Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [prep] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wrote to me saying that in this place she found it possible to forgive for the first time and then return home to seek reconciliation . |
| 2 | It was relatively easy to do in the first years of the regime , with a war- and hunger-cowed populace , a subsistence-level economy , and a country cut off from the outside world . |
| 3 | Impossible to say of the first move , it was her will , and not to extend that to what followed , or reason is gone mad . ’ |
| 4 | Midiscan for Windows is due to ship in the first week of July , with Macintosh and Atari versions following next year . |
| 5 | Opener Atherton was due to play in the first Test at Calcutta before being forced out on the morning of the match because of illness . |
| 6 | Why do they think trains are so hard to spot in the first place ? |
| 7 | If someone 's natural breathing is already shallow , that person is much more likely to panic in the first place . |
| 8 | The aeroplane is due to fly for the first time in 1995 and , once certified safe , should be flying passengers by 1997 . |
| 9 | Unless he has a part to play he is unlikely to attend after the first appearance . |
| 10 | If you have a weekend free , you can do what many west Berliners are now able to do for the first time since 1952 — simple drive into the country and enjoy the landscape of Brandenburg . |
| 11 | The thing had died , and for its death they could also find no reason … no more than they could find a reason for how it was able to live in the first place . |
| 12 | At this stage nearly a month had elapsed since the watercolour , so it was important to return to the first study to establish some kind of modus operandi for the oil . |
| 13 | A RECENT agreement between the Midland Railway Trust at Butterley — and the Narrow Gauge Railway Association , means that visitors to the Midland Railway Centre are now able to travel on the first stages of the Golden Valley Light Railway at no extra charge . |
| 14 | Consider why it should be that A and B are difficult to discriminate in the first place . |
| 15 | Among the ‘ do n't knows ’ were Mr Paul Dean and Mr Andrew Bingham , who will be eligible to vote for the first time . |
| 16 | I found it very difficult to get past the first fleet but when I did the game became more enjoyable especially as the 256 colour graphics match most games out today . |
| 17 | To support a Labour government for the sake of an illiberal reform would be difficult to explain in the first place ; and it would become more difficult still when people saw how the reform worked in practice . |
| 18 | ‘ Is that one of the reasons why you were keen to invest in the first place , even one of the reasons why you decided to back the new housing development ? ’ |
| 19 | Neither Hugh Dundas , his wife ( who is my sister ) , nor their American partner Don Tafner were at all keen to run in the first place . |
| 20 | Deliveries of the new jet — which is designed to tap the market for business aircraft with an intercontinental range — are due to begin in the first quarter of 1991 . |
| 21 | ‘ You remind me of a wild animal sometimes , poised ready to flee at the first sight of a hunter 's gun . ’ |
| 22 | Beside them , the modern tractor sheds and dairies looked ready to collapse in the first breeze . |
| 23 | His impassive , fierce stare reminded her of an owl squatting on a fence post , watchful and ready to plunge at the first rustle in the undergrowth . |