Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the obligation to provide instruction about maintenance is to be limited only to the first occupier , it is likely that subsequent purchasers will require the information to be passed on every time the property is sold . |
| 2 | His financial transactions during the start-up period are listed below in the first column and are identified by capital letters . |
| 3 | And now to a village where the church bells have been rung properly for the first time in twenty years . |
| 4 | But she had a sudden change of heart and the pair were yesterday perched together for the first time . |
| 5 | It was the Saint Mary 's window though , which was considered best for the first class stamp . |
| 6 | Second , the Old English , descendants of settlers who had come over with the first wave of English conquest during the Middle Ages . |
| 7 | And the person who had sorted it together at Birmingham made sure that the next stop it was at , the waggons would be at the back end to leave in that town and this is what my father was doing by er er shunting as it was called , or making a train up to go from Nottingham to London , or some other place in the country , with up to fifty or sixty trucks behind it and they did n't want the trucks next to the engine to be dropped off at the first place and having to shove and push about in their marshalling yard . |
| 8 | His jacket was torn off during the first verse and his shirt during the second , then the Little Sweep realized he had made a monumental error and tried to tell the two schoolmasters not to remove his trousers . |
| 9 | Then none of this rot about wars and boundaries would have come up in the first place . ’ |
| 10 | We 're quite good at rearing them these days but even so their chances are hugely reduced by being picked up in the first place |
| 11 | Yet , when the think-tank was wound up at the first Cabinet meeting after the 1983 general election , not a single minister spoke up in its defence . |
| 12 | It has n't come out of a first aid . |
| 13 | Davis Cup nerves certainly got to them as they started their defence of a trophy they had only just won back for the first time since 1932 but full marks to the British challengers who gave of their best in terms of commitment and attitude . |
| 14 | In another case we have managed to eliminate the first galley stage completely The first setting is now carried out at the first page proof stage and even this will save around £50,000 per year — more than the cost of the entire system . |
| 15 | Further extensive trials were carried out before the first Hip and Thigh Diet was published in 1988 . |
| 16 | Analyses of covariance were carried out in the first study , and t tests were used in the second study . |
| 17 | Donna shivered and decided to head back to the car , not even sure why she had come here in the first place . |
| 18 | Some of these influences carried forward into the first fortnight of the campaign , though they faded towards the end . |
| 19 | Of course last year that did n't happen and last year hidden away in the first part of the er the budget papers was this cut in the amount of money going to each pupil erm in education in secondary school , so this year we are not doing that we 're going to meet the full cost of so in that sense the formula will be unchanged , and of course there 's growth er later in the budget and both primary and secondary schools in terms delegated budgets . |
| 20 | They should never have been developed separately in the first place . |
| 21 | Hewitt had only just broken through into the first team and gave a good account of himself in matches against Crewe and Chesterfield . |
| 22 | I was operated on for the first time when I was two or three weeks old . |
| 23 | So it 's automatically built in to the first life assured , but it is an option for the second if they want it . |
| 24 | They have done so in the first place because of the advantage of high space utilization on limited ground area ; an important asset to companies trying to make the best use of a high value industrial site with no room for extension . |
| 25 | The working leg is thrust outwards on the first beat of a bar , heels click and stamp to accent the appropriate beats . |
| 26 | The trove will be exhibited together for the first time at the Pierpont Morgan Library ( 9 December-4 April1993 ) , accompanied by an illustrated catalogue by William Voelkle and Roger Wieck , curator and associate curator , respectively , of the Morgan 's Department of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts . |
| 27 | Why had n't he said so in the first place ? |
| 28 | To many geographers the general statistical tendencies revealed above do not explain anything , and the use of industrial structure in this context is seen only as a first step in the analysis of spatial change . |
| 29 | Arm and back heights too , can be varied since they have to be built separately in the first place , and there is almost always a large range of covers available for the choosing within the price range . |
| 30 | and any appeals against valuation have to be made soon after the first council tax demands are received at the end of March . |