Example sentences of "first [vb past] [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first arose out of the practice announced in Mr. Brittan 's statement of 30 November 1983 of seeking the views of the judiciary on the tariff for a prisoner when he had been detained in custody for about three years . |
| 2 | Cold fusion is the brainchild of Charles Frank , who first came up with the idea in 1947 . |
| 3 | And Mark S , as the one who first came up with the idea , what would you like to say about it ? |
| 4 | Mr Fitton , backed by merchant banker Henry Ansbacher , first came up with the offer six weeks ago . |
| 5 | It 's been a lot of hard work but I knew that it would be when I first came on to the Tour . |
| 6 | The cost was less than the price of an Amstrad PCW 8256 when it first came out onto the market all of those years ago . |
| 7 | Bending the runners is simple enough using a development of a technique , which I first came across in the book ‘ Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America ’ ( Adney & Chapelle , unfortunately long out of print ) , used by American Indians to form the stem pieces on birch bark canoes . |
| 8 | He found a scene effectively unchanged since the rubber-seekers first arrived there at the turn of the century . |
| 9 | The study of coronal bright points , first observed extensively during the Skylab mission , is also being significantly advanced . |
| 10 | It was from the first bound up with the establishment of a foreign ministry archive . |
| 11 | when we first started there on the course itself , typists first time we got into the erm it was the twenty sixth of erm of December . |
| 12 | Third , when facilities management first took off in the US , suppliers were dealing solely with mainframes , and could earn higher margins from significant economies of scale — several mainframes were centralised on one site , and could deal with the information technology requirements of many customers — and so the old bureau service was recreated under another name . |
| 13 | W w when you first er when you first went up onto the picket lines erm h how m many of you w were there then ? |
| 14 | Hilary Robarts said impatiently : ‘ But the body , when you first went back for the torch and saw her , you were certain she was dead ? ’ |
| 15 | Ironically , David first went out with the woman who was to change his life on a girl 's night in town . |
| 16 | He had reportedly insisted on resubmitting his resignation , first tendered shortly after the March 9 demonstration , despite a recommendation by the Serbian government that the Assembly should refuse it . |
| 17 | The novel , as I should have thought was tolerably well known , first appeared serially in the Revue de Paris ; then came the prosecution for obscenity ; and only after the acquittal was the work published in book form . |
| 18 | Reich , born in 1897 , was thirty-two years old when the first part of The Sexual Revolution was published in 1929 ; Freud was already sixty-four years old when the notion of the death instincts first appeared in Beyond the Pleasure Principle in 1920 . |
| 19 | These last points may seem to imply a flagrant disregard of the well-known difficulty , first pointed out by the philosopher David Hume in the Treatise of Human Nature ( 1739 ) , of reasoning from ‘ is ’ to ‘ ought ’ ( Selby-Bigge ed. , 1952 , pp. 469–70 ) . |