Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv prt] to [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This means that garment workers in the Third World who benefited from the search for cheap labour by the TNCs in the past , can no longer assume that their jobs will always be safe from relocation back to the First World ( Elson , in Elson and Pearson , 1989 ) . |
| 2 | students of bones , a jocose reference back to the first description of Mrs Podsnap ( OMF i 2 ) as a ‘ fine woman for Professor Owen , quantity of bone , neck and nostrils like a rocking horse … |
| 3 | We combine these by choosing just a few random points in them , say two or three , and copying from the first string up to the first point ; then copying from the second up to the second point ; then copying from the first again ; and so on , switching between them at each point . |
| 4 | The case method had become adopted as the dominant method of legal study in the elite American law schools in the period up to the First World War . |
| 5 | It roots very easily , and propagation is done by taking the cuttings and planting them , embedding the stalk up to the first node , that is the point where the next set of leaves grow . |
| 6 | The Pontins League includes the reserve teams of most of the North 's top clubs , with Everton gaining promotion back to the first division last season after being relegated 12 months previously . |
| 7 | I have played all the way through to the First Division , where we lasted only one season before relegation . |
| 8 | They 've won their way through to the first round of the FA Cup where they 'll be away to West Bromwich Albion . |
| 9 | An interesting feature of the mill at Lower Glenastle is an earth ramp up to the first floor . |
| 10 | The only way up to the first floor from inside the works was via a ladder , which had started life as one of The Salisbury Volunteer Fire Brigade escapes , probably acquired by Mr. Farr during his service as a fireman in the early years of the century . |
| 11 | He puffed his way up to the first floor and , finding the outer door open , knocked on the inner one . |
| 12 | He led the way up to the first landing , where Charlie had had his bedsit . |