Example sentences of "first it [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lérins itself was important in two ways ; first it played a major part in the promotion of monastic ideals in Gaul , and second it trained a succession of bishops who made a substantial impact on the Gallo-Roman , and later Frankish , Church . |
| 2 | It worked , and at first it seemed a perfect arrangement . |
| 3 | At first it assumed a sallow glow ; then , during the cold spring , it went all the way from hot-dog mustard to peanut butter . |
| 4 | At first it appeared a good development for the island — the Germans promised to look after poor patients with tuberculosis and , in return , were given many favourable concessions such as duty-free importation of equipment and the right to expropriate land . |
| 5 | Although Bekenstein 's hypothesis that black holes have a finite entropy requires for its consistency that black holes should radiate thermally , at first it seems a complete miracle that the detailed quantum-mechanical calculations of particle creation should give rise to emission with a thermal spectrum . |