Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [coord] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | But their strength as vehicles for practice or as a first amp for a budding shredder would be difficult to challenge . |
| 2 | Potted game is most delicious and delicate with hot thin crisp brown toast for tea or as a first course at lunch . |
| 3 | The entrance is by a flight of steps and from the first floor . |
| 4 | It reminded her painfully of Jordan and for the first time she thought about how she was never going to touch him again . |
| 5 | She accepted a glass of water and for the first time looked round in order to take in the room and the people before her . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , certain landlords tend to abuse rights of access and as a first step the tenant should ensure that the right is subject to reasonable notice and may only be exercised at reasonable times , except of course in cases of emergency . |
| 7 | For many years , both in the days of glassfibre and for the first few years of plastic , there was little variety in the shape of boats in general recreational use . |
| 8 | Tylers the Company that won the tender when Crawley District Council put it out of a bunch of gangsters and on the first of February Crawley District Council awarded under C C T their refuse contract to Tylers as the cheapest tenderer . |
| 9 | He met the descendants of Lascar seamen or other immigrants who settled into Liverpool and for the first time saw the need for justice to an immigrant community . |
| 10 | Distantly she could feel the tremor of a heart still recognizably her own — though whether it shook with terror or from the first stirrings of a ferocious excitement was hard to distinguish now . |
| 11 | Lipson and colleagues subsequently report ( May 22 , p 1352 ) from Australia a girl born with multiple congenital defects to a mother , who before conception and for the first 5 weeks of gestation , had used a topical liquid preparation of 0.05% tretinoin in 45% alcohol . |
| 12 | What some writers now term the ‘ widening gap ’ between the rich and the poor , both within countries and between the First and the Third Worlds , might tempt us to subscribe pessimistically to the view that the countries of the Third World are passive victims of the exercise of First World hegemon countries ' power . |
| 13 | On the contrary he was assured , by Mr Bloch in person and by the first of the letters dated 19 October 1984 that Twogates were not in any way challenging his right to remain in occupation of the premises … under the provisions of his existing underlease . |
| 14 | In 457 , when she was already fighting on two fronts , in Egypt and in the first Peloponnesian War , Athens made an alliance with Segesta ( ML 37 ) . |
| 15 | Leaving the rest of community care aside , the admissions to our part three E P H s were thirteen in July , twelve in August and in the first twenty eight days of September , just four . |
| 16 | The second norwegian half was bloody excellent from Norway and for the first time a norwegian team wins a away in eastern Europe . |
| 17 | The only other official site I used was in Isafjördur but in the first week of June , at minus five degrees , I had been alone . |
| 18 | Now those other products are finally in production and for the first time Excel is going to be judged upon its merits rather than its laurels . |
| 19 | He made no announcement until 19 October , and perhaps did not even close his own mind until no more than a week earlier , but on 3 October , the same day that the Italian attack was eventually launched , he went to Bournemouth and for the first time in seven years addressed the Conservative Party Conference . |
| 20 | On both his visits to Jerusalem and on the first visit to Amman Baker also met with Palestinian representatives , and he held talks with the main Palestinian pre-conference negotiators , Hanan Ashrawi , Faisal al-Husseini , Zakaria al-Agha and Sari Nusseibah , in Washington on Oct. 10-11 . |
| 21 | Many of the hotels in this brochure do continue to provide waiter serve , although some of these will have buffet for breakfast and for the first course of main meals . |
| 22 | There , she had been happy in Pakistan ; she had been happy in the Peckham house at least for the first year ; she had been happy working for Graham ; she 'd been enthusiastically interested at college and during the first two years after she had qualified ; she had been completely delighted when she had got the job she now had : a tenants ' association garden in a dreadful estate in Hackney , but where she , with a community group , had planned the garden from scratch and had made a small desert blossom like a rose . |
| 23 | It pushes back , to a disconcertingly early period in Pound 's life , the first signs of that aridity , that closing of the doors of perception , which — drastically arrested and reversed though it was , at Pisa and through the first years at St Elizabeth 's — reasserted itself and wreaked the desolation of Thrones . |