Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] the first [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps only the first Test between New Zealand and South Africa in 1952–53 can rank with it , when each side had four players whose surname started with the letter M. South Africa had McGlew , McLean , Murray and Mansell , while the New Zealanders fielded Meuli , Miller , Mooney and Moir . |
| 2 | So perhaps the first thing about that continuum is that none of them are right or wrong we all dis-represent the ways of behaving and it 's very much a personal choice which one will use at one stage . |
| 3 | I started to read newspapers and magazines more , and , for just about the first time in my life , I began to take an interest in current affairs . |
| 4 | However , shortly afterwards the first meeting of a newly formed all-party Supreme National Council broke up in disarray after the members had failed to reach agreement on any issue . |
| 5 | He drop-kicked the telegram away , went out for a drink and turned up months later on the first day of filming amiable as an old soldier . |
| 6 | Probably not the first choice of the new Labour arts minister . |
| 7 | Schools which are already doing very well are probably not the first priority for Compact . |
| 8 | Schools which are already doing very well are probably not the first priority for Compact . |
| 9 | Ahead of the voting 110 of the Supreme Soviet 's 450 deputies — members of the radical Democratic Bloc uniting the parliamentary groups from the nationalist Rukh organization , the Ukrainian Language Society and the new Republican Party ( founded on April 30 ) — had walked out of the chamber in protest at Ivashko 's candidacy , on the grounds that he was also currently the first secretary of the Ukrainian Communist Party ( CP ) , and that the acting Speaker of the chamber had refused to read out a statement by the Democratic Bloc to the effect that combining state and party posts in this way was impermissible . |
| 10 | Then take one step backwards again ( to the ‘ a ’ node ) and down the next route forwards ( to the ‘ c ’ node ) , and so on down the first route from each node , until the end of the graph is again reached ( i.e. the complete candidate string ljaclc ) . |
| 11 | Almost immediately the first breath of cooler air reached them . |
| 12 | Almost invariably the first step in the enforcement of a charge is for the debentureholders or their trustee to obtain the appointment of a receiver . |
| 13 | A set of 255 of the logged searches — those which were almost certainly the first search in a session or which bore no apparent relationship to the Previous search — were repeated by the experimenters on EXP CTL and a third system ( OSTEM ) which did no stemming at all . |