Example sentences of "the [noun] of [noun sg] [verb] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | This he had done , according to the story , by finding the weight of water displaced first by the crown and then by an equal weight of pure gold , the measurement being that of weighing the water displaced from a full bowl . |
| 2 | Again , it seems that the emotion of horror came first , and the dream was constructed to accommodate it . |
| 3 | It is significant that in ( David Raymond ) Smith the Court of Appeal had first to perform some surgery on the relationship of mens rea to the actus reus of criminal damage to reach the desired conclusion and it is therefore unsurprising that adverse comment was expressed by some of their Lordships in Morgan . |
| 4 | In Europe the rate of accumulation peaked first in the early 1960s , then a decade later at a slightly lower level . |
| 5 | When the hobby of metal detecting first came to Britain in 1970 , few people could have foreseen how popular and successful it was to become . |
| 6 | The Secretary of State had first to rule that the building was of outstanding architectural interest , which Michael Heseltine had done . |
| 7 | The idea of road pricing first surfaced in the early Sixties . |