Example sentences of "[adv] [det] [noun] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well we 've got ten pages to do , we 're only half way through the first page man ! |
| 2 | Enthusiasts were less surprised that much of that investment went sour through design faults and technical failures , and grieved that so little thought was given to the simple , old fashioned matter of looking out , the deprivation of forward and backward view that had encouraged so much travel on the first generation of multiple units allegedly being due to the unions not liking the public seeing their men at work . |
| 3 | As one reads , for example , on the memorial at Beaconsfield , the names of the three Dales , the four Rolfes , the three Westons , and the six Childs , one is forcefully reminded of the overwhelming sense of personal loss in communities that were devastated by the death of so many sons in the First World War . |
| 4 | He became aware that the Boulton & Watt steam-engines installed in so many factories in the first quarter of the nineteenth century could no longer be coaxed to produce more power to meet ever-growing demands , and he came up with a very elegant solution which prolonged the useful life of these engines by many years . |
| 5 | Thus this work on the first century of Ottoman history bears the marks of the great disappointment at the collapse of Bayezid 's empire . |
| 6 | and it 's called mediant because it lies exactly half way between the first note and the fifth note which is also a very important note in the scale , which we 'll come to in a minute . |
| 7 | But it is no longer these stars of the first magnitude that hold his fancy . |
| 8 | Over the late 1960s , however , these elements began to weaken : the largely once-for-all gains from the first three had been absorbed whilst the fourth was ceasing to hold . |
| 9 | The following day Lord Francis Douglas , who was to die later that week on the first ascent of the Matterhorn , made the second ascent , accompanied by Peter Taugwalder , the guide , Joseph Vian . |
| 10 | This may change later this year with the first ‘ second-generation ’ RDS set incorporating RDS-EON ( enhanced other networks ) function . |
| 11 | The South African President , F W de Klerk announced he would meet President Bush later this month in the first visit to the United States by a South African leader in four decades . |
| 12 | The system of financial ownership does not generate as much risk in the first place , while the state handles much of what does occur . |
| 13 | We include here some notes on the first production but subsequent directors may find many different ways of presenting the text . |
| 14 | Okay but we have plenty more goals around the First Division yesterday and you 'll be able to see those in a couple of moments . |
| 15 | But once the West no longer needed Mr Ceausescu 's anti-Soviet services , his policy of deliberate isolation narrowed his options and led earlier this year to the first signs of internal party dissent . |
| 16 | But once the West no longer needed Mr Ceausescu 's anti-Soviet services , his policy of deliberate isolation narrowed his options and led earlier this year to the first signs of internal party dissent . |
| 17 | For at least some people of the first generation , Creole has symbolic value as a language of black identity , and those individuals may try to maintain their " Caribbeanness " by keeping their speech as close to Creole as possible . |
| 18 | 2.1 The first is the move to comprehensive schools in the fifties and sixties , which broadened the ability range of the learners facing language teachers in schools , from the top 30% perhaps in the days of the grammar school to virtually all pupils in the first two years of secondary school today . |
| 19 | The prestigious Antiquaires à Paris group of dealers who specialise in eighteenth-century French furniture albeit with many sidelines is back again this year for the first time since 1986 , although with nothing to compare with the extravagantly decorated and richly stocked collective stand which caused so much jealousy then . |
| 20 | We can not have a Briton winning the US Masters for the first time again , nor a Briton putting the green jacket on yet another Briton for the first time again . |
| 21 | ‘ I would n't put forward any conclusions in the first week of the scheme , it has to settle down . ’ |
| 22 | On the other hand , some may never have placed such emphasis on independence in their lives , or never felt that they had very much independence in the first place . |
| 23 | A London Christian , who had spent fifteen years in many branches of the occult before his conversion at the Luis Palau mission at Queens Park Rangers soccer stadium in 1985 , said : ‘ In my experience , there are not too many differences between the first group of witches and satanists . |
| 24 | These feelings — homesickness for a place you could n't wait to leave ( Manchester ) , nostalgia for a time that was never any good in the first place ( adolescence ) — were why the music of the Smiths refracted the quandaries of the eighties like no other . |