Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The last buildings to be completed were those of the Banca Commerciale which were only finished in the first quarter of the twentieth-century . |
| 32 | THE TROUBLE with all this ‘ comeback ’ and ‘ reunion ’ malarkey is it can often destroy a band 's reputation or , worse still , make you realise they were n't much cop in the first place . |
| 33 | For the rest , Friday turned out to be a bad day at Blackrock with Graham losing twice and McHugh and the Clarendon triple skipped by Mark Shannon all falling at the first hurdle . |
| 34 | How , I wondered , had the woodlands become so neglected in the first place ? |
| 35 | Perhaps come for the first time . |
| 36 | Accessibility is not so important with the small , closed conferences because the participants are usually either highly motivated in the first place ( because of specialist interest or commitment ) or their employers require them to go or at least agree that they should . |
| 37 | He was also a prime mover in the bid to get better pay for West Indian cricketers , putting in much work as the first secretary of the West Indian Players ' Association . |
| 38 | A second dimension , to serve as the horizontal axis , is selected from the next highest scoring constructs provided that this is not highly correlated with the first choice . |
| 39 | Devitrification is almost universal in ancient glasses which were usually badly made in the first place and have had plenty of time to crystallize ; the result , however is , often very beautiful , though these old glasses have become very weak . |
| 40 | In theory this process had already been widely applied in the first half of the century ( see The Age of Revolution , chapter 8 ) but in practice it was enormously reinforced after 1850 by the triumph of liberalism . |
| 41 | ( China , while not using its veto , nevertheless abstained , thus breaching for the first time the unanimity of the five permanent members of the Security Council in supporting resolutions on the Gulf crisis . |
| 42 | Roman troops as such scarcely appear after the first decade of the fifth century in any source , except the Notitia Dignitatum , which appears to be an idealized list drawn up in the 420s , and not a statement of the reality of the imperial fighting forces . |
| 43 | Just picked for the first trial . |
| 44 | The buyers nevertheless claimed under the first contract damages based on the difference between the contract price and market price on the date of the breach . |
| 45 | The environment working group of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) is finally to meet for the first time — 20 years after it was first constituted . |
| 46 | Although the classification notation will subsequently incorporate the notation of the second facet , the document will be placed physically according to the first facet ; that is , this document will either be placed with other documents on mathematics or with other documents on primary schools . |
| 47 | Both knew that the other knew that Steve and Maria Luisa had n't just met for the first time . |
| 48 | The defendants argued that : ( a ) The proviso quoted above came within the first test enunciated by Lord Reid in the Esso case ( see p 7 above ) ie that it did not deprive the plaintiff of any freedom which he would otherwise have had ; accordingly that it did not operate as a restraint of trade and therefore that it was effective on the admitted facts to terminate the plaintiff 's entitlement to commission . |
| 49 | It goes without saying — so we 'll say it — that STDs are best avoided in the first place by routine sexual hygiene and precautions . |
| 50 | ‘ No , no ; I think we will just stick to the first choice . |
| 51 | Just look at the first page . |
| 52 | She rubbed at her abused flesh , desperately grasping at the first straw to float into her mind . |
| 53 | Never , ever was the item you desperately needed in the first bag , second bag … |
| 54 | The guidance will be similar to that already produced for the first phase of general SVQs . |
| 55 | The effect is generally noted in the first week when a gradual reduction in the frequency of wetting is noted . |
| 56 | A thief just walked into the first floor office at Newman Lane industrial estate and then made off . |
| 57 | This is normally found in the first part of sleep ( see below ) . |
| 58 | Terrified commuters were already reeling from the first explosion which went off in a flower bed at at 8.39am when the second , larger Semtex blast came 90 minutes later . |
| 59 | He had already scored in the first meeting at Roker Park . |
| 60 | ‘ They are given a topic straight away to revise for the first exam — which is at 9am the following morning . |