Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is nearly always impossible to raise the first quote . |
| 2 | If the substrate S can be used for something else , it is clearly efficient to control the first step in the synthesis , S→A , rather than , say , the last one , E→P , because in the latter case E would accumulate . |
| 3 | today this becomes the first railway shadow franchise , its operations hived off into a separate company ready to be sold . |
| 4 | There were a number of clues available to Robson : if West had still held the guarded queen of clubs he would almost certainly have kept and exited with his last spade ; if he had held both the king and queen of clubs he would have been equally likely to win the first club with the queen ; and , from what had happened so far , it looked as though West had started with more clubs than his partner . |
| 5 | I was very interested to receive the first edition of Nonesuch and to read that its name was derived from a flower connected with the City of Bristol — as a member of a 17th-century dance team , I had only previously come across Nonesuch as the name of a dance . |
| 6 | Those weeks , not seeing him , wondering , too proud to make the first move . |