 5 | Linford was there for the first time . |
| 6 | Bryan Thomson 's match was already at the first tee when Patrick strolled up with the bag of clubs over his shoulder . |
| 7 | Why do you think the body was there in the first place ? |
| 8 | So , establishment for staphylococcusorius is often not an important feature because in the majority of infections we 're talking about an endogenous infection , the organism was there in the first place . |
| 9 | When the stem has two syllables the stress is sometimes on the first , sometimes on the second syllable of the stem . |
| 10 | The third layer is directly above the first , the fourth directly above the second , and so on . |
| 11 | Young people under RCM care were therefore among the first to qualify for release . |
| 12 | and like the thing is obviously like the first realise there on a and they try to stop it , why are you stopping for , remember you are in the British army , if you disobey orders you 'll get a court marshall really started laying onto them , and like they 've started again and like the first bloke obviously got to the fucking water , cos he 's stopped again , one man one sides shouting out and round the other side shouting out and they have they 've all gone in , they must of thought fuck it and they 've all just fucking marched into the sea , and we marched them in , tent was only about that much above water , and we 've lasted thought , this is the thing that got me , he , he shouted at him , cos we , we , we managed to get them and that , he said right , right , go in , go in and tell them to come out , what , I said what , can you just pop in and tell them to come out , I said over here sarge , he said you disobey an order |
| 13 | Coal-carrying was thus from the first , and has remained both in Britain and on the Continent , one of the basic economic functions of the railway . |
| 14 | Premier John Major and Japan 's foreign minister were yesterday among the first to remind Clinton of America 's responsibilities . |
| 15 | Most contemporary feminist politics is somewhere between the first and second stages , that is , it oscillates between deploring and celebrating difference , between the negative and positive motivations I outlined above , without realistically expecting — yet — to transcend current gender divisions . |